Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for Ajayi and 20 for Davis, so Davis 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 Davis

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Davis by 4 projected points.

Ajayi

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.2

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

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

Davis

IPSWICH TOWN · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

FUL (H)MCI (A)NFO (H)HUL (A)BOU (H)

Stat by stat

£4.2Price£4.0

27Total points25

1.0Form8.0

5.4Points / game5.0

13.9%Owned7.1%

423Minutes450

1Goals2

0Assists2

0.66xG1.59

0.01xA0.46

14.1ICT32.5

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

16Projected pts20

The verdict

Davis comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (20 vs 16), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

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

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

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