Brentford has teamed up with Fantasy Football Scout to help bring you hints, tips and advice throughout the 2026/27 Fantasy Premier League (FPL) season.
Scout will use its expertise to provide information, advice and Gameweek picks that could help you stay on top of your mini-leagues.
Top FPL scorers
Three of FPL’s top four scorers are Brighton and Hove Albion players: Maxim De Cuyper (£5.5m), Luka Vušković (£5.3m) and Pascal Gross (£6.3m).
De Cuyper and Vušković are both defenders, although the former continues to be used on the left wing, delivering two goals and four assists alongside Brighton’s impressive defensive record.
Penalty-taking midfielder Gross leads the way for chances created (29), having also registered six assists.
The other player to reach 70 points is Erling Haaland (£15.8m), whose nine goals are two more than next-best Alexander Isak (£9.3m).
Matching the Liverpool forward’s 61-point tally is Evanilson (£6.5m), currently on a five-match scoring streak, while Bournemouth team-mate Marcus Tavernier (£6.7m) has scored the same number of goals from midfield.
At the back, Arsenal join Brighton on seven clean sheets, making Gabriel Magalhães (£8.1m), David Raya (£6.2m), Riccardo Calafiori (£5.9m) and Ezri Konsa (£4.8m) popular picks.
As for Brentford, 472 of the 9,145 FPL points accumulated so far belong to Bees players, the eighth-highest club total.
These are led by the 46 points of Kevin Schade (£6.1m). A shoulder injury affected the Germany international’s minutes in Gameweeks 6 and 7, but he has still registered three goals and two assists.
Schade is also joint-sixth among midfielders for shots inside the box, with 17.
Centre-back Kristoffer Ajer (£4.5m) is on 42 points. He has played every minute, scored against Aston Villa and earned defensive contribution points on five occasions.
Ideal differentials
Of course, many of the players above now have huge ownership, helping to create a template squad.
Often, the factor that decides mini-league winners is investing in the right differentials to complement those popular picks: players owned by fewer than 10 per cent of FPL managers who can help separate your team from those around you.
For example, Bournemouth’s Rayan (£6.3m) has registered more shots and penalty-area efforts than both Evanilson and Tavernier, despite coming at a slightly lower price.
Team-mate António Silva (£5.1m) is similar to Leeds United’s Tarik Muharemović (£5.1m), with both summer arrivals keeping clean sheets, ranking among the leading defenders for headed attempts and earning defensive contribution points on a joint-high seven occasions.
Perhaps a midfielder such as Bradley Barcola (£8.1m) or Florian Wirtz (£7.2m) is worth considering for Liverpool’s positive-looking fixtures, while Aston Villa captain John McGinn (£5.4m) has registered two goals and four assists across his last six starts, as well as missing a penalty.
Not many FPL squads include Brentford’s Caoimhín Kelleher (£5.0m) or Dango Ouattara (£6.2m).
Last season’s second-highest-scoring goalkeeper, Kelleher has helped Brentford keep three clean sheets in five home matches. Four of the Bees’ next six Premier League fixtures also take place at home.
Ouattara was the joint-fourth-best midfielder for Opta-defined big chances (18) in 2025/26 and has now started four successive matches.
He scored against Hull City before assisting against Nottingham Forest.
Underlying stats
Elsewhere, one of the standout budget options is Everton forward Thierno Barry (£5.7m), who delivered a big return against Coventry City. He leads the league for Opta-defined big chances, with 22.
Another in-form striker is Nicolas Jackson (£7.1m). More than 2.37 million managers bought him ahead of Gameweek 9, breaking the all-time FPL record for transfers in during a single Gameweek.
He has justified that interest by returning 33 points across his last three matches.
Interestingly, Iliman Ndiaye (£5.8m) has registered six shots on target without scoring, while Morgan Gibbs-White (£7.8m) is the league’s most creative player behind Gross.
Two Brentford players sit inside the top eight for total defensive contribution actions, and neither is Ajer.
Only two midfielders have earned more additional points through defensive contributions than Vitaly Janelt (£5.0m), while Mamadou Sangaré (£5.4m) is averaging more than 15 defensive actions per 90 minutes.
Strong competition for starting places has limited Sangaré’s minutes, however, with 60 per cent of his appearances lasting no more than 62 minutes.