Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 17 points for Justin and 14 for Botman, so Justin 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.

Justin vs Botman

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

Justin

LEEDS · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

MUN (H)SUN (A)BOU (A)TOT (H)CHE (A)

Botman

NEWCASTLE · DEF · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

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

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£5.0

32Total points26

4.7Form5.0

5.3Points / game3.7

2.0%Owned0.8%

528Minutes630

1Goals1

0Assists0

0.41xG0.21

0.42xA0.22

26.5ICT23.2

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

17Projected pts14

The verdict

Justin comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 14), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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