Daniel Muñoz Mejía

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Daniel Muñoz Mejía is a defender for Crystal Palace, age 30, £5.5m. The Premier ranks him 166th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#46, 169.6 points) with the consensus of 4 other boards (174.5). Last year's Sleeper line ran 128 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 29 starts and 2400 minutes, 4 goals and 4 assists, 10 clean sheets, 33 goals against, 72 tackles and 124 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 136 points (4.7 per match) with 9 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 169.6. Defenders get 10 a goal, 7 an assist, 6 a clean sheet, and −2 a goal against. CBI at 0.4 and tackles at 1 are how a centre-back cracks the overall 50.

Underlying: 2.45 xG, 3.94 xA, 6.39 xGI. He finished 1.5 above expected goals. The defensive events are the floor: 72 tackles, 124 clearances/blocks/interceptions, 10 shutouts. Sleeper is built to notice that. ICT and xGI boards are not, which is why a centre-back's spread on this board is usually ugly and still informative. The friendliest board is Yahoo Cheat Sheet at 18; the coldest is RotoWire FPL 400 at 320.

Market: £5.5m, 11 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 2.5. ICT 139.5.

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: Joelinton Cássio, Mathys Tel, Jeremie Frimpong. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #46), the hybrid moves him down to #166. That move is the third list doing its job.

He is 30, which on this board is neither a dart nor a warning label. Prime-age defenders get ranked on what they just did and whether Crystal Palace still gives them the ball. 2400 minutes says yes. The 2026/27 FPL price (£5.5m) is the app's guess at whether that continues. The Premier is the blend of that guess and the box score.

Full-backs and centre-backs separate on this board by attacking events. 4 goals and 4 assists are how a defender outruns his GA column. Without those, you are betting 10 clean sheets and the CBI stream (124) against 33 goals against at −2 a piece. Crystal Palace's 2026/27 defensive shape is therefore half of this player's rank. The other half already happened, across 29 starts.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #46 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. 7 yellows are a real Sleeper tax.