Pascal Groß

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Pascal Groß is a midfielder for Brighton, age 35, £5.5m. The Premier ranks him 38th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#148, 92.0 points) with the consensus of 8 other boards (40.12). The industry still has him 108 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 Brighton still builds around.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 18 starts and 1636 minutes, 1 goals and 6 assists, 29 tackles and 40 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 78 points (4.1 per match) with 10 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 92.0. 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: 1.39 xG, 3.95 xA, 5.34 xGI and 2.0 above expected assists. Set pieces: first-choice penalties, first-choice corners, first-choice direct free-kicks for Brighton. Role at Brighton is the 2026/27 question sitting under the 2025/26 number. 18 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 Yahoo GW1 XI at 4; the coldest is FPL 2025/26 Points at 170.

Market: £5.5m, 16 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 2.0. ICT 128.5.

Instruction: he is a starter in deep Sleeper and a squad/rotation piece in 10-team FPL. Pay Premier #38 money, not a leftover 2024 reputation, not waiver dust. Nearby on The Premier: Ismaïla Sarr, Mac Allister, Igor Jesus. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #148), the hybrid moves him up to #38. That move is the third list doing its job.

Age 35 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 35-year-old midfielder is 24. If you need a three-year window, look younger. If you need 2026/27, he just played 1636 minutes and that still counts.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #148 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.