Which defenders receive the most defensive contribution points in FPL?

The scout explains why dominant central defenders will benefit from the new defensive contribution system in the Fantasy Premier League.

The addition of defense contributions in the imagination will help to reward certain types of players for their participation in a game.

Every defender who reaches a total of 10 evacuations, blocks, interceptions and tackles (CBites) in a match achieves two FPL points.

A quick look at the table below shows why central defenders are significantly reinforced by this introduction.

All top 10 defenders of this statistics in 2024/25 were central defenders James Tarkowski There are 44 points – that corresponds to 11 extra clean leaves or a little more than seven goals for a defender.

The Everton star received a success rate of 66.7 percent in 22 of his 33 starts for the Toffees defensive contribution points.

In the latest campaigns, Tarkowski was wide and away from the most reliable backline power value for defensive contribution points (DC).

In fact, he would have been in the last four seasons of No. 1 defender for this metric.

In particular, Everton is the only club that delivers more than one of the top 10 defenders in the evaluation Jarrad Branthwaite Collecting 32 defense contribution points over 28 starts.

Top 10 defense defensive contribution points 24/25

Increase for advertised defenders

The recording of Southampton's Jan BednarekLeicester City Faes and Ipswich Town Dara O'Shea In the table above also shows why central defenders will be one of the main beneficiaries for advertised clubs due to their many defensive contributions.

Bednarek led only 60 points in 2024/25 when the saints had returned to the championship. But his additional 40 defense contributions would have led him to 100 for the season and essentially equated 40 percent of his new points overall.

Similar to Tarkowski, Bednarek deserved in 66.7 percent of his games last season defensive contribution points – the second only 73.1 percent of Dean HuijsenBefore moving from AFC Bournemouth to Real Madrid this summer.

Who would have been the top scoring defenders overall last season?

First, a memory of the 10 top scoring defenders in fantasy reminds you last season.

Manchester City Josko Gvardiol led the way with 153 points with Liverpool couple Trent Alexander-Arnold And Virgil van Dijk Also among the top 5 together with Nottingham Forest's Nikola Milenkovic and Crystal Palace's Daniel Munoz.

If you classify Gvardiol as a central defender due to his move to this role for MAN City as a central defender in the second season, there is a 50-50 division between Center-Backs and full-back if you classify Gvardiol as central defense.

Top scoring defender in October 24th.

But when the defensive contribution points are added, up to eight central defenders take the top 10 places.

Forest Milenkovic And Murillo Last season had increased the two best places with their respective parts by 26 and 38 defense contributions.

Brentfords Nathan Collins Was another main benefit of the protection who received 32 defense contributions. For his record of 127 points from last season, this Collins would have raised fifth place among the defenders to 159 points – only four behind Man City's Gvardiol.

Above all, Tarkowski The top 10. His 105 points last season also put him together in his position. But these additional 44 defense contributions would have brought him a big leap to eighth place among defenders with 149 points.

Top scoring defender added with defensive contribution points

A comparison of the palace pair Munoz And Maxence Lacroix Also helps to underline the importance of defensive contribution points in the upcoming campaign.

Wing-Back Munoz was the fifth top scoring defender last season with 142 points, while his team-mate Lacroix with 114 points. was.

But with added defense contributions, both would have made the list of the top 10 defenders.

Lacroix improved his teammate for defensive contribution points by 34 to 14. This takes 148 points, only eight behind the 156 from Munoz.

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