James Trafford

PitchKeep Take · The Premier

James Trafford is a goalkeeper for Leeds, age 23, £5.0m. The Premier ranks him 84th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#287, 28.4 points) with the consensus of 4 other boards (77.25). The industry still has him 210 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 Leeds still builds around.

The 2025/26 line is 4 starts, 360 minutes, 14 saves, 1 clean sheets and 6 goals against. Official FPL scored it at 13 points (3.2 per match). Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 28.4. Keepers get 8 a clean sheet, 2 a save, and −2 a goal against. That is a different sport than FPL's 10-from-saves cap, and it is why this board ranks them at all.

The job is shot-stopping volume in front of whatever Leeds is this year. 14 saves is the Sleeper case. 1 clean sheets is the FPL case. If the back line leaks, both numbers move together and this ranking goes with them. The friendliest board is RotoWire Value at 4; the coldest is FPL 2025/26 Points at 335.

Market: £5.0m, 9 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 2.6. ICT 11.9.

Instruction: deep-league starter, shallow-league watchlist. The 2025/26 line got him onto the 400. A role change gets him off it. Watch minutes, not vibes. Nearby on The Premier: Omar Alderete, Murillo Santos, Adam Wharton. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #287), the hybrid moves him up to #84. That move is the third list doing its job.

He is 23, which on this board is neither a dart nor a warning label. Prime-age goalkeepers get ranked on what they just did and whether Leeds still gives them the ball. 360 minutes says yes. The 2026/27 FPL price (£5.0m) is the app's guess at whether that continues. The Premier is the blend of that guess and the box score.

You start one goalkeeper. That positional cap is why The Premier will not put a saves leader in the overall top ten unless the consensus also shows up. Trafford's Sleeper line (28.4) already made The Pitch. The other boards (77.25) decide how far the hybrid lets him climb. Draft him as a keeper, not as an outfielder who happens to have gloves.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #287 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.