Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for Rice and 18 for Slater, so Slater 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.

Rice vs Slater

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Slater by 3 projected points.

Rice

Arsenal · MID · £7.5

projected points / 5 GW

Hold64%

COV (H)AVL (A)CHE (H)SUN (A)BHA (A)

Slater

Hull City · MID · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

MUN (H)COV (A)AVL (H)CHE (A)NEW (A)

Stat by stat

£7.5Price£4.5

3Total points6

3.0Form6.0

3.0Points / game6.0

18.0%Owned3.3%

67Minutes90

0Goals0

0Assists1

0.07xG0.00

0.08xA0.44

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

16Projected pts18

The verdict

Slater comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 16), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

Hold — Rice is fine to keep, but there is no urgent case to bring him in.

Buy — Slater is one of the better MID options for the next 5 gameweeks.

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