Eddie Nketiah

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Eddie Nketiah is a forward for Crystal Palace, age 27, £5.5m. The Premier ranks him 285th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#289, 27.2 points) with the consensus of 2 other boards (378.0). Last year's Sleeper line ran 89 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 2 starts and 414 minutes, 2 goals and 0 assists, 8 tackles and 13 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 23 points (1.9 per match) with 3 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 27.2. Forwards get 9 a goal and 0 for a clean sheet, so this ranking is almost entirely the 2 finishes and 0 assists - not the defensive crumbs.

Underlying: 1.77 xG, 0.46 xA, 2.23 xGI. Role at Crystal Palace is the 2026/27 question sitting under the 2025/26 number. 2 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 Price Board at 160; the coldest is RotoWire FPL 400 at 383.

Market: £5.5m, 7 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 1.8. ICT 37.8.

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: Joshua Zirkzee, Jamie Bynoe-Gittens, Harrison Reed. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #289), the hybrid moves him up to #285. That move is the third list doing its job.

He is 27, which on this board is neither a dart nor a warning label. Prime-age forwards get ranked on what they just did and whether Crystal Palace still gives them the ball. 414 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.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #289 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.