Dan has it correct. If the captain doesn't play for any reason, the vice captain gets doubled points instead.

The riots are probably going to cause some games to be cancelled. I'm wondering if I should be changing my team around or not. I'll wait until just before the deadline to see how this affects things, but I'm guessing that it'll be a case of "certain games might not go ahead and you will miss out on points if you don't adapt accordingly".