Fantasy Premier League Rankings: October Update

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Updated on October 23, 2013 9:34PM EST

With Gareth Bale atop our Premier League preseason midfielder rankings, it's high time that we updated the list to reflect, at least, our new No. 1. Just like last time, I and three other RotoWire soccer contributors ranked our top-20 forwards, midfielders and defensemen, and our top-10 goalkeepers.
Points were assigned to each player based on their ranking by each writer: 20 points for a first place vote, 19 points for a second place vote, 18 points for a third place vote and so on.

We had no consensus top picks at any position, which just goes to show how weird of a Premier League season it's been so far. Our preseason list included unanimous top-choices of Robin van Persie at forward and Gareth Bale, who ended up not playing a single Premier League game this season before his move to Real Madrid, at midfield. Needless to say, it was time for an update.

Rankings last updated 10/23

	FORWARDS	MIDFIELDERS	DEFENDERS	GOALKEEPERS
1	Olivier Giroud	Mesut Ozil	Leighton Baines	Simon Mignolet
2	Romelu Lukaku	Oscar	Branislav Ivanovic	Petr Cech
3	Christan Benteke	Yaya Toure	Pablo Zabaleta	Hugo Lloris
4	Daniel Sturridge	Aaron Ramsey	Jan Vertonghen	Artur Boruc
5	Luis Suarez	Michu	Kyle Walker	Joe Hart
6	Robin van Persie	Eden Hazard	Seamus Coleman	Wojciech Szczesny
7	Sergio Aguero	Paulinho	David Luiz	Asmir Begovic
8	Wayne Rooney	Steven Gerrard	Glen Johnson	David de Gea
9	Loic Remy	David Silva	Patrice Evra	Tim Howard
10	Roberto Soldado	Andros Townsend	John Terry	Jussi Jaaskelainen
11	Alvaro Negredo	Frank Lampard	Jose Enrique
12	Wilfried Bony	Ross Barkley	Dejan Lovren
13	Rickie Lambert	Hatem Ben Arfa	Jose Fonte
14	Gabriel Agbonlahor	Santi Cazorla	Danny Rose
15	Samuel Eto'o	Theo Walcott	Per Mertesacker
16	Edin Dzeko	Marouane Fellaini	Daniel Agger
17	Fernando Torres	Emanuele Giaccherini	Curtis Davies
18	Darren Bent	Adnan Januzaj	Phil Jagielka
19	Danny Welbeck	Morgan Amalfitano	Kieran Gibbs
20	Fraizer Campbell	Ravel Morrison	Sylvan Distin

FORWARDS

#	OVERALL	PTS	LAIRD	MOSINSKI	PITNER	RADUNE
1	Olivier Giroud	75	Christian Benteke	Olivier Giroud	Luis Suarez	Romelu Lukaku
2	Romelu Lukaku	73	Luis Suarez	Luis Suarez	Olivier Giroud	Olivier Giroud
3	Christian Benteke	71	Romelu Lukaku	Romelu Lukaku	Sergio Aguero	Christian Benteke
4	Daniel Sturridge	60	Olivier Giroud	Christian Benteke	Romelu Lukaku	Robin van Persie
5	Luis Suarez	59	Daniel Sturridge	Wayne Rooney	Christian Benteke	Edin Dzeko
6	Robin van Persie	58	Sergio Aguero	Daniel Sturridge	Daniel Sturridge	Wayne Rooney
7	Sergio Aguero	57	Robin van Persie	Sergio Aguero	Robin van Persie	Daniel Sturridge
8	Wayne Rooney	55	Roberto Soldado	Robin van Persie	Wayne Rooney	Loic Remy
9	Loic Remy	45	Alvaro Negredo	Loic Remy	Alvaro Negredo	Gabriel Agbonlahor
10	Roberto Soldado	42	Wayne Rooney	Roberto Soldado	Loic Remy	Danny Welbeck
11	Alvaro Negredo	40	Wilfried Bony	Wilfried Bony	Roberto Soldado	Sergio Aguero
12	Wilfried Bony	33	Loic Remy	Rickie Lambert	Samuel Eto'o	Alvaro Negredo
13	Rickie Lambert	27	Fernando Torres	Fernando Torres	Wilfried Bony	Roberto Soldado
14	Gabriel Agbonlahor	22	Rickie Lambert	Alvaro Negredo	Rickie Lambert	Samuel Eto'o
15	Samuel Eto'o	19	Darren Bent	Ricky van Wolfswinkel	Andreas Weimann	Marouane Chamakh
16	Edin Dzeko	17	Gabriel Agbonlahor	Jay Rodriguez	Gabriel Agbonlahor	Wilfried Bony
17	Fernando Torres	16	Fraizer Campbell	Darren Bent	Papiss Cisse	Rickie Lambert
18	Darren Bent	14	Samuel Eto'o	Marko Arnautovic	Dimitar Berbatov	Darren Bent
19	Danny Welbeck	11	Dimitar Berbatov	Dwight Gayle	Fraizer Campbell	Nicika Jelavic
20	Fraizer Campbell	7	Edin Dzeko	Fraizer Campbell	Darren Bent	Luis Suarez

MIDFIELDERS

#	OVERALL	PTS	LAIRD	MOSINSKI	PITNER	RADUNE
1	Mesut Ozil	79	Mesut Ozil	Yaya Toure	Mesut Ozil	Mesut Ozil
2	Oscar	68	Eden Hazard	Mesut Ozil	Oscar	Aaron Ramsey
3	Yaya Toure	65	Oscar	Oscar	Aaron Ramsey	Andros Townsend
4	Aaron Ramsey	64	Yaya Toure	Paulinho	Eden Hazard	David Silva
5	Michu	62	Michu	Ross Barkley	Yaya Toure	Moussa Dembele
6	Eden Hazard	57	Aaron Ramsey	Michu	Michu	Michu
7	Paulinho	45	Paulinho	Frank Lampard	David Silva	Fabian Delph
8	Steven Gerrard	43	Marouane Fellaini	Emanuele Giaccherini	Andros Townsend	Oscar
9	David Silva	42	Frank Lampard	Aaron Ramsey	Steven Gerrard	Yaya Toure
10	Andros Townsend	42	Hatem Ben Arfa	Eden Hazard	Santi Cazorla	Steven Gerrard
11	Frank Lampard	34	Steven Gerrard	Steven Gerrard	Paulinho	Eden Hazard
12	Ross Barkley	30	David Silva	Hatem Ben Arfa	Hatem Ben Arfa	Adam Lallana
13	Hatem Ben Arfa	29	Santi Cazorla	Theo Walcott	Frank Lampard	Adnan Januzaj
14	Santi Cazorla	19	Ross Barkley	Gylfi Sigurdsson	Ross Barkley	Theo Walcott
15	Theo Walcott	14	Andros Townsend	Ravel Morrison	Theo Walcott	Fernandinho
16	Marouane Fellaini	13	Yohan Cabaye	Andros Townsend	Morgan Amalfitano	Mark Noble
17	Emanuele Giaccherini	13	Ramires	Jonjo Shelvey	Kevin Mirallas	Paulinho
T18	Adnan Januzaj	9	Victor Moses	Morgan Amalfitano	Ramires	Gareth Barry
T18	Morgan Amalfitano	9	Ravel Morrison	David Silva	Adam Lallana	Michael Carrick
20	Ravel Morrison	8	Adnan Januzaj	Mohamed Diame	Samir Nasri	Morgan Amalfitano

DEFENSEMEN

#	OVERALL	PTS	LAIRD	MOSINSKI	PITNER	RADUNE
1	Leighton Baines	78	Leighton Baines	Leighton Baines	Leighton Baines	Glen Johnson
2	Branislav Ivanovic	71	Branislav Ivanovic	Branislav Ivanovic	Branislav Ivanovic	Curtis Davies
3	Pablo Zabaleta	56	Kyle Walker	Daniel Agger	Jan Vertonghen	Leighton Baines
4	Jan Vertonghen	55	Jan Vertonghen	Pablo Zabaleta	John Terry	Jan Vertonghen
5	Kyle Walker	47	Pablo Zabaleta	Kieran Gibbs	Seamus Coleman	Sylvan Distin
6	Seamus Coleman	42	Seamus Coleman	David Luiz	Kyle Walker	Danny Rose
7	David Luiz	42	Per Mertesacker	Kyle Walker	David Luiz	Branislav Ivanovic
8	Glen Johnson	41	David Luiz	Jose Fonte	Dejan Lovren	Martin Skrtel
9	Patrice Evra	35	Patrice Evra	John Terry	Jose Enrique	Pablo Zabaleta
10	John Terry	33	Jose Fonte	Seamus Coleman	Pablo Zabaleta	Patrice Evra
11	Jose Enrique	30	Phil Jagielka	Jose Enrique	Glen Johnson	Ben Davies
12	Dejan Lovren	29	Dejan Lovren	Patrice Evra	Per Mertesacker	Chico
13	Jose Fonte	28	Jose Fonte	Aleksander Kolarov	Gareth McAuley	Jonas Olsson
14	Danny Rose	27	Glen Johnson	Dejan Lovren	Phil Jagielka	Nemanja Vidic
T15	Per Mertesacker	23	Danny Rose	Danny Rose	Chico	Robert Huth
T15	Daniel Agger	23	Gareth McAuley	Robert Huth	Daniel Agger	Gary Cahill
17	Curtis Davies	19	John Terry	Glen Johnson	Jose Fonte	Ashley Williams
18	Phil Jagielka	17	Vincent Kompany	Jan Vertonghen	Patrice Evra	Michael Dawson
19	Kieran Gibbs	16	Gary Cahill	Guy Demel	Matija Nastastic	Aleksander Kolarov
T19	Sylvan Distin	16	Ryan Shawcross	Gary Cahill	Erik Pieters	Phil Jones

GOALKEEPERS

#	OVERALL	PTS	LAIRD	MOSINSKI	PITNER	RADUNE
1	Simon Mignolet	39	Petr Cech	Simon Mignolet	Simon Mignolet	Simon Mignolet
2	Petr Cech	33	Simon Mignolet	Hugo Lloris	Petr Cech	Brad Guzan
3	Hugo Lloris	28	Joe Hart	Petr Cech	Asmir Begovic	Artur Boruc
4	Artur Boruc	25	Artur Boruc	Joe Hart	Hugo Lloris	Hugo Lloris
5	Joe Hart	21	Wojciech Szczesny	David de Gea	Petr Cech	Petr Cech
T6	Wojciech Szczesny	16	Hugo Lloris	Artur Boruc	Artur Boruc	Asmir Begovic
T6	Asmir Begovic	16	David de Gea	Tim Howard	Tim Howard	Wojciech Szczesny
8	David de Gea	13	Asmir Begovic	Wojciech Szczesny	Petr Cech	Jussi Jaaskelainen
9	Tim Howard	10	Jussi Jaaskelainen	Jussi Jaaskelainen	Jussi Jaaskelainen	David de Gea
10	Jussi Jaaskelainen	9	Tim Howard	Maarten Stekelenburg	David de Gea	Tim Howard