Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 17 points for Giles and 11 for Smith, so Giles 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.

Giles vs Smith

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Giles by 7 projected points.

Giles

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Smith

BOURNEMOUTH · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

EVE (H)NEW (A)BRE (H)LIV (H)CHE (A)

Stat by stat

£4.0Price£4.5

12Total points2

6.0Form1.0

6.0Points / game1.0

0.9%Owned0.1%

174Minutes180

0Goals0

0Assists0

0.02xG0.00

0.14xA0.02

3.7ICT0.8

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.4

17Projected pts11

The verdict

Giles comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 11), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

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

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

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