Fabian Schär

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Fabian Schär is a defender for Newcastle, age 34, £5.0m. The Premier ranks him 266th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#245, 50.4 points) with the consensus of 2 other boards (335.5). Last year's Sleeper line ran 90 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 1089 minutes, 0 goals and 0 assists, 4 clean sheets, 13 goals against, 14 tackles and 101 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 51 points (3.2 per match). Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 50.4. 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: 0.97 xG, 0.6 xA, 1.57 xGI. Set pieces: direct free-kick order #2 for Newcastle. The defensive events are the floor: 14 tackles, 101 clearances/blocks/interceptions, 4 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 FPL EP Next at 114; the coldest is RotoWire FPL 400 at 338.

Market: £5.0m, 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 2.2. ICT 46.4.

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: Noussair Mazraoui, Nicolás Domínguez, Endo Wataru. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #245), the hybrid moves him down to #266. That move is the third list doing its job.

Age 34 is not a moral failing and it is not invisible. Youth-lean boards (The Athletic-style remap on this board) push him down; veteran-rating boards (WhoScored, SofaScore) keep him up. The Premier averages those instincts instead of pretending a 34-year-old defender is 24. If you need a three-year window, look younger. If you need 2026/27, he just played 1089 minutes and that still counts.

Full-backs and centre-backs separate on this board by attacking events. 0 goals and 0 assists are how a defender outruns his GA column. Without those, you are betting 4 clean sheets and the CBI stream (101) against 13 goals against at −2 a piece. Newcastle's 2026/27 defensive shape is therefore half of this player's rank. The other half already happened, across 11 starts.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #245 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.