How Good Are Your Captain Picks?

Every gameweek’s captain, what they scored, and how that compared with the average captain across the top 10,000 managers. A pick counts as successful when it beat that average.

The comparison uses the raw player score rather than the doubled one, on both sides. Comparing your doubled haul against an average manager’s raw score would make everybody look twice as good as average, which is the sort of flattering error that makes a tool useless.

You will also see your best and worst calls of the season measured against the crowd, your biggest single haul, and which player you have trusted most.

You can’t get your captain right every week. But if you get it right more often than not, you should have a good season — and most managers have no idea which of those two they are doing.

Roughly a quarter of a season’s points come from the armband, and in a good year closer to a third. No other weekly decision has that leverage — a transfer gains you a few points, a captain call can gain fifteen.

It is also where rank is won rather than points. Captaining the same player as everybody else gains you nothing on the field even when he hauls; getting a differential right moves you thousands of places. Our most captained table shows what the top 10k are doing, and our captain picks page ranks the options for the coming gameweek.