Players/Chelsea/Defender

Reece James

DEFChelsea26 years oldat the club since 2019

75% chance of playingHamstring injury - 75% chance of playing18 Sept

Next: Bournemouth at home, Sat 10 Oct, 15:003

2026/27 season. Owned by 5.8% of managers (638,713). Transfers this gameweek: -79373.

Top 10k: 0.0% · Top 100k: 0.7% GW5 estimates

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Price: £5.4m; -0.1m since season start
Points: 3; 0.8 per game
Form: 0.7; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 292; 3 starts
xGI: 0.59; 0.18 per 90
Bonus: 0; 24 BPS
xMins next: 38; 40% to start, 21% for 60+
xPoints next: 0.5; FPL's official expected points, GW6

Availability

FPL updated 18 Sept

Doubtful75% chanceFPL updated 18 Sept

Hamstring injury - 75% chance of playing

18 SeptNews updated
Hamstring injury - 75% chance of playing
18 SeptDoubt
Unspecified injury - 75% chance of playing

Profile against other defenders

per 90 minutes, this season

Points per 90
40.92
Clean sheets per 90
130.00
xGC per 90 (lower is better)
451.51
xGI per 90
740.18
Defensive contributions per 90
64.0
Bonus per 90
290.00
Threat per 90
9215.1
Start rate
960%

Percentile among 85 defenders with at least 225 minutes this season. 100 is the best.

2026/27 gameweek by gameweek

4 appearances, 3 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	xGC	Price
1	FUL A	W 3-2	90	0	5	0.10	0.07	0.17	1.33	5.5
2	BHA H	W 4-3	22	1	-1	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.14	5.5
3	ARS A	L 1-2	90	1	9	0.07	0.05	0.12	2.05	5.5
4	HUL H	D 2-2	90	1	11	0.16	0.14	0.30	1.38	5.4
5	BRE A	L 0-3	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.4
Season			292	3	24	0.33	0.26	0.59	4.90

Where the points came from

3 points

Appearances100%+7
Goals conceded-3
Cards-1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 3.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 6Rotation

xMins: 38; one fixture
Starts: 40%; 89 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 21%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 51%; FPL says 75% fit

GW1

GW2

GW3

GW4

GW5

James started 3 of the last 5 gameweeks (0, 90, 90 minutes most recently). FPL puts his chance of playing at 75%. The chance of sixty minutes blends the site's own estimate (39%) with the xPoints model's (2%). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

0.6

season 0.8, -0.1

Returns

0 of 4 games with 5+

Hauls

0 with 10+

Blanks

100%

4 with 2 or fewer

Last five

FUL A

BHA H

ARS A

HUL H

BRE A

Fixture-adjusted form, last 5 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 0.6; points per gameweek
Raw: 0.6; +0.0 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 1.07x; their attack, 1.00 is average

GW1FUL A · attack 16th0 ×1.01 -0.0
GW2BHA H · attack 1st1 ×1.28 1.0
GW3ARS A · attack 6th1 ×1.06 0.9
GW4HUL H · attack 13th1 ×0.83 1.2
GW5BRE A · attack 3rd0 ×1.18 0.0

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

3 of 5

60% start rate

Minutes per start

3 full games

60+ minutes

60%

of team games

From the bench

1 unused

Home2 games

Points: 2
Per game: 1.0
xGI per game: 0.15

Away2 games

Points: 1
Per game: 0.5
xGI per game: 0.15

Expected against actual

On track

Stat	Actual	Expected	Difference
Goals	0	0.33	-0.33
Assists	0	0.26	-0.26
Goal involvements	0	0.59	-0.59
Goals conceded	7	4.90	+2.10

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 (GW6): 0.5 expected points, FPL's official expected points, GW6.

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	2.5	0	-2.5
2	2.5	1	-1.5
3	0.5	1	+0.5
4	0.7	1	+0.3
5	0.6	0	-0.6

Average miss 1.2 points over 4 graded gameweeks, over-projected on average by 0.80. How the feed is graded.

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Nearest by per-90 profile and price among players in the same position with enough minutes. Not a recommendation, a comparison.

Previous seasons

Season	Pts	Per 90	Min	G	A	CS	xGI	Bonus	Price
2025/26	115	5.29	1957	2	6	8	4.2	11	5.5 to 5.6
2024/25	54	4.60	1057	1	2	3	1.6	5	5.0 to 4.8
2023/24	11	2.38	416	0	2	0	1.7	0	5.5 to 5.3
2022/23	44	3.19	1242	1	2	2	4.0	5	6.0 to 5.8
2021/22	141	6.81	1863	5	9	7	0.0	26	5.5 to 6.5
2020/21	112	4.26	2367	1	3	9	0.0	15	5.0 to 5.1
2019/20	61	3.64	1510	0	2	5	0.0	5	5.0 to 4.9

Your team

Checking your squad.

Fixtures ahead

GW6
Bournemouth H
Sat 10 Oct, 15:00 · attack 14th of 20
3
GW7
Everton A
Sat 17 Oct, 12:30 · attack 12th of 20
3
GW8
Spurs H
Sat 24 Oct, 17:30 · attack 19th of 20
2
GW9
Man Utd H
Sat 31 Oct, 12:30 · attack 7th of 20
4
GW10
Sunderland A
Sun 8 Nov, 14:00 · attack 10th of 20
3
GW11
Leeds H
Sat 21 Nov, 15:00 · attack 11th of 20
3
GW12
Nott'm Forest A
Fri 27 Nov, 20:00 · attack 17th of 20
3
GW13
Crystal Palace H
Wed 2 Dec, 20:00 · attack 15th of 20
2

Average difficulty over the next five: 3. 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

Not expected to play94th of 217 defenders by PAR

Per gameweek: 1.2; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.3; best cheap defenders
PAR: -3.1; over the replacement
Per £m: -3.47; 0.9m above the floor

-2.3 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	0.0%	0.0%
Top 100k	0.7%	0.0%

GW5 estimates · 300 managers per cohort · Updated 3 Oct, 06:09 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 GW5 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 includes FPL’s finalized substitutions.

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

This gameweek

no change

price so far

Transfers in

656

80K out

Ownership, 7 days

0.0

percentage points

Towards a change

101%

falling

Tonight

101%

FPL's projection, falling

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penaltiesnot a taker
Club order: Palmer, Estêvão
Corners and indirect free kicks1st choice
Club order: James, Neto, Henderson
Direct free kicks1st choice
Club order: James, Palmer, Rogers

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