Rice or Lacey?

On projected points alone, Rice is ahead by 20.8 over the next six gameweeks. That is not the whole answer.

Rice

Arsenal · MID · £7.4m

Unspecified injury - 75% chance of playing

Projected, next 6 GW
22.5
Chance of starting
72%
Owned by
12.5%
Points this season
39
Minutes
670

Set-piece taker

Lacey

Man Utd · MID · £4.9m

Projected, next 6 GW
1.7
Chance of starting
10%
Owned by
0.1%
Points this season
2
Minutes
22

The answer nobody else gives you

Lacey is owned by 0.1% of managers, against 12.5% for Rice.

If you are chasing someone in your mini-league, the less-owned player is usually the right pick even when he projects slightly lower — points from a player your rival also owns cancel out and cannot close the gap. If you are defending a lead, take the one your rival already has: matching them removes their chance to gain on you.

Global ownership is only a proxy. What actually matters is whether the specific people in your league own him.

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Projected by gameweek

Projected points for Rice and Lacey by gameweek
GWRiceLaceyDifference
93.40.3+3.1
104.40.3+4.1
113.70.3+3.5
123.60.3+3.3
133.70.3+3.5
143.70.3+3.4

Projections are ours, not FPL's. Measured error 1.20 points per player per gameweek over the last 5. How we calculate them