{"id":485852,"date":"2026-03-20T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485852\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:03:15","slug":"who-is-the-best-captain-for-fpl-gameweek-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485852\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the best captain for FPL Gameweek 31?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four different players were captained by over one million Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers in Gameweek 30, only the second time that has happened in 2025\/26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk\/2026\/03\/13\/who-is-the-best-captain-for-fpl-gameweek-30-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Our pick<\/a>, Bruno Fernandes (\u00a310.2m), was the big winner, and the only one of the four to return. The Portugal international recorded his sixth consecutive double-digit haul in home matches.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-27ab21c0-67ec-43d5-8c48-e8a0279705de\">Attention now turns to Blank Gameweek 31, with usual suspect Erling Haaland (\u00a314.5m), his Manchester City team-mate Antoine Semenyo (\u00a38.3m) and Arsenal\u2019s resolute defence all without a fixture. With the many millions of Haaland backers looking for an alternative, is there a case to look beyond Fernandes? That\u2019s what we\u2019re considering in \u2018Captain Sensible\u2019.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-5f0e4153-f499-42bc-982c-fdde19fef2bc\">In this piece, we will assess the <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.fm\/16762348\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on-site captaincy poll<\/a>, analyse <a href=\"https:\/\/members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk\/team-stats\/defending\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">myriad player and team statistics<\/a>, consult\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/rate-my-team.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rate My Team (RMT) points projections<\/a>, and settle on a top three for the armband, ahead of Friday\u2019s 6.30pm GMT deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Captaincy Poll<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-236-1024x702.png\" alt=\"Best captain 31\" class=\"wp-image-162790 webpexpress-processed\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>In a result similar to Haaland\u2019s early-season dominance, Fernandes boasts a clear lead in the Fantasy Football Scout captaincy poll. The in-form Manchester United talisman has picked up well over 50% of votes cast ahead of the Red Devils\u2019 trip to Bournemouth. In the reverse fixture, Fernandes returned a 13-point haul.<\/p>\n<p>In second and third spot are Harry Wilson (\u00a36.0m) and Joao Pedro (\u00a37.8m), respectively. Both players blanked last time out but have been in brilliant recent form<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Hugo Ekitike (\u00a39.2m) is the only other player to garner more than 5% support, currently sitting just ahead of Anthony Gordon (\u00a37.3m) in the standings. The former scored in the UEFA Champions League in midweek, while Gordon notched a double-digit haul in Gameweek 30.<\/p>\n<p>Player Stats \u2013 Last Six Gameweeks<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/FFScoutEditorial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250820-WA0000-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"price change predictions\" class=\"wp-image-144736 webpexpress-processed\" style=\"width:600px\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four different players were captained by over one million Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers in Gameweek 30, only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[172300,172301,49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-485852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-best-captain-for-gameweek-31","tag-gameweek-31-best-captain","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}