Fantasy Premier League Player Rankings: Gameweek 1

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Updated on August 15, 2024 9:52AM EST

Welcome to RotoWire's weekly rankings for the official Fantasy Premier League game. The players for our rankings are pulled straight from the expected XIs found on our lineups page.

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MATCHES (ET)

3:00 pm: Manchester United vs. Fulham
7:30 am: Ipswich Town vs. Liverpool
10:00 am: Arsenal vs. Wolverhampton
10:00 am: Everton vs. Brighton & Hove Albion
10:00 am: Newcastle United vs. Southampton
10:00 am: Nottingham Forest vs. AFC Bournemouth
12:30 pm: West Ham United vs. Aston Villa
9:00 am: Brentford vs. Crystal Palace
11:30 am: Chelsea vs. Manchester City
3:00 pm: Leicester City vs. Tottenham Hotspur

For detailed stats and odds, check out the
Fantasy Premier League: Gameweek 1 Cheat Sheet

PLAYER RANKING

Overall Rank	FW Rank	MID Rank	DEF Rank	GK Rank	Player	Team	Matchup	Pos	Price	TSB%	Pts
1		1			Mohamed Salah	LIV	LIV at IPS	M	12.5	35.7	8.84
2		2			Bukayo Saka	ARS	ARS v. WOL	M	10.0	25.7	8.49
3		3			Anthony Gordon	NEW	NEW v. SOU	M	7.5	32.9	8.07
4	1				Alexander Isak	NEW	NEW v. SOU	F	8.5	55.2	8.07
5		4			Bruno Fernandes	MUN	MUN v. FUL	M	8.5	13.9	7.77
6		5			Martin Odegaard	ARS	ARS v. WOL	M	8.5	17.2	7.66
7		6			Son Heung-Min	TOT	TOT at LEI	M	10.0	11.4	7.65
8	2				Erling Haaland	MCI	MCI at CHE	F	15.0	43.1	7.64
9		7			Gabriel Martinelli	ARS	ARS v. WOL	M	7.0	3.9	7.47
10		8			Diogo Jota	LIV	LIV at IPS	M	7.5	4.1	7.44
11		9			Kevin De Bruyne	MCI	MCI at CHE	M	9.5	7.1	7.42
12		10			Alejandro Garnacho	MUN	MUN v. FUL	M	6.5	10.8	7.08
13		11			James Maddison	TOT	TOT at LEI	M	7.5	5.3	6.96
14	3				Kai Havertz	ARS	ARS v. WOL	F	8.0	14.5	6.98
15		12			Amad Diallo	MUN	MUN v. FUL	M	5.0	3.0	6.94
16		13			Bryan Mbeumo	BRE	BRE v. CRY	M	7.0	6.4	6.83
17		14			Brennan Johnson	TOT	TOT at LEI	M	6.5	1.7	6.74
18	4				Ivan Toney	BRE	BRE v. CRY	F	7.5	11.3	6.73
19		15			Luis Diaz	LIV	LIV at IPS	M	7.5	6.2	6.65
20			1		Trent Alexander-Arnold	LIV	LIV at IPS	D	7.0	22.4	6.60
21		16			Cole Palmer	CHE	CHE v. MCI	M	10.5	46.3	6.57
22	5				Joao Pedro	BHA	BHA at EVE	F	5.5	16.7	6.43
23		17			Antoine Semenyo	BOU	BOU at NFO	M	5.5	1.2	6.40
24		18			Dejan Kulusevski	TOT	TOT at LEI	M	6.5	2.0	6.28
25	6				Chris Wood	NFO	NFO v. BOU	F	6.0	5.1	6.32
26		19			Mohammed Kudus	WHU	WHU v. AVL	M	6.5	10.1	6.24
27		20			Jarrod Bowen	WHU	WHU v. AVL	M	7.5	7.5	6.21
28			2		Kostas Tsimikas	LIV	LIV at IPS	D	5.0	0.6	6.17
29		21			Leon Bailey	AVL	AVL at WHU	M	6.5	4.6	6.16
30		22			Eberechi Eze	CRY	CRY at BRE	M	7.0	33.2	6.13
31			3		Pedro Porro	TOT	TOT at LEI	D	5.5	28.9	6.08
32		23			Jacob Murphy	NEW	NEW v. SOU	M	5.5	0.7	6.10
33		24			Kaoru Mitoma	BHA	BHA at EVE	M	6.5	1.8	6.09
34		25			Stephy Mavididi	LEI	LEI v. TOT	M	5.5	1.0	6.09
35			4		Lewis Hall	NEW	NEW v. SOU	D	4.5	1.4	6.04
36			5		Ben White	ARS	ARS v. WOL	D	6.5	11.9	6.03
37		26			Jeremy Doku	MCI	MCI at CHE	M	6.5	3.0	6.03
38		27			Bernardo Silva	MCI	MCI at CHE	M	6.5	2.9	6.02
39		28			Anthony Elanga	NFO	NFO v. BOU	M	5.5	2.9	5.98
40		29			Christopher Nkunku	CHE	CHE v. MCI	M	6.5	18.1	5.98
41		30			Abdul Fatawu	LEI	LEI v. TOT	M	5.5	0.5	5.97
42	7				Ollie Watkins	AVL	AVL at WHU	F	9.0	48.6	5.93
43		31			Conor Chaplin	IPS	IPS v. LIV	M	5.5	0.4	5.92
44		32			Callum Hudson-Odoi	NFO	NFO v. BOU	M	5.5	5.4	5.92
45	8				Niclas Fullkrug	WHU	WHU v. AVL	F	7.0	1.9	5.92
46		33			Morgan Gibbs-White	NFO	NFO v. BOU	M	6.5	6.8	5.86
47			6		Valentino Livramento	NEW	NEW v. SOU	D	4.5	1.9	5.84
48		34			Marcus Tavernier	BOU	BOU at NFO	M	5.5	0.2	5.83
49	9				Joshua Zirkzee	MUN	MUN v. FUL	F	7.0	2.8	5.88
50			7		Josko Gvardiol	MCI	MCI at CHE	D	6.0	32.9	5.81
51			8		Valentin Barco	BHA	BHA at EVE	D	4.0	13.3	5.80
52	10				Yoane Wissa	BRE	BRE v. CRY	F	6.0	2.7	5.80
53		35			Bruno Guimaraes	NEW	NEW v. SOU	M	6.5	3.1	5.80
54		36			Harry Wilson	FUL	FUL at MUN	M	5.5	0.3	5.79
55			9		Oleksandr Zinchenko	ARS	ARS v. WOL	D	5.0	1.8	5.70
56		37			Justin Kluivert	BOU	BOU at NFO	M	5.5	0.5	5.71
57			10		Diogo Dalot	MUN	MUN v. FUL	D	5.0	6.3	5.64
58	11				Dominic Calvert-Lewin	EVE	EVE v. BHA	F	6.0	1.5	5.67
59	12				Rodrigo Muniz	FUL	FUL at MUN	F	6.0	7.8	5.66
60			11		Fabian Schar	NEW	NEW v. SOU	D	5.5	7.5	5.62
61			12		Destiny Udogie	TOT	TOT at LEI	D	5.0	4.7	5.58
62		38			Lucas Paqueta	WHU	WHU v. AVL	M	6.0	1.3	5.62
63			13		Gabriel	ARS	ARS v. WOL	D	6.0	11.6	5.60
64				1	Nick Pope	NEW	NEW v. SOU	G	5.0	5.8	5.57
65	13				Adam Armstrong	SOU	SOU at NEW	F	5.5	3.1	5.54
66			14		Kristoffer Ajer	BRE	BRE v. CRY	D	4.5	0.4	5.51
67		39			Wes Burns	IPS	IPS v. LIV	M	5.0	0.1	5.49
68	14				Odsonne Edouard	CRY	CRY at BRE	F	5.5	0.8	5.49
69		40			Dwight McNeil	EVE	EVE v. BHA	M	5.5	0.9	5.49
70			15		Tariq Lamptey	BHA	BHA at EVE	D	4.5	0.5	5.46
71		41			Dominik Szoboszlai	LIV	LIV at IPS	M	6.5	2.5	5.46
72			16		Leif Davis	IPS	IPS v. LIV	D	4.5	2.7	5.42
73		42			Abdoulaye Doucoure	EVE	EVE v. BHA	M	5.5	0.6	5.44
74		43			Jack Harrison	EVE	EVE v. BHA	M	5.5	0.2	5.44
75			17		Mads Roerslev	BRE	BRE v. CRY	D	4.5	0.2	5.40
76		44			Joelinton	NEW	NEW v. SOU	M	6.0	0.4	5.42
77	15				Danny Welbeck	BHA	BHA at EVE	F	5.5	0.4	5.41
78		45			Ben Brereton Diaz	SOU	SOU at NEW	M	5.0	0.2	5.40
79			18		Rico Lewis	MCI	MCI at CHE	D	4.5	0.3	5.38
80			19		Dan Burn	NEW	NEW v. SOU	D	4.5	20.0	5.36
81		46			Morgan Rogers	AVL	AVL at WHU	M	5.0	7.8	5.37
82		47			Daichi Kamada	CRY	CRY at BRE	M	5.5	0.6	5.37
83			20		William Saliba	ARS	ARS v. WOL	D	6.0	39.7	5.26
84				2	Mark Flekken	BRE	BRE v. CRY	G	4.5	14.2	5.35
85	16				Liam Delap	IPS	IPS v. LIV	F	5.5	0.5	5.35
86	17				Daniel Jebbison	BOU	BOU at NFO	F	4.5	0.8	5.30
87		48			Samuel Edozie	SOU	SOU at NEW	M	5.0	0.1	5.28
88		49			Declan Rice	ARS	ARS v. WOL	M	6.5	5.8	5.27
89		50			Noni Madueke	CHE	CHE v. MCI	M	6.5	0.7	5.27
90			21		Ian Maatsen	AVL	AVL at WHU	D	5.0	4.9	5.21
91		51			Jack Grealish	MCI	MCI at CHE	M	6.5	0.7	5.26
92			22		Kosta Nedeljkovic	AVL	AVL at WHU	D	4.0	0.2	5.09
93		52			John McGinn	AVL	AVL at WHU	M	5.5	2.1	5.19
94		53			Kasey McAteer	LEI	LEI v. TOT	M	5.0	0.1	5.17
95			23		Nathan Collins	BRE	BRE v. CRY	D	4.5	0.4	5.08
96		54			Omari Hutchinson	IPS	IPS v. LIV	M	5.5	1.0	5.11
97		55			Alexis Mac Allister	LIV	LIV at IPS	M	6.5	2.8	5.10
98		56			Hwang Hee-Chan	WOL	WOL at ARS	M	6.5	1.4	5.09
99			24		Ethan Pinnock	BRE	BRE v. CRY	D	4.5	0.5	5.05
100		57			Alex Iwobi	FUL	FUL at MUN	M	5.5	0.5	5.08
101			25		Virgil van Dijk	LIV	LIV at IPS	D	6.0	12.0	5.02
102			26		Manuel Akanji	MCI	MCI at CHE	D	5.5	4.0	4.99
103		58			Andreas Pereira	FUL	FUL at MUN	M	5.5	4.4	5.04
104			27		Vladimir Coufal	WHU	WHU v. AVL	D	4.5	0.9	4.97
105			28		Harry Maguire	MUN	MUN v. FUL	D	5.0	0.7	4.96
106		59			Sean Longstaff	NEW	NEW v. SOU	M	5.0	1.0	4.97
107			29		Victor Lindelof	MUN	MUN v. FUL	D	4.5	0.2	4.91
108			30		Daniel Munoz	CRY	CRY at BRE	D	5.0	4.2	4.90
109			31		Emerson	WHU	WHU v. AVL	D	4.5	0.2	4.87
110		60			Pablo Sarabia	WOL	WOL at ARS	M	5.5	0.3	4.90
111		61			James Ward-Prowse	WHU	WHU v. AVL	M	6.5	1.9	4.86
112		62			Mathias Jensen	BRE	BRE v. CRY	M	5.5	0.2	4.85
113			32		Ruben Dias	MCI	MCI at CHE	D	5.5	3.1	4.82
114			33		Ashley Young	EVE	EVE v. BHA	D	4.5	0.2	4.80
115			34		Ricardo Pereira	LEI	LEI v. TOT	D	4.5	0.4	4.79
116			35		Neco Williams	NFO	NFO v. BOU	D	4.5	0.7	4.78
117			36		Vitaliy Mykolenko	EVE	EVE v. BHA	D	4.5	12.3	4.77
118			37		Lisandro Martinez	MUN	MUN v. FUL	D	4.5	4.7	4.73
119			38		Ola Aina	NFO	NFO v. BOU	D	4.5	0.2	4.72
120			39		Nikola Milenkovic	NFO	NFO v. BOU	D	4.5	0.3	4.70
121			40		Micky van de Ven	TOT	TOT at LEI	D	4.5	7.5	4.67
122			41		Milos Kerkez	BOU	BOU at NFO	D	4.5	0.6	4.69
123		63			Bobby Decordova-Reid	LEI	LEI v. TOT	M	5.5	0.3	4.67
124			42		Cristian Romero	TOT	TOT at LEI	D	5.0	4.6	4.65
125		64			Kobbie Mainoo	MUN	MUN v. FUL	M	5.5	7.7	4.67
126		65			Danilo	NFO	NFO v. BOU	M	5.0	0.1	4.65
127			43		Ibrahima Konate	LIV	LIV at IPS	D	5.0	2.0	4.65
128			44		Malo Gusto	CHE	CHE v. MCI	D	5.0	2.9	4.62
129		66			Thomas Partey	ARS	ARS v. WOL	M	5.0	0.1	4.62
130	18				Jorgen Strand Larsen	WOL	WOL at ARS	F	5.5	0.2	4.60
131				3	Alisson	LIV	LIV at IPS	G	5.5	11.0	4.57
132		67			Casemiro	MUN	MUN v. FUL	M	5.0	0.3	4.59
133			45		James Tarkowski	EVE	EVE v. BHA	D	5.0	1.7	4.55
134			46		Joel Veltman	BHA	BHA at EVE	D	4.5	0.2	4.52
135		68			Pape Sarr	TOT	TOT at LEI	M	5.0	0.3	4.49
136			47		Tyrick Mitchell	CRY	CRY at BRE	D	5.0	2.6	4.50
137			48		Marcos Senesi	BOU	BOU at NFO	D	5.0	1.1	4.50
138				4	David Raya	ARS	ARS v. WOL	G	5.5	23.5	4.50
139		69			Youri Tielemans	AVL	AVL at WHU	M	5.5	0.6	4.49
140			49		Jake O'Brien	EVE	EVE v. BHA	D	5.0	0.2	4.47
141		70			Vitaly Janelt	BRE	BRE v. CRY	M	5.0	0.2	4.46
142		71			Wataru Endo	LIV	LIV at IPS	M	5.0	0.2	4.46
143		72			Rodrigo Bentancur	TOT	TOT at LEI	M	5.0	0.3	4.45
144				5	Ederson	MCI	MCI at CHE	G	5.5	6.1	4.40
145			50		Adam Smith	BOU	BOU at NFO	D	4.5	0.2	4.39
146			51		Murillo	NFO	NFO v. BOU	D	4.5	0.9	4.37
147			52		Adam Webster	BHA	BHA at EVE	D	4.5	0.2	4.36
148		73			Christian Norgaard	BRE	BRE v. CRY	M	5.0	0.1	4.44
149			53		Konstantinos Mavropanos	WHU	WHU v. AVL	D	4.5	0.2	4.35
150		74			Mateo Kovacic	MCI	MCI at CHE	M	5.5	0.2	4.36
151			54		James Justin	LEI	LEI v. TOT	D	4.5	0.4	4.30
152			55		Joachim Andersen	CRY	CRY at BRE	D	4.5	22.8	4.27
153			56		Pau Torres	AVL	AVL at WHU	D	4.5	1.6	4.27
154		75			Tomas Soucek	WHU	WHU v. AVL	M	5.0	2.4	4.35
155		76			Tom Cairney	FUL	FUL at MUN	M	5.0	0.1	4.25
156			57		Igor	BHA	BHA at EVE	D	4.5	0.2	4.22
157		77			William Smallbone	SOU	SOU at NEW	M	5.0	0.1	4.24
158		78			Joe Aribo	SOU	SOU at NEW	M	5.0	0.1	4.21
159			58		Marc Cucurella	CHE	CHE v. MCI	D	5.0	7.0	4.19
160			59		Max Kilman	WHU	WHU v. AVL	D	4.5	0.9	4.16
161			60		Chris Richards	CRY	CRY at BRE	D	4.5	0.2	4.13
162			61		Ezri Konsa	AVL	AVL at WHU	D	4.5	16.0	4.13
163			62		Timothy Castagne	FUL	FUL at MUN	D	4.5	3.4	4.13
164		79			Adam Wharton	CRY	CRY at BRE	M	5.0	0.7	4.19
165			63		Antonee Robinson	FUL	FUL at MUN	D	4.5	6.1	4.10
166			64		Kyle Walker-Peters	SOU	SOU at NEW	D	4.5	0.6	4.07
167		80			Rodrigo Gomes	WOL	WOL at ARS	M	5.5	0.3	4.11
168			65		Marc Guehi	CRY	CRY at BRE	D	4.5	9.2	4.07
169		81			Jefferson Lerma	CRY	CRY at BRE	M	5.0	0.1	4.07
170		82			Ryan Yates	NFO	NFO v. BOU	M	5.0	0.1	4.06
171			66		Rayan Ait-Nouri	WOL	WOL at ARS	D	4.5	3.4	3.99
172		83			James Garner	EVE	EVE v. BHA	M	5.0	0.1	4.02
173		84			Ryan Christie	BOU	BOU at NFO	M	5.0	0.2	3.99
174		85			Wilfred Ndidi	LEI	LEI v. TOT	M	5.0	0.2	3.98
175		86			Idrissa Gueye	EVE	EVE v. BHA	M	5.0	0.1	3.98
176			67		Matt Doherty	WOL	WOL at ARS	D	4.5	0.3	3.95
177			68		Wout Faes	LEI	LEI v. TOT	D	4.0	8.8	3.93
178			69		Illia Zabarnyi	BOU	BOU at NFO	D	4.5	0.5	3.93
179		87			Enzo Fernandez	CHE	CHE v. MCI	M	5.0	1.2	3.95
180		88			Mats Wieffer	BHA	BHA at EVE	M	5.0	0.1	3.92
181			70		Levi Colwill	CHE	CHE v. MCI	D	4.5	1.0	3.89
182			71		Jannik Vestergaard	LEI	LEI v. TOT	D	4.0	1.9	3.88
183		89			Amadou Onana	AVL	AVL at WHU	M	5.0	0.9	3.91
184			72		Benoit Badiashile	CHE	CHE v. MCI	D	4.5	0.2	3.87
185			73		Jack Stephens	SOU	SOU at NEW	D	4.0	0.3	3.85
186		90			Sam Morsy	IPS	IPS v. LIV	M	5.0	0.3	3.88
187		91			Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall	CHE	CHE v. MCI	M	6.0	0.5	3.83
188			74		Ben Johnson	IPS	IPS v. LIV	D	4.0	2.0	3.80
189			75		Taylor Harwood-Bellis	SOU	SOU at NEW	D	4.0	13.6	3.80
190		92			Flynn Downes	SOU	SOU at NEW	M	5.0	0.1	3.83
191			76		Cameron Burgess	IPS	IPS v. LIV	D	4.0	0.4	3.77
192		93			Massimo Luongo	IPS	IPS v. LIV	M	4.5	0.4	3.75
193		94			Harry Winks	LEI	LEI v. TOT	M	4.5	12.0	3.75
194		95			Lewis Cook	BOU	BOU at NFO	M	5.0	0.1	3.75
195				6	Dean Henderson	CRY	CRY at BRE	G	4.5	7.6	3.74
196			77		Calvin Bassey	FUL	FUL at MUN	D	4.5	0.3	3.66
197			78		Jan Bednarek	SOU	SOU at NEW	D	4.0	1.3	3.66
198		96			Mario Lemina	WOL	WOL at ARS	M	5.0	0.2	3.65
199			79		Jorge Cuenca	FUL	FUL at MUN	D	4.5	0.0	3.65
200		97			Sasa Lukic	FUL	FUL at MUN	M	5.0	0.0	3.62
201		98			James Milner	BHA	BHA at EVE	M	5.0	0.1	3.62
202			80		Luke Woolfenden	IPS	IPS v. LIV	D	4.0	1.3	3.61
203		99			Joao Gomes	WOL	WOL at ARS	M	5.0	0.1	3.56
204				7	Alphonse Areola	WHU	WHU v. AVL	G	4.5	10.9	3.52
205				8	Guglielmo Vicario	TOT	TOT at LEI	G	5.0	4.9	3.48
206				9	Jordan Pickford	EVE	EVE v. BHA	G	5.0	18.4	3.47
207			81		Toti Gomes	WOL	WOL at ARS	D	4.5	0.3	3.46
208				10	Andre Onana	MUN	MUN v. FUL	G	5.0	6.6	3.44
209		100			Romeo Lavia	CHE	CHE v. MCI	M	4.5	0.8	3.31
210				11	Jason Steele	BHA	BHA at EVE	G	4.5	0.5	3.27
211			82		Yerson Mosquera	WOL	WOL at ARS	D	4.0	0.4	3.21
212				12	Matz Sels	NFO	NFO v. BOU	G	4.5	0.9	2.95
213				13	Emiliano Martinez	AVL	AVL at WHU	G	5.0	13.3	2.05
214				14	Filip Jorgensen	CHE	CHE v. MCI	G	4.5	0.4	1.93
215				15	Arijanet Muric	IPS	IPS v. LIV	G	4.5	0.5	1.76
216				16	Neto	BOU	BOU at NFO	G	4.5	2.7	1.67
217				17	Bernd Leno	FUL	FUL at MUN	G	5.0	3.1	1.55
218				18	Mads Hermansen	LEI	LEI v. TOT	G	4.5	0.6	1.30
219				19	Alex McCarthy	SOU	SOU at NEW	G	4.5	0.3	0.79
220				20	Jose Sa	WOL	WOL at ARS	G	4.5	2.8	-1.09