James Tarkowski

PitchKeep Take · The Premier

James Tarkowski is a defender for Everton, age 33, £6.0m. The Premier ranks him 13th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#41, 176.0 points) with the consensus of 5 other boards (15.0). The industry still has him 26 spots ahead of the 2025/26 Sleeper count. The Premier pays that reputation something, not everything. Brand does not outrun a down year, and a down year does not erase a player Everton still builds around.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 37 starts and 3330 minutes, 2 goals and 3 assists, 11 clean sheets, 48 goals against, 51 tackles and 325 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 170 points (4.6 per match) with 12 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 176.0. 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: 2.53 xG, 2.1 xA, 4.63 xGI. The defensive events are the floor: 51 tackles, 325 clearances/blocks/interceptions, 11 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 RotoWire DEFCON at 3; the coldest is FPL xGI at 109.

Market: £6.0m, 12 boards on the file. That is leftover money for a Premier-ranked name. If the minutes hold, this board already voted. FPL's own EP-next is 2.8. ICT 165.7.

Instruction: treat him as a building-block, not a dart. Premier #13 is the band where you start the player every week in Sleeper. Nearby on The Premier: Bryan Mbeumo, Alexander Isak, Declan Rice. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #41), the hybrid moves him up to #13. 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 board) push him down; veteran-rating boards (WhoScored, SofaScore) keep him up. The Premier averages those instincts instead of pretending a 33-year-old defender is 24. If you need a three-year window, look younger. If you need 2026/27, he just played 3330 minutes and that still counts.

Full-backs and centre-backs separate on this board by attacking events. 2 goals and 3 assists are how a defender outruns his GA column. Without those, you are betting 11 clean sheets and the CBI stream (325) against 48 goals against at −2 a piece. Everton's 2026/27 defensive shape is therefore half of this player's rank. The other half already happened, across 37 starts.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #41 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. 8 yellows are a real Sleeper tax.