PITCHKEEP

PitchKeep Take · The Premier

Endo Wataru is a midfielder for Liverpool, age 33, £5.0m. The Premier ranks him 371st overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#314, 17.2 points) with the consensus of 3 other boards (342.67). Last year's Sleeper line ran 29 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 1 starts and 170 minutes, 0 goals and 1 assists, 7 tackles and 13 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 12 points (1.5 per match). Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 17.2. 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: 0.04 xG, 0.05 xA, 0.09 xGI. Role at Liverpool is the 2026/27 question sitting under the 2025/26 number. 1 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 Sleeper BPL 2025 at 314; the coldest is FPL ICT Index at 347.

Market: £5.0m, 0.0% owned into the 2026/27 FPL start, 4 boards on the file. Mid-range ownership means the name is known and not fully paid. That is usually where this desk lives — not the 70% tax, not the 0.2% dart. FPL's own EP-next is 1.5. ICT 8.0.

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: Christantus Uche, Romaine Mundle, Joël Piroe. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #314), the hybrid moves him down to #371. That move is the third list doing its job.

Age 33 is not a moral failing and it is not invisible. Youth-lean boards (The Athletic-style remap on this desk) push him down; veteran-rating boards (WhoScored, SofaScore) keep him up. The Premier averages those instincts instead of pretending a 33-year-old midfielder is 24. If you need a three-year window, look younger. If you need 2026/27, he just played 170 minutes and that still counts.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #314 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. Unranked sources are skipped, never treated as 999, which is why a player missing from Yahoo's XI is not secretly ranked 400th.