Adam Wharton

PitchKeep Take · The Premier

Adam Wharton is a midfielder for Crystal Palace, age 22, £5.5m. The Premier ranks him 85th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#81, 136.0 points) with the consensus of 5 other boards (80.2). Production and the industry almost agree, which is rarer than it looks on a 24-source mix. When both sides land in the same band, The Premier stops arguing and prints the number.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 29 starts and 2552 minutes, 1 goals and 6 assists, 70 tackles and 70 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 112 points (3.3 per match) with 8 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 136.0. Midfielders get 9 a goal, 6 an assist, and 1 a clean sheet, plus a full tackle/CBI stream. That is why a six who plays every week can outrank a ten-goal winger who sits.

Underlying: 1.52 xG, 7.47 xA, 8.98 xGI. Set pieces: first-choice corners for Crystal Palace. Role at Crystal Palace is the 2026/27 question sitting under the 2025/26 number. 29 starts is a starter. Anything under 25 starts is a rotation warning we already priced. Minutes are the skill that survives a finishing regression. The friendliest board is ESPN PL 50 at 34; the coldest is FPL Ownership at 221.

Market: £5.5m, 12 boards on the file. Price is the FPL tax, not the rank. The Premier is who produced and who the boards still believe. FPL's own EP-next is 2.0. ICT 139.6.

Instruction: deep-league starter, shallow-league watchlist. The 2025/26 line got him onto the 400. A role change gets him off it. Watch minutes, not vibes. Nearby on The Premier: Murillo Santos, James Trafford, Kevin Schade. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #81), the hybrid moves him down to #85. That move is the third list doing its job.

Age 22 is the other half of a hybrid. The 2025/26 counting line is one season. The Athletic-style youth lean on this board exists specifically so a Crystal Palace kid does not get stuck behind a 32-year-old who had a nice bonus year. Sleeper still has to see the minutes. 29 starts is the beginning of a case, not the end of one.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #81 there). The Premier is the 50/50 with every other board we track. Attack, Midfield, Defence, and Keepers re-rank the same Sleeper table by position. BK Value on this page follows The Premier when you are on the hybrid calculator and The Pitch when you are on the Sleeper calculator. Same curve either way - 12,000 at 1.01.