Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 5 points for Hickey and 17 for Ajayi, so Ajayi 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 Ajayi

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Ajayi by 12 projected points.

Hickey

BRENTFORD · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Sell78%

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

Ajayi

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.2

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

EVE (H)FUL (A)BRE (H)IPS (H)ARS (A)

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£4.2

5Total points27

1.0Form2.3

1.0Points / game5.4

0.1%Owned14.0%

152Minutes423

0Goals1

0Assists0

0.03xG0.66

0.06xA0.01

4.7ICT14.1

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

5Projected pts17

The verdict

Ajayi comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 5), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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