Players/Everton/Defender

James Tarkowski

DEFEverton33 years oldat the club since 2022

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Team of the week once

Next: Ipswich Town at home, Sat 19 Sept, 15:002

2026/27 season. Owned by 12.9% of managers (1,390,772). Transfers this gameweek: +113888.

Top 10k: 9.7% · Top 100k: 7.3% GW4 estimates

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Price: £6.1m; +0.1m since season start
Points: 29; 7.2 per game
Form: 7.2; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 360; 4 starts
xGI: 0.20; 0.05 per 90
Bonus: 4; 95 BPS
xMins next: 81; 90% to start, 88% for 60+
xPoints next: 7.2; FPL's official expected points, GW5

Availability

no news

Available

No news. Fit and available.

No availability changes recorded this season.

Profile against other defenders

per 90 minutes, this season

Points per 90
947.25
Clean sheets per 90
740.50
xGC per 90 (lower is better)
581.38
xGI per 90
290.05
Defensive contributions per 90
789.8
Bonus per 90
931.00
Threat per 90
717.3
Start rate
60100%

Percentile among 97 defenders with at least 135 minutes this season. 100 is the best.

2026/27 gameweek by gameweek

4 appearances, 29 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	G	CS	Bonus	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	xGC	Price
1	CRY H	W 2-0	90	6	0	1	0	25	0.05	0.00	0.05	1.96	6.0
2	BOU A	D 1-1	90	12	1	0	2	27	0.10	0.01	0.11	2.16	6.0
3	MUN H	D 2-2	90	3	0	0	0	11	0.02	0.01	0.03	0.69	6.0
4	TOT A	D 0-0	90	8	0	1	2	32	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.69	6.0
Season			360	29	1	2	4	95	0.17	0.03	0.20	5.50

Where the points came from

29 points

Appearances27%+8
Goals20%+6
Clean sheets27%+8
Bonus13%+4
Defensive contributions13%+4
Goals conceded-1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 29.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 5Nailed

xMins: 81; one fixture
Starts: 90%; 90 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 88%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 94%; fit, as far as FPL knows

GW1

GW2

GW3

Tarkowski started 3 of the last 3 gameweeks (90, 90, 90 minutes most recently). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

7.3

season 7.3, 0.0

Returns

75%

3 of 4 games with 5+

Hauls

25%

1 with 10+

Blanks

0 with 2 or fewer

Last five

CRY H

BOU A

MUN H

TOT A

Fixture-adjusted form, last 4 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 6.9; points per gameweek
Raw: 7.3; -0.3 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 0.99x; their attack, 1.00 is average

GW1CRY H · attack 11th6 ×0.92 5.7
GW2BOU A · attack 10th12 ×1.00 12.0
GW3MUN H · attack 8th3 ×1.23 3.2
GW4TOT A · attack 20th8 ×0.79 6.7

About what it looks: the opponents were close to average. Points above the appearance points are scaled by the opponent's attack (expected goals for per game from the analytics table), shrunk toward the league average early in the season and capped between 0.6 and 1.5.

Starts

4 of 4

100% start rate

Minutes per start

4 full games

60+ minutes

100%

of team games

From the bench

0 unused

Home2 games

Points: 9
Per game: 4.5
xGI per game: 0.04

Away2 games

Points: 20
Per game: 10.0
xGI per game: 0.06

Expected against actual

On track

Stat	Actual	Expected	Difference
Goals	1	0.17	+0.83
Assists	0	0.03	-0.03
Goal involvements	1	0.20	+0.80
Goals conceded	3	5.50	-2.50

Expected numbers are FPL's own xG, xA and xGC, summed over the gameweeks played. A big positive difference tends to fall back; a big negative one tends to catch up.

xPoints record

frozen at each deadline, graded after

Next gameweek (GW5): 7.2 expected points, FPL's official expected points, GW5.

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	2.8	6	+3.2
2	2.8	12	+9.2
3	9.0	3	-6.0

Average miss 6.13 points over 3 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 2.13. How the feed is graded.

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Previous seasons

Season	Pts	Per 90	Min	G	A	CS	xGI	Bonus	Price
2025/26	170	4.59	3330	2	3	11	4.6	12	5.5 to 5.8
2024/25	105	3.23	2922	1	1	10	3.7	8	5.0 to 4.7
2023/24	117	3.08	3420	1	1	13	5.2	10	4.5 to 4.6
2022/23	106	2.79	3420	1	1	9	4.9	13	4.5 to 4.1
2021/22	83	2.41	3106	1	2	7	0.0	5	5.0 to 4.9
2020/21	109	3.03	3240	1	0	11	0.0	9	5.5 to 5.3
2019/20	143	3.76	3420	2	3	15	0.0	14	5.0 to 5.5
2018/19	97	2.83	3086	3	2	7	0.0	7	5.0 to 4.7
2017/18	101	3.26	2790	0	1	11	0.0	4	4.5 to 4.6
2016/17	23	3.64	568	0	0	1	0.0	0	4.0 to 4.0

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Fixtures ahead

GW5
Ipswich Town H
Sat 19 Sept, 15:00 · attack 7th of 20
2
GW6
Hull City A
Sun 11 Oct, 14:00 · attack 13th of 20
2
GW7
Chelsea H
Sat 17 Oct, 12:30 · attack 2nd of 20
4
GW8
Arsenal A
Sat 24 Oct, 15:00 · attack 4th of 20
5
GW9
Newcastle A
Mon 2 Nov, 20:00 · attack 5th of 20
3
GW10
Coventry City H
Sat 7 Nov, 15:00 · attack 19th of 20
2
GW11
Brentford A
Sat 21 Nov, 15:00 · attack 6th of 20
3
GW12
Liverpool H
Sat 28 Nov, 15:00 · attack 9th of 20
4

Average difficulty over the next five: 3.2. 1 is easiest, 5 hardest, by FPL's rating. The rank is the opponent's attack or defence among the 20 clubs by expected goals this season, 1 being the strongest.

Value over replacement

points above the cheap option

Worth the premium1st of 215 defenders by PAR

Per gameweek: 6.4; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.6; best cheap defenders
PAR: +1.8; over the replacement
Per £m: 1.11; 1.6m above the floor

+0.9 against players at his price. Replacement is the median of the best playing players at or below the floor price for the position; per million is PAR over the price above that floor. Every player by PAR.

Price and ownership

Ownership by rank

Sample	Selected by	EO
Top 10k	9.7%	7.3%
Top 100k	7.3%	5.7%

GW4 estimates · 300 managers per cohort · Updated 14 Sept, 06:06 UTC

A daily sample spread across 20 rank bands in each cohort, using FPL's Overall standings at collection time (including its tie order). These are estimates, so small percentage differences can be sampling noise. Ownership counts all 15 players in the published GW4 squad, including the bench; transfers since the deadline are private. EO (effective ownership) uses FPL's scoring multipliers: captains count twice, triple captains three times, and only scoring players count. EO is provisional and can change as FPL applies substitutions.

Daily since 9 Aug: blue is price, grey is ownership, dots are the days the price moved (1 so far).

This gameweek

+0.1m

price so far

Transfers in

127K

13K out

Ownership, 7 days

+1.6

percentage points

Towards a change

rising

Ownership velocity: accelerating up, tier moderate.

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penaltiesnot a taker
Club order: Barry, Garner
Corners and indirect free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Garner, Dewsbury-Hall, Hackney
Direct free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Garner

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