Richards
Crystal Palace · DEF · £5.0m
World Cup USA 394 mins
1495.9, down 5.4 after 6 defensive actions against Man City (H)
Z-Score: DEF points per game are compared against a 2.48 average , spread 0.90. Measured against 2025-26, 42 players, because too few players have cleared the minutes bar this season.
Upcoming fixtures
2026/27 gameweek by gameweek
- GW2 Man City, home 0 pts 1495.9 Elo -5.4 rating change 6 defensive actions -4 BPS
- GW1 Everton, away 3 pts 1501.3 Elo -1.2 rating change 16 defensive actions 13 BPS
Season stats
Ownership
Percentage of FPL squads that have picked Richards right now.
Elo Glicko-style skill rating. It updates match by match and carries across seasons rather than resetting, so it is not a count of points scored.
It is built on 2 games, so most of this rating is still the starting assumption every player begins from, with about 17 per cent of it measured. Expect it to move a long way once matches are played.
FAPR Fixture-Adjusted Performance Rating. Adjusts PPG based on opponent difficulty faced.
2026 World Cup load
Richards played 394 minutes for USA, short of the 450 minute line, so this rating is held a little less firmly than a player who had the whole summer off.
Every rating carries a second number for how firmly it is held, called the rating deviation. A bigger deviation means the rating is less settled, so it moves further and faster once matches are played. It is not a mark against the player.
None of this is scored into the Elo rating. A World Cup is played against different opposition under different conditions, so counting it as Premier League evidence would make the number harder to defend. What a summer changes is how settled a rating is, not what it says.