In our preparation for the inaugural Fantasy Premier League Draft we've been ranking the division's players, by position and looked at how the Fantasy Premier League site itself would rank all the available players if an auto-pick situation occurred.
We've now looked at our Top 150 players in the Premier League which will help you decide on your 15 man squad in a 10 team Draft League.
Top 10:
1. Romelu Lukaku (Man Utd)
Man Utd's new signing Romelu Lukaku is our top striker pick and top pick overall. He has proven himself in the league, scoring 25 goals and providing six assists for Everton last season. In all he has scored 85 goals and provided 35 assists in his five full seasons in the league. His move to Man Utd will provide him with better reception from team mates at a higher level, and based on his opening fixtures he is top of our draft list.
2. Harry Kane (Spurs)
At number two overall is Harry Kane. Kane is another proven Fantasy Premier point scorer, scoring 29 goals in just 30 appearances last season, totaling 75 goals in his first three full seasons in the first team. The only thing keeping him off our top spot is Lukaku's fixtures.
3. Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal)
Sanchez is our third pick overall, with news filtering out that he will be staying at Arsenal for at least the season ahead, we have also moved him into first place in our midfielder rankings. He has been a constant goal threat based on his performances in the last three seasons in the Premier League he cannot be ignored. Sanchez racked up 24 goals and 11 assists last season as Arsenal finished a disappointing fifth. In total he has scored 53 goals and provided 25 assists in 103 Premier League appearances since joining Arsenal 2014.
4. Kevin De Bruyne (Man City)
De Bruyne is the safest route into Man City's for Fantasy Premier League managers going into gameweek one, his 6 goals and 21 assists last season also had something to do with us putting placing the Belgian top of our midfielder rankings list.
5. Dele Alli (Spurs)
Alli has a very good opening run to the season, and provided 18 goals and 11 assists from midfield last term. This form has led us to place him number five in our rankings.
40 - Dele Alli (40) has had a hand in as many PL goals before turning 21 as Lampard (15), Gerrard (13) & Beckham (12) combined. Star. pic.twitter.com/fWzi2Crd2Y
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) April 8, 2017
6. Sergio Aguero (Man City)
Aguero has been Man City’s primary goal threat for the last number of seasons, and still deserves a place high in our top 10, when he plays he scores consistently. New signing Gabriel Jesus and how this partnership pans out will be key to Aguero and Man City’s season, but most important vital to his draft managers.
7. Gabriel Jesus (Man City)
Jesus made an instant impression in his first season with Man City, providing seven goals and four assists in his 10 appearances. Like Aguero his points tally may be affected by his strike partner and how the duo are deployed by Pep, but never the less he is worth a draft pick early on.
8. Alvaro Morata (Chelsea)
Morata is a newcomer to the league, but in joining champions Chelsea, he will be given ample opportunity to improve upon his impressive display last season where he provided 15 goals and five assists in just 1331 minutes in La Liga, which equates to less than 15 full 90 minute spells rather than 26 appearances he made for Real Madrid . Diego Costa’s uncertain future will also work in Morata’s favour in the battle for minutes early on in the season.
9. Eden Hazard (Chelsea)
Although currently injured. Hazard is worth using an early draft pick on, as when he becomes fit he will be a great asset to any Draft manager. He has scored 53 goals and provided 49 assists across his five seasons and Chelsea, these stats make him a must have when he is playing.
10. Christian Eriksen (Spurs)
Eriksen is often overlooked by Fantasy managers preoccupied with Kane and Alli, but with no squad limit of three players per club in the draft game Eriksen deservedly places fifth in our list of midfielders and tenth overall having chipped in with eight goals and 20 assists last season.
Top 11-150
11. Sadio Mane (Liverpool)
12. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal)
13. Javier Hernandez (West Ham)
14. Paul Pogba (Man Utd)
15. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea)
16. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool)
17. Mesut Ozil (Arsenal)
18. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
19. Gary Cahill (Chelsea)
20. James Milner (Liverpool)
21. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea)
22. Jermaine Defoe (Bournemouth)
23. Willian (Chelsea)
24. Manolo Gabbiadini (Southampton)
25. Charlie Austin (Southampton)
26. Joshua King (Bournemouth)
27. Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester)
28. Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace)
29. Jamie Vardy (Leicester)
30. Marcus Rashford (Man Utd)
31. Raheem Sterling (Man City)
32. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal)
33. Adam Lallana (Liverpool)
34. Bernardo Silva (Man City)
35. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace)
36. Toby Alderweireld (Spurs)
37. Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal)
38. Antonio Valencia (Man Utd)
39. David Luiz (Chelsea)
40. Jan Vertonghen (Spurs)
41. Philipe Coutinho (Liverpool)
42. David Silva (Man City)
43. Dusan Tadic (Southampton)
44. Leroy Sane (Man City)
45. Eric Bailly (Man Utd
46. Ryan Bertrand (Southampton)
47. Marcus Rashford (Man Utd)
48. Kyle Walker (Man City)
49. Wayne Rooney (Everton)
50. Sandro Ramirez (Everton)
51. Troy Deeney (Watford)
52. Jay Rodriguez (West Brom)
53. Cesc Fabregas (Chelsea)
54. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester)
55. Marko Arnautovic (West Ham)56.
56. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool)
57. Andre Ayew (West Ham)
58. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool)
59. Saloman Rondon (West Brom)
60. Diego Costa (Chelsea)
61. Andre Gray (Burnley)
62. Stefano Okaka (Watford)
63. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle)
64. Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke)
65. Glenn Murray (Brighton)
66. Sam Vokes (Burnley)
67. Saido Berahino (Stoke)
68. Theo Walcott (Arsenal)
69. Jon Walters (Burnley)
70. Mark Noble (West Ham)
71. Nacho Monreal (Arsenal)
72. Danilo (Man City)
73. Maya Yoshida (Southampton)
74. John Stones (Man City)
75. Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea)
76. Kieran Trippier (Spurs)
77. Hector Bellerin (Arsenal)
78. Antonio Rudiger (Chelsea)
79. Joel Matip (Liverpool)
80. Leighton Baines (Everton)
81. Manuel Lanzini (West Ham)
82. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton)
83. Pascal Gross (Brighton)
84. Tom Ince (Huddersfield)
85. Juan Mata (Man Utd)
86. Jordan Henderson (Liverpool)
87. Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Man Utd)
88. Matt Ritchie (Newcastle)
89. Davy Klassen (Everton)
90. Nathan Redmond (Southampton)
91. Pedro (Chelsea) (New Entry: Returning from a facial injury, but his gametime will be limited)
92. Steven Davis (Southampton)
93. Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace)
94. Ander Herrera (Man Utd)
95. Anthony Martial (Man Utd)
96. Granit Xhaka (Arsenal)
97. Jack Stephens (Southampton)
98. Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal)
99. Ashley Williams (Everton)
100. Michael Keane (Everton)
101. Jacob Murphy (Newcastle)
102. Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace)
103. Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke)
104. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Crystal Palace)
105. Scott Arfield (Burnley)
106. Nacer Chadli (West Brom)
107. Thibaut Courtois (Chelsea)
108. Hugo Lloris (Spurs)
109. David De Gea (Man Utd)
110. Petr Cech (Arsenal)
111. Chris Smalling (Man Utd)
112. Ben Davies (Spurs)
113. Fraser Forster (Southampton)
114. Tom Heaton (Burnley)
115. Ederson (Man City)
116. Joe Hart (West Ham)
117. Jordan Pickford (Everton)
118. Ben Mee (Burnley)
119. Craig Dawson (West Brom)
120. Matteo Darmian (Man Utd)
121. Christian Fuchs (Leicester)
122. Jonny Evans (West Brom)
123. Ryan Shawcross (Stoke)
124. Simon Mignolet (Liverpool)
125. Ben Foster (West Brom)
126. Jack Butland (Stoke)
127. Kurt Zouma (Stoke)
128. Nathan Ake (Bournemouth)
129. Asmir Begovic (Bournemouth)
130. Harry Maguire (Leicester)
131. Jose Holebas (Watford)
132. Charlie Daniels (Bournemouth)
133. Aaron Cresswell (West Ham)
134. Alfie Mawson (Swansea)136.
135. Erik Pieters (Stoke)
136. Heurelho Gomes (Watford)
137. Lukasz Fabianski (Swansea)
138. Kasper Schmeichel (Leicester)
139. Patrick Van Aanholt (Crystal Palace)
140. Virgil Van Dijk (Southampton)
141. Cedric (Southampton)
142. Stephen Ward (Burnley)
143. Scott Dann (Crystal Palace)
144. Gareth McAuley (West Brom)
145. Wayne Hennessy (Crystal Palace)
146. Rob Elliot (Newcastle)
147. Mathew Ryan (Brighton)
148. Ciaran Clark (Newcastle)
149. Kyle Naughton (Swansea)
150. Wes Morgan (Leicester)
