Max Dowman

PitchKeep Take · The Premier

Max Dowman is a midfielder for Arsenal, age 16, £5.5m. The Premier ranks him 270th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#311, 18.4 points) with the consensus of 2 other boards (345.5). Last year's Sleeper line ran 34 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 152 minutes, 1 goals and 1 assists, 2 tackles and 1 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 16 points (2.7 per match). Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 18.4. 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: 1.19 xG, 0.3 xA, 1.49 xGI. Role at Arsenal 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 FPL Form at 20; the coldest is RotoWire FPL 400 at 355.

Market: £5.5m, 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 2.0. ICT 16.6.

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: Veljko Milosavljevic, Rodrigo Bentancur, Ryan Yates. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #311), the hybrid moves him up to #270. That move is the third list doing its job.

Age 16 is the other half of a hybrid. The 2025/26 counting line is one season. The Athletic-style youth lean on this board exists specifically so a Arsenal kid does not get stuck behind a 32-year-old who had a nice bonus year. Sleeper still has to see the minutes. 1 starts is the beginning of a case, not the end of one.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #311 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.