Risers and Fallers of 2025/26
How 2025/26 compared to 2024/25, head-to-head. Filtered to players with at least 1,500 minutes in both seasons. Enough sample on either side to make the comparison fair.
Every Fantasy season produces two kinds of stories worth tracking. Breakouts, which are the players who arrived in a new role, a new system, or finally got the minutes to match the talent. And regressions, which are the players the market had priced as locked-in returners who quietly slipped down the order or out of the side entirely.
This page strips both stories down to one comparison: 2025/26 total points against the same player's 2024/25 total. No multi-year averaging, no career-best benchmarks, no fallback to older seasons. If a player didn't clear 1,500 minutes in both campaigns, they aren't here, which means some genuine arrivals like rookies and returning loanees are excluded by design. The list rewards comparison, not novelty.
Top 10 risers
Biggest year-over-year point gains. These were the season's positive surprises, players who out-produced the version of themselves the market expected to draft.
Everton placed two players in the top ten, Garner and Tarkowski, in very different roles and from very different starting points. The rest of the list spreads across seven other clubs, which suggests individual leaps rather than a single tactical shift driving multiple names from the same side.
Top 10 fallers
Biggest year-over-year drops. Worth splitting mentally into two buckets when you read these. Lost minutes from injury, rotation, or transfer, versus the same minutes producing fewer returns. The two profiles bounce back very differently in pre-season pricing.
Six of the top ten fallers saw their minutes drop by more than 30%, which makes most of these availability stories rather than loss-of-form stories. Injuries, rotation, lost starting spots. Worth weighing carefully before writing anyone off for 2026/27, because the points were paused rather than gone, and several of these names have a clearer path back than the absolute drop suggests.
Top 5 risers. 2024/25 vs 2025/26
What it means for 2026/27
Risers are the trickier category to act on in pre-season. The market sees the same data you do, and prices tend to chase last year's leaders before the new season starts. The useful question isn't whether a riser will repeat their absolute total. It's whether the underlying reason for the jump (new position, new system, new role) is still in place when 2026/27 pre-season prices land. If those structural factors are stable, the riser is real. If they're not, you're paying for last year.
Fallers split more cleanly. Players whose drop traces to lost minutes are usually one transfer or one contract decision away from a bounce, because the points were paused rather than lost. Players whose minutes held but whose returns sagged are the harder regressions to fade, because there's nothing obvious to fix and the underlying production is the problem itself.
The Players page tracks every move heading into 2026/27, which is useful for spotting which of these names hold up once prices reset for the new season.