Daniel James

PitchKeep Take · The Premier

Daniel James is a midfielder for Leeds, age 28, £5.0m. The Premier ranks him 372nd overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#329, 11.6 points) with the consensus of 3 other boards (409.0). Last year's Sleeper line ran 80 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 6 starts and 547 minutes, 0 goals and 0 assists, 7 tackles and 9 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 23 points (1.2 per match). Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 11.6. 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: 0.91 xG, 0.71 xA, 1.62 xGI. Role at Leeds is the 2026/27 question sitting under the 2025/26 number. 6 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 243; the coldest is Sleeper BPL 2025 at 329.

Market: £5.0m, 4 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 33.9.

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: Tom Cairney, Sebastiaan Bornauw, Ethan Pinnock. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #329), the hybrid moves him down to #372. That move is the third list doing its job.

He is 28, which on this board is neither a dart nor a warning label. Prime-age midfielders get ranked on what they just did and whether Leeds still gives them the ball. 547 minutes says yes. The 2026/27 FPL price (£5.0m) is the app's guess at whether that continues. The Premier is the blend of that guess and the box score.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #329 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.