Chris Rigg

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Chris Rigg is a midfielder for Sunderland, age 19, £5.0m. The Premier ranks him 248th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#269, 35.0 points) with the consensus of 2 other boards (303.0). Last year's Sleeper line ran 34 spots ahead of the expert/FPL mix. The third list keeps some of that production bump and refuses to throw the other boards out. That is the whole point of not just republishing The Pitch.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 11 starts and 758 minutes, 1 goals and 1 assists, 13 tackles and 15 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 36 points (2.0 per match) with 1 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 35.0. 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: 0.86 xG, 0.93 xA, 1.79 xGI. Role at Sunderland is the 2026/27 question sitting under the 2025/26 number. 11 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 FPL xGI at 235; the coldest is RotoWire FPL 400 at 307.

Market: £5.0m, 6 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 1.5. ICT 36.0.

Instruction: he is on the 400, which is already a statement, and he is not a star. Stash in Sleeper if the minutes are real. Do not let a Pitch screenshot make you start him over a Premier top-80. Nearby on The Premier: Archie Gray, Alysson Edward Franco, Tyler Dibling. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #269), the hybrid moves him up to #248. That move is the third list doing its job.

Age 19 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 Sunderland kid does not get stuck behind a 32-year-old who had a nice bonus year. Sleeper still has to see the minutes. 11 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 #269 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.