Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 5 points for Hickey and 21 for Hall, so Hall is the pick.

What does this comparison account for?

Price, ownership, form, expected goals and assists per 90, minutes reliability, and the difficulty of each player's next five fixtures.

Hickey vs Hall

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Hall by 16 projected points.

Hickey

BRENTFORD · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Sell78%

AVL (A)LIV (H)HUL (A)NFO (H)BHA (A)

Hall

NEWCASTLE · DEF · £5.3

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

COV (A)AVL (H)CRY (A)EVE (H)FUL (A)

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£5.3

5Total points31

1.0Form5.7

1.0Points / game6.2

0.1%Owned17.3%

152Minutes449

0Goals1

0Assists1

0.03xG0.25

0.06xA0.79

4.7ICT30.2

3.2Avg FDR (5)2.8

5Projected pts21

The verdict

Hall comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (21 vs 5), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 2.8) and better current form.

Sell — the projection, fixtures or minutes do not support keeping Hickey.

Buy — Hall is one of the better DEF options for the next 5 gameweeks.

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