The 2025/26 season is frozen in our database — every gameweek, every price move, every point. Before the 2026/27 reset wipes the slate, here is what the full-season numbers actually say, and the three lessons worth carrying forward.
The final top scorers
| Player | Club at season's end | Pos | Points | Final price | Owned by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haaland | Man City | FWD | 239 | £14.7m | 62.5% |
| B. Fernandes | Man Utd | MID | 235 | £10.4m | 48.0% |
| Gabriel | Arsenal | DEF | 209 | £7.3m | 45.4% |
| Semenyo | Man City | MID | 202 | £8.0m | 46.2% |
| Gibbs-White | Nott'm Forest | MID | 188 | £7.6m | 9.2% |
| Bowen | West Ham | FWD | 187 | £7.8m | 17.5% |
| Rice | Arsenal | MID | 184 | £7.2m | 23.3% |
| Thiago | Brentford | FWD | 181 | £7.2m | 30.2% |
| Anderson | Nott'm Forest | MID | 180 | £5.7m | 9.4% |
| Guéhi | Man City | DEF | 179 | £5.1m | 32.6% |
Haaland topping the chart surprises nobody. The rest of the table is more interesting: only four points separated him from Bruno Fernandes, who cost £4.3m less all season — and a defender, Gabriel, finished third overall. In the DefCon era, elite defenders are no longer a category you save money in; they're a category you spend in.
The value table nobody owned
Points per million is the budget manager's scoreboard — here's the top of it (minimum 100 points):
| Player | Pos | Points | Final price | Pts/£m | Owned by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guéhi | DEF | 179 | £5.1m | 35.1 | 32.6% |
| Truffert | DEF | 165 | £4.8m | 34.4 | 5.3% |
| Senesi | DEF | 175 | £5.2m | 33.7 | 22.0% |
| Mukiele | DEF | 151 | £4.6m | 32.8 | 8.7% |
| Anderson | MID | 180 | £5.7m | 31.6 | 9.4% |
| Van Hecke | DEF | 148 | £4.7m | 31.5 | 10.7% |
| Le Fée | MID | 147 | £4.8m | 30.6 | 1.6% |
| Garner | MID | 159 | £5.2m | 30.6 | 3.6% |
Two things jump out. First, six of the top eight value picks were defenders — DefCon points quietly rewrote the value curve, and managers who noticed early banked it all season. Second, look at the ownership column: Truffert at 5.3%, Le Fée at 1.6%, Garner at 3.6%. Elite value hid in plain sight all year at Bournemouth, Sunderland and Everton — promoted and unfashionable clubs where nobody was looking.
The differentials that paid
Gibbs-White is the season's case study: 188 points — fifth overall — at 9.2% ownership. For comparison, Semenyo scored 14 more points and was owned by five times as many managers. The lesson isn't "pick differentials" — most low-owned players are low-owned for good reason. It's that fifth-overall production went essentially unowned for a full season, which means the market (ownership) is measurably slower than the data. That gap is the entire reason this app exists — it's what the Trends differential finder is built to surface.
Three lessons for 2026/27
- Spend on defenders who do both jobs. Gabriel third overall and six defenders topping the value table is the same finding at both ends of the price range: clean sheets plus DefCon plus set-piece threat compounds into midfielder-class returns.
- Value lives where attention doesn't. The best pts/£m came from unfashionable clubs. When the 2026/27 promoted sides get priced, that's the first place to look.
- Ownership follows points; it doesn't predict them. The heavily-owned template was fine — but the market left a fifth-overall scorer at 9% for a year. Data in, opinion out.
All of these tables come straight from the player database — every number on this page is one click from its source. When the 2026/27 season launches, this analysis restarts from gameweek one, live.