Welcome to the FPL Gameweek 3 Captaincy metrics blog. This week is an interesting one for captaincy as Liverpool are playing Arsenal. The main captaincy options include Haaland, Bruno Fernandes, Cunha, Joao Pedro, and Chris Wood. Let’s see who comes out on top of the captaincy metrics.
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Total metrics points: 14 + 4 = 18 points
Note: “Returns” ~ player topping the metrics getting points returns and not necessarily the highest scoring option of the week.
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Chris Wood tops the captaincy metrics with 23% of the votes and will be playing West Ham at home, who have conceded 8 goals in 2 games. Joao Pedro, who returned with a 15-point haul, is 2nd in the captaincy poll with 21% of the votes, and with Palmer missing GW3, he should be on penalties too. Haaland is 3rd in the captaincy poll with 18% of the votes.
The top five in the captaincy poll is completed by Man United duo Cunha and Bruno. There’s a lot of noise around Man United after their embarrassing loss to League Two side Grimsby Town in the midweek Carabao Cup game, but Burnley(H) is probably on paper one of the easiest fixtures they’ll have this season, so it’s not a surprise that the duo have more votes than Mo Salah.
Underlying Numbers of the FPL Gameweek 3 Captain picks
Wood and Haaland are top for shots inside the box(15) over the last six games, Cunha is 2nd with 11 shots inside the box. Bruno is top for chances created with 20 chances created in the last 6 games. Haaland is at the top for big chances(7), and Wood is not far off with 6 big chances. Joao Pedro has decent numbers across all metrics and is 3rd for xG amongst the five players.
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Underlying Numbers of the Candidate’s Teams
Man City have registered an xG of 11.08 during the last six games and take up the top spot. They have had 54 shots inside the box and 12 big chances during the period.
Man United are 2nd in the table with an xG of 10.21. The Reds have also registered 62 goal attempts in the box and had 10 big chances in their last six games.
Chelsea are 4th in the table with an xG of 10.07. Marseca’s team have registered 51 shots inside the box and 21 big chances in their last six games.
Nottingham Forest are 5th in the table with an xG of 7.95 and have had 16 big chances and 46 goal attempts in the box.
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Fixture Difficulty of the candidate team in FPL GW3
In the Third Phase of the Article, we look at the Fixture Difficulty of our 5 Candidates.
We will use DraftHound’s odds for a Team scoring at least one goal in the Gameweek and the Odds of scoring more than 2.0 goals in the Gameweek as a whole.
Man United are top with a 87% odds of at least 1 goal in gameweek one and 43% odds of scoring 2+ goals in FPL GW3 against Burnley(H).
Man City are 3rd with a 83% odds of at least 1 goal in the gameweek and a 31% odds of scoring 2+ goals in their second away game of the season against Brighton.
Chelsea are also 3rd and have 81% odds of at least 1 goal in the gameweek and a 36% odds of scoring 2+ goals this week against Fulham(H)
Nottingham Forest are last with an 81% odds of at least 1 goal in the gameweek and a 29% odds of scoring 2+ goals this week against West Ham(H).
Forest’s odds are still pretty good, it’s just that the other teams have slightly better odds. Only 6% separate the 1st(Man United) and last team(Nottingham Forest) for odds of at least 1 goal, and 14% separate 2+ goals.
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Projections Rank of our FPL Gameweek 3 Captain Picks
In the fourth phase of the article, I used the Anytime Returns and Projected Points tools available at Fantasy Football Hub. With the help of the Anytime Returns Tool, I have derived the Safety Rank, which helps in determining the Safest Captaincy Option of the week, while I have used the Projected Points Tool to determine the Explosion Rank, which helps in determining the Most Explosive Option of the week.
Haaland is first with an anytime returns projection of 64% and a 6.6 points projection in FPL Gameweek 3
Cunha is second and has an anytime returns projection of 55% and a 5.8 points projection vs Burnley(H), teammate Bruno is third with an anytime returns projection of 52% and a points projection of 6.5
Pedro takes the 4th spot having an anytime returns projection of 54% and a points projection of 5.3 vs Fulham(H)
Wood takes the last spot with the Forest forward having an anytime returns projection of 48% and a points projection of 5.1 against West Ham(H).
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Conclusion – Final Rank from our FPL Gameweek 3 Captaincy metrics
In the Fifth and Final Phase of the article, I have aggregated the Ranks derived above to pull out the Cumulative Rank Factor (CRF). According to our captaincy metrics, the candidate with the lowest cumulative rank factor is the ideal captaincy option.
Haaland tops the captaincy metrics with a CRF of 6, Cunha is second with a CRF of 9. Bruno is 3rd with a cumulative rank factor of 11, Joao Pedro is 4th with a CRF of 14, and Wood is last with a CRF of 17.
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