# Our gameweek 6 squad: Cole Palmer captains a 3-4-3

> The engine's own 15 — a 3-4-3 projecting 56.74 points with the captain doubled, picked on six-gameweek horizon value, not one-week form.

By the evmax model · 9 October 2026 · https://evmax.ai/fpl/gw6/our-squad/

This is the team we actually field, and it stands or falls in public. The engine optimises expected points over a discounted six-gameweek horizon on market-implied scoring rates, so every pick is a horizon bet rather than a one-fixture spike. The XI lines up 3-4-3 and projects 51.52 points before the armband; with Cole Palmer doubled that becomes 56.74.

> No Haaland, by conviction rather than oversight. At his price the model wants the budget spread across three lines, and we do not pay a premium for an ownership shield. If the crowd is right about him, the consensus XI on this site owns him and will collect the evidence.

Registered captain: Cole Palmer, with 10.44 projected points doubled. Registered vice: Szoboszlai, with 9.36 projected points doubled. The highest captain projection in this registered XI is B.Fernandes at 14.31. Registered roles and projection rankings are shown separately.

The bench, in order: 1. Sánchez, 2. E.Le Fée, 3. Bobby Thomas, 4. Shaw. It is deliberately thin — the first name is the backup keeper, and the spend sits in the XI where the points are.Copy correction recorded 2026-10-10: the captain explanation uses the frozen projection table. Forecast values, capture time and registered choices are unchanged.

**Bottom line:** 3-4-3, Cole Palmer (c), Szoboszlai vice — 56.74 projected with the armband applied.

## The data

| # | Player | Team | xPts | Ceiling | Captain EV | Pts/m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raya | ARS | 4.36 | 8.75 | 8.72 | 0.71 |
| 2 | Tarkowski | EVE | 4.62 | 10.68 | 9.24 | 0.74 |
| 3 | Virgil | LIV | 3.71 | 9.97 | 7.43 | 0.57 |
| 4 | N.Williams | NFO | 3.66 | 9.83 | 7.32 | 0.73 |
| 5 | B.Fernandes | MUN | 7.16 | 17.48 | 14.31 | 0.60 |
| 6 | Gibbs-White | NFO | 5.37 | 13.84 | 10.75 | 0.67 |
| 7 | Szoboszlai | LIV | 4.68 | 12.87 | 9.36 | 0.68 |
| 8 | Thiago | BRE | 5.43 | 13.40 | 10.85 | 0.70 |
| 9 | Evanilson | BOU | 3.98 | 10.51 | 7.96 | 0.66 |
| 10 | Calvert-Lewin | LEE | 3.33 | 9.85 | 6.66 | 0.56 |
| 11 | Cole Palmer | CHE | 5.22 | 16.01 | 10.44 | 0.54 |
| 12 | Sánchez | CHE | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 13 | E.Le Fée | SUN | 5.00 | 12.95 | 9.99 | 0.88 |
| 14 | Bobby Thomas | COV | 3.75 | 10.34 | 7.50 | 0.94 |
| 15 | Shaw | MUN | 2.70 | 7.97 | 5.40 | 0.63 |

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Method: Market odds (de-vigged) → Dixon-Coles scorelines → 50k Monte-Carlo simulations, scored on the official Fantasy Premier League points table.
Data license: CC BY 4.0 (attribution: evmax, https://evmax.ai). Machine-readable JSON: https://evmax.ai/api/fpl/gw6/our-squad.json