Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for Ajayi and 19 for Thomas, so Thomas 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.

Ajayi vs Thomas

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

Ajayi

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.2

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

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

Thomas

COVENTRY CITY · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

NEW (H)TOT (A)FUL (H)SUN (H)EVE (A)

Stat by stat

£4.2Price£4.0

27Total points24

1.0Form4.5

5.4Points / game4.8

13.9%Owned8.5%

423Minutes437

1Goals0

0Assists0

0.66xG0.49

0.01xA0.30

14.1ICT18.4

3.2Avg FDR (5)2.8

16Projected pts19

The verdict

Thomas comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (19 vs 16), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 2.8) and better current form.

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

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

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