Fantrax Premier League Player Rankings: Gameweek 1

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Published on August 12, 2021

Welcome back for another season of our weekly Fantrax Premier League player rankings. A few reminders before we jump in:

The rankings are based on Fantrax's standard scoring rules, with player positions individually chosen for those who have dual eligibility.
The players ranked are those in our projected lineups, and everyone is ranked as if they will play 90 minutes. Yes, not every starter plays 90 minutes, but they are ranked with the same minutes expectation in case they do play full matches.
Each player is assigned an index score, which resembles a specific fantasy-point projection. The floor points include everything except goals, assists and clean sheets.
Our projected lineups are updated throughout the week based on injuries, manager press conferences and other information, but the rankings do not automatically update. However, we will update them at various points before gameweeks begin.

MATCHES (EDT)

Friday, 3:00 pm: Brentford vs. Arsenal
Saturday, 7:30 am: Manchester United vs. Leeds United
Saturday, 10:00 am: Burnley vs. Brighton & Hove Albion
Saturday, 10:00 am: Chelsea vs. Crystal Palace
Saturday, 10:00 am: Everton vs. Southampton
Saturday, 10:00 am: Leicester City vs. Wolverhampton
Saturday, 10:00 am: Watford vs. Aston Villa
Saturday, 12:30 pm: Norwich City vs. Liverpool
Sunday, 9:00 am: Newcastle United vs. West Ham United
Sunday, 11:30 am: Tottenham Hotspur vs. Manchester City

PLAYER RANKINGS

Note: all columns are sortable.

Overall Rank	Pos Rank	Floor Rank	Pos Floor Rank	Player	Matchup	Pos	Pts	Floor
1	1	1	1	Bruno Fernandes	MUN v. LEE	M	20.56	12.80
2	1	8	3	Mohamed Salah	LIV at NOR	F	20.21	10.82
3	2	15	7	Diogo Jota	LIV at NOR	F	19.17	10.19
4	3	5	1	Sadio Mane	LIV at NOR	F	18.71	11.52
5	1	12	1	Trent Alexander-Arnold	LIV at NOR	D	17.37	10.49
6	2	3	3	Mason Mount	CHE v. CRY	M	17.32	12.47
7	4	18	9	Timo Werner	CHE v. CRY	F	16.81	9.74
8	3	2	2	Jack Grealish	MCI at TOT	M	16.67	12.53
9	4	4	4	Emiliano Buendia	AVL at WAT	M	16.22	11.94
10	5	6	5	Kai Havertz	CHE v. CRY	M	15.86	11.20
11	5	11	5	Nicolas Pepe	ARS at BRE	F	15.85	10.67
12	6	9	4	Riyad Mahrez	MCI at TOT	F	15.54	10.77
13	2	14	2	Reece James	CHE v. CRY	D	15.49	10.27
14	7	13	6	Leon Bailey	AVL at WAT	F	15.47	10.41
15	6	10	6	Paul Pogba	MUN v. LEE	M	15.43	10.76
16	7	16	7	James Maddison	LEI v. WOL	M	15.02	10.10
17	3	29	5	Ben Chilwell	CHE v. CRY	D	14.77	8.71
18	8	32	17	Michail Antonio	WHU at NEW	M	14.20	8.68
19	9	22	11	Harvey Barnes	LEI v. WOL	M	14.17	9.26
20	10	20	9	Anwar El Ghazi	AVL at WAT	M	13.93	9.67
21	8	42	14	Mason Greenwood	MUN v. LEE	F	13.87	8.21
22	9	41	13	Dominic Calvert-Lewin	EVE v. SOU	F	13.60	8.25
23	10	7	2	Said Benrahma	WHU at NEW	F	13.58	10.90
24	11	36	11	Gabriel Jesus	MCI at TOT	F	13.56	8.38
25	12	47	16	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	ARS at BRE	F	13.50	8.12
26	13	69	23	Jamie Vardy	LEI v. WOL	F	13.47	7.42
27	14	35	10	Alexandre Lacazette	ARS at BRE	F	13.40	8.46
28	11	28	15	James Rodriguez	EVE v. SOU	M	13.01	8.81
29	4	25	4	Joao Cancelo	MCI at TOT	D	12.69	9.15
30	12	31	16	Emile Smith-Rowe	ARS at BRE	M	12.65	8.68
31	13	27	14	Daniel James	MUN v. LEE	M	12.51	8.98
32	15	60	21	Danny Ings	AVL at WAT	F	12.33	7.60
33	14	34	19	Pablo Fornals	WHU at NEW	M	12.28	8.53
34	16	111	28	Callum Wilson	NEW v. WHU	F	12.21	6.48
35	17	50	17	Raheem Sterling	MCI at TOT	F	12.19	8.00
36	15	61	32	Jarrod Bowen	WHU at NEW	M	12.05	7.59
37	16	24	12	Andros Townsend	EVE v. SOU	M	11.77	9.19
38	18	40	12	Raphinha	LEE at MUN	F	11.74	8.31
39	5	30	6	Lucas Digne	EVE v. SOU	D	11.57	8.69
40	19	17	8	Adama Traore	WOL at LEI	F	11.51	9.94
41	17	48	25	Emmanuel Dennis	WAT v. AVL	M	11.36	8.06
42	20	53	18	Joelinton	NEW v. WHU	F	11.22	7.97
43	6	23	3	Ricardo Pereira	LEI v. WOL	D	11.22	9.23
44	21	115	30	Son Heung-Min	TOT v. MCI	F	11.19	6.44
45	7	46	7	Luke Shaw	MUN v. LEE	D	11.06	8.13
46	22	86	24	Che Adams	SOU at EVE	F	10.99	7.04
47	23	56	20	Rodrigo	LEE at MUN	F	10.97	7.82
48	8	85	15	Kieran Tierney	ARS at BRE	D	10.85	7.05
49	9	49	8	Matty Cash	AVL at WAT	D	10.82	8.01
50	18	58	30	Alex Iwobi	EVE v. SOU	M	10.77	7.66
51	10	83	14	Cedric Soares	ARS at BRE	D	10.77	7.07
52	11	78	12	Cesar Azpilicueta	CHE v. CRY	D	10.73	7.17
53	19	37	20	Jorginho	CHE v. CRY	M	10.67	8.36
54	20	33	18	Ayoze Perez	LEI v. WOL	M	10.63	8.60
55	21	59	31	Leandro Trossard	BHA at BRN	M	10.61	7.64
56	22	52	27	Ilkay Gundogan	MCI at TOT	M	10.60	7.98
57	23	77	41	Jack Harrison	LEE at MUN	M	10.57	7.18
58	24	108	27	Ivan Toney	BRE v. ARS	F	10.56	6.54
59	24	19	8	Thiago Alcantara	LIV at NOR	M	10.46	9.74
60	12	135	27	Joel Matip	LIV at NOR	D	10.45	5.99
61	13	70	9	Joel Veltman	BHA at BRN	D	10.33	7.36
62	25	68	36	Nathan Redmond	SOU at EVE	M	10.22	7.43
63	26	74	39	Lucas Moura	TOT v. MCI	M	10.19	7.24
64	14	71	10	Matt Targett	AVL at WAT	D	10.17	7.33
65	25	55	19	Ismaila Sarr	WAT v. AVL	F	10.10	7.83
66	15	128	24	Ibrahima Konate	LIV at NOR	D	10.09	6.06
67	27	21	10	Naby Keita	LIV at NOR	M	10.07	9.26
68	26	116	31	Chris Wood	BRN v. BHA	F	10.06	6.41
69	16	82	13	Vladimir Coufal	WHU at NEW	D	10.06	7.08
70	28	26	13	N'Golo Kante	CHE v. CRY	M	10.05	9.09
71	29	51	26	Pascal Gross	BHA at BRN	M	10.03	8.00
72	27	118	32	Neal Maupay	BHA at BRN	F	9.93	6.35
73	28	147	36	Patrick Bamford	LEE at MUN	F	9.90	5.73
74	30	44	24	Solomon March	BHA at BRN	M	9.89	8.14
75	17	144	29	Antonio Rudiger	CHE v. CRY	D	9.74	5.79
76	31	38	21	Tomas Soucek	WHU at NEW	M	9.73	8.36
77	29	45	15	Sergi Canos	BRE v. ARS	F	9.70	8.14
78	18	107	18	Tyrone Mings	AVL at WAT	D	9.68	6.55
79	30	62	22	Francisco Trincao	WOL at LEI	F	9.67	7.59
80	32	57	29	Ken Sema	WAT v. AVL	M	9.61	7.80
81	19	95	16	Adam Webster	BHA at BRN	D	9.58	6.84
82	20	109	19	Lewis Dunk	BHA at BRN	D	9.57	6.50
83	21	76	11	Caglar Soyuncu	LEI v. WOL	D	9.51	7.21
84	31	94	26	Christian Benteke	CRY at CHE	F	9.48	6.86
85	22	156	35	Kostas Tsimikas	LIV at NOR	D	9.46	5.38
86	32	148	37	Aaron Connolly	BHA at BRN	F	9.41	5.72
87	33	43	23	Jacob Murphy	NEW v. WHU	M	9.33	8.15
88	23	102	17	Michael Keane	EVE v. SOU	D	9.23	6.68
89	24	123	21	Ezri Konsa	AVL at WAT	D	9.20	6.17
90	34	80	43	Dele Alli	TOT v. MCI	M	9.18	7.14
91	25	124	22	Pablo Mari	ARS at BRE	D	9.17	6.12
92	33	146	35	Raul Jimenez	WOL at LEI	F	9.14	5.74
93	26	125	23	Aaron Wan-Bissaka	MUN v. LEE	D	9.11	6.11
94	27	132	25	Aaron Cresswell	WHU at NEW	D	9.08	6.01
95	34	112	29	Bryan Mbeumo	BRE v. ARS	F	9.00	6.48
96	28	158	37	Thiago Silva	CHE v. CRY	D	8.92	5.30
97	29	134	26	Seamus Coleman	EVE v. SOU	D	8.86	6.00
98	35	139	34	Matej Vydra	BRN v. BHA	F	8.79	5.96
99	35	54	28	Scott McTominay	MUN v. LEE	M	8.73	7.93
100	36	96	52	Todd Cantwell	NOR v. LIV	M	8.71	6.83
101	30	149	30	Kyle Walker	MCI at TOT	D	8.62	5.70
102	37	39	22	Enock Mwepu	BHA at BRN	M	8.54	8.33
103	1	64	2	Illan Meslier	LEE at MUN	G	8.53	7.51
104	36	165	38	Teemu Pukki	NOR v. LIV	F	8.42	5.05
105	38	75	40	Dwight McNeil	BRN v. BHA	M	8.37	7.24
106	39	72	37	Miguel Almiron	NEW v. WHU	M	8.36	7.30
107	37	92	25	Steven Bergwijn	TOT v. MCI	F	8.30	6.88
108	2	63	1	Vicente Guaita	CRY at CHE	G	8.28	7.58
109	40	88	47	Stuart Armstrong	SOU at EVE	M	8.26	6.98
110	41	143	78	Wilfried Zaha	CRY at CHE	M	8.17	5.79
111	42	67	35	Ruben Neves	WOL at LEI	M	7.92	7.46
112	43	65	33	Wilfred Ndidi	LEI v. WOL	M	7.89	7.49
113	31	163	41	Ryan Bertrand	LEI v. WOL	D	7.87	5.16
114	44	79	42	Declan Rice	WHU at NEW	M	7.77	7.15
115	32	119	20	James Tarkowski	BRN v. BHA	D	7.73	6.33
116	45	91	50	Lukas Rupp	NOR v. LIV	M	7.68	6.90
117	3	110	3	David Raya	BRE v. ARS	G	7.67	6.48
118	33	151	31	Ben Godfrey	EVE v. SOU	D	7.57	5.53
119	46	81	44	John McGinn	AVL at WAT	M	7.55	7.12
120	47	66	34	Nemanja Matic	MUN v. LEE	M	7.55	7.47
121	34	166	43	Ben White	ARS at BRE	D	7.51	5.05
122	35	178	52	John Stones	MCI at TOT	D	7.51	4.38
123	48	97	53	Youri Tielemans	LEI v. WOL	M	7.41	6.78
124	36	157	36	Harry Maguire	MUN v. LEE	D	7.37	5.35
125	49	93	51	Matt Ritchie	NEW v. WHU	M	7.37	6.87
126	4	209	16	Alisson Becker	LIV at NOR	G	7.36	2.67
127	50	73	38	Joao Moutinho	WOL at LEI	M	7.34	7.29
128	5	189	7	Emiliano Martinez	AVL at WAT	G	7.28	3.76
129	51	103	58	Abdoulaye Doucoure	EVE v. SOU	M	7.26	6.64
130	37	175	49	Ruben Dias	MCI at TOT	D	7.25	4.76
131	38	122	33	Jordan Ayew	CRY at CHE	F	7.25	6.22
132	52	114	63	Fabinho	LIV at NOR	M	7.24	6.46
133	38	155	34	Ben Mee	BRN v. BHA	D	7.18	5.43
134	39	167	44	Romain Perraud	SOU at EVE	D	7.17	4.97
135	53	136	73	Mateusz Klich	LEE at MUN	M	7.15	5.98
136	54	137	74	Nathan Tella	SOU at EVE	M	7.13	5.98
137	55	113	62	Imran Louza	WAT v. AVL	M	7.12	6.47
138	56	84	45	Rodri	MCI at TOT	M	7.12	7.07
139	57	87	46	Oriol Romeu	SOU at EVE	M	7.12	7.03
140	40	169	45	Craig Dawson	WHU at NEW	D	7.10	4.94
141	58	101	57	Josh Brownhill	BRN v. BHA	M	7.04	6.69
142	59	90	49	Yves Bissouma	BHA at BRN	M	7.04	6.93
143	60	117	64	Jeffrey Schlupp	CRY at CHE	M	7.04	6.39
144	61	131	71	Stuart Dallas	LEE at MUN	M	7.03	6.02
145	62	89	48	Kalvin Phillips	LEE at MUN	M	7.02	6.94
146	63	98	54	Tom Cleverley	WAT v. AVL	M	6.98	6.76
147	41	182	56	Daniel Amartey	LEI v. WOL	D	6.91	4.26
148	64	99	55	Pierre Lees-Melou	NOR v. LIV	M	6.89	6.70
149	65	145	79	Mohamed Elneny	ARS at BRE	M	6.89	5.75
150	42	160	39	Matthew Lowton	BRN v. BHA	D	6.82	5.19
151	43	140	28	Mohammed Salisu	SOU at EVE	D	6.80	5.90
152	44	159	38	Romain Saiss	WOL at LEI	D	6.74	5.21
153	6	199	12	Robert Sanchez	BHA at BRN	G	6.72	3.44
154	45	180	54	Issa Diop	WHU at NEW	D	6.71	4.35
155	46	153	33	Jeremy Ngakia	WAT v. AVL	D	6.69	5.50
156	7	183	6	Jordan Pickford	EVE v. SOU	G	6.63	4.21
157	66	100	56	Billy Gilmour	NOR v. LIV	M	6.56	6.70
158	47	173	47	Charlie Taylor	BRN v. BHA	D	6.50	4.77
159	8	216	20	Edouard Mendy	CHE v. CRY	G	6.48	2.32
160	48	152	32	Jan Bednarek	SOU at EVE	D	6.47	5.51
161	9	203	14	Bernd Leno	ARS at BRE	G	6.44	3.22
162	49	171	46	Nelson Semedo	WOL at LEI	D	6.40	4.87
163	67	127	68	Ashley Westwood	BRN v. BHA	M	6.37	6.07
164	68	129	69	Sean Longstaff	NEW v. WHU	M	6.36	6.06
165	69	168	82	Theo Walcott	SOU at EVE	M	6.27	4.94
166	70	105	60	Allan	EVE v. SOU	M	6.24	6.57
167	50	190	61	Victor Lindelof	MUN v. LEE	D	6.21	3.73
168	71	106	61	Isaac Hayden	NEW v. WHU	M	6.20	6.57
169	72	130	70	Granit Xhaka	ARS at BRE	M	6.18	6.03
170	10	172	5	Daniel Bachmann	WAT v. AVL	G	6.16	4.83
171	73	126	67	James McArthur	CRY at CHE	M	6.13	6.07
172	11	197	11	David de Gea	MUN v. LEE	G	6.09	3.50
173	51	162	40	Matt Doherty	TOT v. MCI	D	6.04	5.17
174	74	104	59	Frank Onyeka	BRE v. ARS	M	6.03	6.64
175	52	174	48	Craig Cathcart	WAT v. AVL	D	6.02	4.76
176	12	150	4	Tim Krul	NOR v. LIV	G	5.98	5.57
177	75	138	75	Kenny McLean	NOR v. LIV	M	5.90	5.97
178	13	208	15	Kasper Schmeichel	LEI v. WOL	G	5.85	2.76
179	53	179	53	Ki-Jana Hoever	WOL at LEI	D	5.82	4.37
180	76	141	76	Vitaly Janelt	BRE v. ARS	M	5.77	5.88
181	54	177	51	Danny Rose	WAT v. AVL	D	5.75	4.53
182	55	176	50	Kyle Walker-Peters	SOU at EVE	D	5.74	4.65
183	77	121	66	Marvelous Nakamba	AVL at WAT	M	5.71	6.23
184	56	193	64	Rico Henry	BRE v. ARS	D	5.62	3.67
185	57	164	42	Liam Cooper	LEE at MUN	D	5.62	5.10
186	14	214	19	Ederson	MCI at TOT	G	5.62	2.40
187	15	195	9	Nick Pope	BRN v. BHA	G	5.59	3.59
188	58	184	57	Kristoffer Ajer	BRE v. ARS	D	5.54	4.18
189	78	142	77	Christian Norgaard	BRE v. ARS	M	5.43	5.86
190	79	120	65	Oghenekaro Etebo	WAT v. AVL	M	5.42	6.24
191	80	154	80	Oliver Skipp	TOT v. MCI	M	5.22	5.47
192	59	185	58	William Troost-Ekong	WAT v. AVL	D	5.18	4.16
193	60	181	55	Ethan Pinnock	BRE v. ARS	D	5.12	4.34
194	81	133	72	Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg	TOT v. MCI	M	5.09	6.00
195	82	170	83	Jairo Riedewald	CRY at CHE	M	5.02	4.94
196	16	194	8	Jose Sa	WOL at LEI	G	5.02	3.60
197	83	161	81	Jack Cork	BRN v. BHA	M	5.00	5.18
198	61	188	60	Ciaran Clark	NEW v. WHU	D	4.95	3.86
199	62	186	59	Robin Koch	LEE at MUN	D	4.80	4.13
200	17	212	18	Lukasz Fabianski	WHU at NEW	G	4.72	2.54
201	63	192	63	Max Kilman	WOL at LEI	D	4.50	3.68
202	18	196	10	Hugo Lloris	TOT v. MCI	G	4.50	3.51
203	19	201	13	Freddie Woodman	NEW v. WHU	G	4.32	3.26
204	64	191	62	Luke Ayling	LEE at MUN	D	4.20	3.70
205	65	205	69	Emil Krafth	NEW v. WHU	D	4.13	3.14
206	66	200	66	Federico Fernandez	NEW v. WHU	D	4.08	3.35
207	67	202	67	Sergio Reguilon	TOT v. MCI	D	4.03	3.25
208	20	210	17	Alex McCarthy	SOU at EVE	G	3.97	2.65
209	68	198	65	Pontus Jansson	BRE v. ARS	D	3.95	3.48
210	84	187	84	Cheikhou Kouyate	CRY at CHE	M	3.78	3.98
211	69	211	72	Conor Coady	WOL at LEI	D	3.58	2.58
212	70	206	70	Japhet Tanganga	TOT v. MCI	D	3.51	3.10
213	71	204	68	Grant Hanley	NOR v. LIV	D	3.37	3.15
214	72	215	74	Joel Ward	CRY at CHE	D	2.81	2.35
215	73	213	73	Marc Guehi	CRY at CHE	D	2.74	2.53
216	74	218	76	Eric Dier	TOT v. MCI	D	2.73	2.25
217	75	219	77	Max Aarons	NOR v. LIV	D	2.59	2.14
218	76	220	78	Tyrick Mitchell	CRY at CHE	D	2.32	1.40
219	77	217	75	Ben Gibson	NOR v. LIV	D	2.29	2.29
220	78	207	71	Dimitris Giannoulis	NOR v. LIV	D	2.10	2.84