FPL Gaffer
GW3 · 90 players, 4,005 pairs
Nobody buys a player; they spend money. Fifteen million is two very good midfielders or one great forward and somebody who plays, and the only honest way to compare those is at the same spend — so whichever side is cheaper is credited with what its spare buys at replacement level before the two totals are put beside each other.
replacement level: 1.4 points per £mshortlist: 90+ minutes played
Head to head
The cheaper side is credited with what its spare million buys at replacement level, because in a real squad that money is not sitting in the bank — it is buying somebody.
Side A
49
49 pts · £8.1m
Side B
29.3
28 pts · £7.2m +1.3 spare
Side B is £0.9m cheaper. At 1.4 points per million — what a playing enabler actually returns this season — that money is worth 1.3 points elsewhere, and it has been added to that side.
The ladder
The best pair inside every two-million bracket. Read down it and the question stops being who is good and starts being whether the next two million is worth what it adds.
A step in green returns more per million than the 1.4 a playing enabler does, so it is worth the upgrade. A grey step is money that would do more work somewhere else in the squad.
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Top thirty
The thirty highest-scoring pairs on the shortlist. Expensive, by definition.
| Pair | Cost | Pts | Per £m | xGI | G | A | Bonus | Owned | Clubs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Gakpo B.Fernandes | £19.2m | 55 | 2.9 | 4.6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 29.4% | 2 |
Gakpo Tzolakis | £11.8m | 54 | 4.6 | 1.6 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 11.7% | 2 |
| GakpoAjayi | £11.3m | 53 | 4.7 | 2.1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12.7% | 2 |
Gakpo Cherki | £15.0m | 53 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 21.9% | 2 |
| B.FernandesTzolakis | £16.6m | 53 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 27.3% | 2 |
Gakpo Ødegaard | £13.8m | 52 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 14.6% | 2 |
| B.FernandesAjayi | £16.1m | 52 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 28.3% | 2 |
| GakpoHaaland | £22.7m | 52 | 2.3 | 4.5 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 42.5% | 2 |
| GakpoMendy | £11.2m | 52 | 4.6 | 1.9 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10.8% | 2 |
| B.FernandesCherki | £19.8m | 52 | 2.6 | 5.0 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 37.5% | 2 |
Gakpo Scott | £13.2m | 52 | 3.9 | 2.2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 9.3% | 2 |
| B.FernandesØdegaard | £18.6m | 51 | 2.7 | 5.1 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 30.2% | 2 |
| GakpoEgan | £11.3m | 51 | 4.5 | 1.6 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10.1% | 2 |
| TzolakisAjayi | £8.7m | 51 | 5.9 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 10.6% | 1 |
| GakpoIsak | £16.3m | 51 | 3.1 | 3.9 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 17.7% | 1 |
| TzolakisCherki | £12.4m | 51 | 4.1 | 1.9 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 19.7% | 2 |
| B.FernandesHaaland | £27.5m | 51 | 1.9 | 6.0 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 58.1% | 2 |
| B.FernandesMendy | £16.0m | 51 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 26.4% | 2 |
| B.FernandesScott | £18.0m | 51 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 24.9% | 2 |
| GakpoSaka | £16.7m | 50 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12.6% | 2 |
| TzolakisØdegaard | £11.2m | 50 | 4.5 | 2.1 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 12.4% | 2 |
| B.FernandesEgan | £16.1m | 50 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 25.6% | 2 |
| AjayiCherki | £11.9m | 50 | 4.2 | 2.4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 20.8% | 2 |
Gakpo Bogle | £11.7m | 50 | 4.3 | 2.5 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7.8% | 2 |
| GakpoGvardiol | £12.8m | 50 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16.9% | 2 |
| B.FernandesIsak | £21.1m | 50 | 2.4 | 5.4 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 33.3% | 2 |
| TzolakisHaaland | £20.1m | 50 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 40.4% | 2 |
| TzolakisMendy | £8.6m | 50 | 5.8 | 0.3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 8.7% | 1 |
| TzolakisScott | £10.6m | 50 | 4.7 | 0.6 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7.2% | 2 |
| GakpoCalafiori | £12.9m | 50 | 3.9 | 2.7 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 31.0% | 2 |
Season totals, not projections. Ownership is the average of the two, because two players owned by forty per cent each are not owned by eighty per cent of the game. A pair on one club shares every blank, every bad afternoon and every rotation.
