Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 13 points for Giles and 14 for Botman, so Botman 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 Botman

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

Giles

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

FUL (A)BRE (H)IPS (H)ARS (A)BHA (H)

Botman

NEWCASTLE · DEF · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

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

Stat by stat

£4.0Price£5.0

27Total points26

1.0Form5.0

3.9Points / game3.7

3.0%Owned0.8%

529Minutes630

0Goals1

1Assists0

0.02xG0.21

0.43xA0.22

23.5ICT23.2

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

13Projected pts14

The verdict

Botman comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (14 vs 13), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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