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Sebastiaan Bornauw is a defender for Leeds, age 27, £4.5m. The Premier ranks him 350th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#299, 24.4 points) with the consensus of 3 other boards (320.33). Last year's Sleeper line ran 21 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 5 starts and 429 minutes, 0 goals and 0 assists, 2 clean sheets, 5 goals against, 8 tackles and 41 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 25 points (2.1 per match). Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 24.4. 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: 0.2 xG, 0.01 xA, 0.21 xGI. The defensive events are the floor: 8 tackles, 41 clearances/blocks/interceptions, 2 shutouts. Sleeper is built to notice that. ICT and xGI boards are not, which is why a centre-back's spread on this desk is usually ugly and still informative. The friendliest board is Sleeper BPL 2025 at 299; the coldest is FPL ICT Index at 330.

Market: £4.5m, 0.0% owned into the 2026/27 FPL start, 4 boards on the file. Mid-range ownership means the name is known and not fully paid. That is usually where this desk lives — not the 70% tax, not the 0.2% dart. ICT 12.2.

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. FPL flag: unavailable; Has joined Hamburg SV on loan for the rest of the season. Nearby on The Premier: Walter Benítez, Melker Ellborg, Filip Jörgensen. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #299), the hybrid moves him down to #350. That move is the third list doing its job.

He is 27, which on this desk is neither a dart nor a warning label. Prime-age defenders get ranked on what they just did and whether Leeds still gives them the ball. 429 minutes says yes. The 2026/27 FPL price (£4.5m) is the app's guess at whether that continues. The Premier is the blend of that guess and the box score.

Full-backs and centre-backs separate on this desk by attacking events. 0 goals and 0 assists are how a defender outruns his GA column. Without those, you are betting 2 clean sheets and the CBI stream (41) against 5 goals against at −2 a piece. Leeds's 2026/27 defensive shape is therefore half of this player's rank. The other half already happened, across 5 starts.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #299 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. Unranked sources are skipped, never treated as 999, which is why a player missing from Yahoo's XI is not secretly ranked 400th.