Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for Ajayi and 11 for Dunk, so Ajayi 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 Dunk

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

Ajayi

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.2

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

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

Dunk

BRIGHTON · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

SUN (A)CRY (H)LIV (A)MCI (A)BRE (H)

Stat by stat

£4.2Price£4.5

27Total points22

1.0Form6.0

5.4Points / game5.5

13.9%Owned1.5%

423Minutes360

1Goals1

0Assists0

0.66xG0.03

0.01xA0.09

14.1ICT14.3

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.4

16Projected pts11

The verdict

Ajayi comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (16 vs 11), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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