Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for N.Williams and 14 for Giles, so N.Williams 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.

N.Williams vs Giles

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours N.Williams by 2 projected points.

N.Williams

NOTT'M FOREST · DEF · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

LIV (A)TOT (H)AVL (A)COV (H)CRY (A)

Giles

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£5.0Price£4.0

8Total points7

4.0Form3.5

4.0Points / game3.5

8.8%Owned0.9%

180Minutes129

0Goals0

1Assists0

0.06xG0.02

0.17xA0.10

2.7ICT3.7

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

16Projected pts14

The verdict

N.Williams comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (16 vs 14), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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