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Rice or Anthony | FPL PlayerComparison

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GW6 data · compared 417× this gameweek · last compared 22 hours ago

Midfielder

Rice

Arsenal, ARS

Midfielder

Anthony

Brentford, BRE

🏆 Rice wins 6 of 10 of data comparisons

7.4M

Cost

5.9M

Total Points

4.0

Points Per Game

3.0

11.5%

Selected By

0.1%

Goals Scored

Assists

Clean Sheets

411

Minutes Played

267

23.4

ICT Index

21.2

4.0

Form

5.5

💰 Rice is the value pick - 2.7 pts per £m (Rice 2.7 vs Anthony 2.54)

🎯 Anthony is your differential (0.1% owned) - Rice is the template pick at 11.5%

Fixtures

Arsenal

LEE 3 (H) - 2026-10-10
NFO 3 (A) - 2026-10-18
EVE 3 (H) - 2026-10-24
LIV 4 (A) - 2026-11-01
HUL 2 (H) - 2026-11-07

Brentford

AVL 3 (A) - 2026-10-10
LIV 4 (H) - 2026-10-17
HUL 2 (A) - 2026-10-25
NFO 3 (H) - 2026-10-31
BHA 4 (A) - 2026-11-08

📅 Rice has the easier run over the next 5 (avg difficulty 3.0 vs 3.2)

FPL Advisor Recommendation

Rice

51.4

Anthony

53.5

Low Confidence

Recommendation: Transfer in Anthony

Key Factors:

Better current form (5.5 vs 4.0)
Better value for money

Anthony (Brentford, £5.9m, 15 points) is the better FPL pick over Rice (Arsenal, £7.4m, 20 points) as of Gameweek 6, and Rice also has the easier next five fixtures (3.0 vs 3.2 average difficulty).