Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 4 points for Crooks and 5 for Merino, so Merino 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.

Crooks vs Merino

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Merino by 1 projected points.

Crooks

Hull City · MID · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

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

Merino

Arsenal · MID · £6.0

projected points / 5 GW

Sell78%

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

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£6.0

2Total points1

2.0Form1.0

2.0Points / game1.0

0.7%Owned0.7%

90Minutes14

0Goals0

0Assists0

0.00xG0.14

0.00xA0.02

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

4Projected pts5

The verdict

Merino comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (5 vs 4), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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