Welcome to the FPL Gameweek 15 Captaincy metrics blog. Haaland, who was the most popular captain choice in GW14 hauled. It’s a short turnaround to GW15 after the midweek gameweek 14 fixtures, Haaland faces Sunderland at home, while Bruno and Mbeumo face Wolves, an easy game for the red devils atleast on paper. Woltemade & the in form Foden are good captaincy shouts too this week. Let’s see who comes out on top of the captaincy metrics.
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Total metrics points: 14 + 4 + 18 + 26 + 10 + 32 + 16 + 26 + 4 + 26 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 28 = 216 points
Note: “Returns” ~ player topping the metrics getting points returns and not necessarily the highest scoring option of the week.
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FPL GW15 Captaincy Metrics
FPL GW15 Captaincy poll ~ Wisdom of the Crowd
Haaland, who’ll be up against Sunderland(H) comes up first in the captaincy poll as expected with 63% of the votes. The Man City striker scored his 100th Premier League goal against Fulham and picked up two assists as well.
Bruno is a distant 2nd in the captaincy poll results with just 8% of the votes, he does have a good fixture vs Wolves(A). Woltemade is 3rd and will be facing Burnley(H). Foden(vs Sunderland – H) and Mbeumo(vs Wolves – A) are 4th and 5th respectively in the captaincy poll this week.
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Underlying Numbers of the FPL Gameweek 15 Captain Picks
Haaland tops the table with 21 shots in the box, 8 Big chances, and an xG of 4.98 in the last six games.
Foden is 2nd with an xG of 2.09 in the last six games. He’s also had 4 big chances, created 15 chances and 10 shots inside the box.
Woltemade is 3rd with an xG of 1.86 in the last six games, he’s had 3 big chances, created 7 chances & taken 8 shots inside the box during the period.
Bruno is 4th with an xG of 1.62 in the last six games and has had 3 big chances & 12 goal attempts in the box. He’s also created 18 chances which is the highest among all players in the league during the period.
Mbeumo is 5th with an xG of 1.47 in the last six games. He’s had five big chances which is 2nd only to Haaland amongst the five players in the last six games.
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Underlying numbers of Candidate’s teams
Man City take the top spot and have registered 12.67 xG in thelast six games. The blues have had 72 shots inside the box and 19 big chances during the period.
Newcastle have registered 9.29 xG in the last six games and take up the second spot. They have had 48 shots inside the box and 16 big chances.
Man United are 3rd in the table with an xG of 7.73 during the last 6 matches. They have 58 Shots inside the box and 16 Big chances during this run.
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Fixture Difficulty of the Candidate Team in FPL GW15
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 City have 89% odds to get atleast one goal and 52% odds to get >2 Goals this Gameweek vs Sunderland(H) this gameweek.
Newcastle are 2nd with 89% odds of at least 1 goal in this Gameweek vs Fulham(A) and 48% odds of scoring 2+ goals in FPL GW15 against Burnley(H).
Man United are last with 82% odds of at least 1 goal in the Gameweek and a 31% odds of scoring 2+ goals this week against Wolves(A).
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Projections Rank of our FPL Gameweek 15 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 78% and a 9.3 points projection in FPL Gameweek 15 vs Sunderland(H).
Foden is second and has an anytime returns projection of 51% and a 6.5 points projection vs Sunderland(H).
Bruno 3rd here. He has an anytime returns projection of 42% and a points projection of 5.9 vs Wolves(A).
Woltemade has an anytime returns projection of 50% and a points projection of 5.3 against Burnley(H).
Mbeumo is 5th with the Man United attacker having an anytime returns projection of 45% and apoints projection of 5.5 against Wolves(A).
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Conclusion – Final Rank from our FPL Gameweek 15 Captaincy metrics
Haaland tops the captaincy metrics with a CRF of 4, the least possible cumulative rank factor in our captaincy metrics. Foden is close behind in 2nd with a CRF of 6, Woltemade is 3rd with a CRF of 12. Man United duo, Bruno and Mbeumo are 4th and 5th in the captaincy metrics for GW15.
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