Fantasy Premier League Player Rankings: Gameweek 18

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Published on December 23, 2024

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)

7:30 am: Manchester City vs. Everton
10:00 am: AFC Bournemouth vs. Crystal Palace
10:00 am: Chelsea vs. Fulham
10:00 am: Newcastle United vs. Aston Villa
10:00 am: Nottingham Forest vs. Tottenham Hotspur
10:00 am: Southampton vs. West Ham United
12:30 pm: Wolverhampton vs. Manchester United
3:00 pm: Liverpool vs. Leicester City
2:30 pm: Brighton & Hove Albion vs. Brentford
3:15 pm: Arsenal vs. Ipswich Town

For detailed stats and odds, check out the
Fantasy Premier League: Gameweek 18 Cheat Sheet

PLAYER RANKINGS

Overall Rank	FW Rank	MID Rank	DEF Rank	GK Rank	Player	Team	Matchup	Pos	Price	TSB%	Pts
1		1			Mohamed Salah	LIV	LIV v. LEI	M	13.5	65.5	10.82
2		2			Diogo Jota	LIV	LIV v. LEI	M	7.2	3.2	9.16
3		3			Cole Palmer	CHE	CHE v. FUL	M	11.2	65.2	9.07
4	1				Erling Haaland	MCI	MCI v. EVE	F	14.8	34.5	8.68
5		4			Martin Odegaard	ARS	ARS v. IPS	M	8.3	6.2	8.36
6		5			Leandro Trossard	ARS	ARS v. IPS	M	6.8	1.7	8.35
7		6			Gabriel Martinelli	ARS	ARS v. IPS	M	6.7	2.9	8.26
8			1		Trent Alexander-Arnold	LIV	LIV v. LEI	D	7.0	22.6	7.94
9	2				Cody Gakpo	LIV	LIV v. LEI	F	7.1	3.2	7.70
10		7			Christopher Nkunku	CHE	CHE v. FUL	M	5.8	2.3	7.66
11		8			Amad Diallo	MUN	MUN at WOL	M	5.3	16.3	7.60
12			2		Andrew Robertson	LIV	LIV v. LEI	D	5.9	5.1	7.52
13	3				Kai Havertz	ARS	ARS v. IPS	F	7.9	9.9	7.51
14		9			Bruno Fernandes	MUN	MUN at WOL	M	8.4	14.7	7.37
15		10			Kevin De Bruyne	MCI	MCI v. EVE	M	9.5	4.7	7.37
16		11			Phil Foden	MCI	MCI v. EVE	M	9.1	4.3	7.23
17	4				Joao Pedro	BHA	BHA v. BRE	F	5.9	20.8	7.15
18		12			Jarrod Bowen	WHU	WHU at SOU	M	7.5	7.1	7.13
19		13			Son Heung-Min	TOT	TOT at NFO	M	9.8	5.7	6.89
20	5				Alexander Isak	NEW	NEW v. AVL	F	8.9	36.6	6.86
21	6				Ollie Watkins	AVL	AVL at NEW	F	8.9	15.9	6.80
22	7				Chris Wood	NFO	NFO v. TOT	F	6.6	24.1	6.78
23			3		Rico Lewis	MCI	MCI v. EVE	D	4.6	7.3	6.75
24		14			Justin Kluivert	BOU	BOU v. CRY	M	5.5	4.5	6.74
25		15			Noni Madueke	CHE	CHE v. FUL	M	6.3	6.8	6.74
26	8				Enes Unal	BOU	BOU v. CRY	F	5.4	0.2	6.65
27	9				Adam Armstrong	SOU	SOU v. WHU	F	5.1	1.0	6.63
28		16			Jeremy Doku	MCI	MCI v. EVE	M	6.2	1.6	6.61
29		17			Brennan Johnson	TOT	TOT at NFO	M	6.6	6.6	6.55
30		18			Anthony Gordon	NEW	NEW v. AVL	M	7.2	9.3	6.45
31		19			Eberechi Eze	CRY	CRY at BOU	M	6.6	7.1	6.43
32		20			Antoine Semenyo	BOU	BOU v. CRY	M	5.6	5.9	6.37
33		21			Kaoru Mitoma	BHA	BHA v. BRE	M	6.5	7.9	6.37
34		22			Bryan Mbeumo	BRE	BRE at BHA	M	7.6	28.6	6.37
35			4		Jurrien Timber	ARS	ARS v. IPS	D	5.7	7.7	6.35
36			5		Riccardo Calafiori	ARS	ARS v. IPS	D	5.8	1.3	6.31
37	10				Raul Jimenez	FUL	FUL at CHE	F	5.6	6.3	6.30
38			6		Diogo Dalot	MUN	MUN at WOL	D	5.2	9.7	6.29
39		23			Morgan Rogers	AVL	AVL at NEW	M	5.3	20.1	6.28
40			7		Josko Gvardiol	MCI	MCI v. EVE	D	6.1	22.8	6.24
41		24			Jacob Murphy	NEW	NEW v. AVL	M	4.9	1.5	6.24
42				1	David Raya	ARS	ARS v. IPS	G	5.6	31.3	6.22
43			8		Noussair Mazraoui	MUN	MUN at WOL	D	4.6	15.6	6.20
44		25			Curtis Jones	LIV	LIV v. LEI	M	5.3	0.5	6.17
45	11				Dominic Solanke	TOT	TOT at NFO	F	7.5	9.0	6.17
46		26			Mohammed Kudus	WHU	WHU at SOU	M	6.2	2.7	6.14
47		27			Alex Iwobi	FUL	FUL at CHE	M	5.8	6.0	6.12
48		28			Morgan Gibbs-White	NFO	NFO v. TOT	M	6.3	1.4	6.05
49			9		Gabriel	ARS	ARS v. IPS	D	6.3	25.9	6.04
50		29			Callum Hudson-Odoi	NFO	NFO v. TOT	M	5.3	1.7	6.02
51	12				Yoane Wissa	BRE	BRE at BHA	F	6.3	10.6	5.97
52	13				Rasmus Hojlund	MUN	MUN at WOL	F	6.9	1.8	5.96
53			10		Pervis Estupinan	BHA	BHA v. BRE	D	5.1	2.1	5.96
54	14				Jean-Philippe Mateta	CRY	CRY at BOU	F	7.2	2.4	5.95
55		30			Anthony Elanga	NFO	NFO v. TOT	M	5.1	0.7	5.93
56			11		Virgil van Dijk	LIV	LIV v. LEI	D	6.5	24.7	5.91
57			12		William Saliba	ARS	ARS v. IPS	D	6.3	30.4	5.87
58	15				Evanilson	BOU	BOU v. CRY	F	6.1	3.8	5.83
59		31			Joao Felix	CHE	CHE v. FUL	M	6.0	0.5	5.82
60		32			Yankuba Minteh	BHA	BHA v. BRE	M	5.1	0.4	5.80
61	16				Matheus Cunha	WOL	WOL v. MUN	F	7.1	22.5	5.79
62		33			Andreas Pereira	FUL	FUL at CHE	M	5.0	1.0	5.79
63			13		Aaron Wan-Bissaka	WHU	WHU at SOU	D	4.6	6.5	5.76
64		34			Ismaila Sarr	CRY	CRY at BOU	M	5.7	1.3	5.76
65		35			Goncalo Guedes	WOL	WOL v. MUN	M	5.3	0.1	5.75
66		36			Youri Tielemans	AVL	AVL at NEW	M	5.5	1.1	5.74
67		37			Carlos Soler	WHU	WHU at SOU	M	5.0	0.0	5.74
68		38			Savinho	MCI	MCI v. EVE	M	6.4	0.8	5.71
69		39			Adama Traore	FUL	FUL at CHE	M	4.7	1.8	5.71
70	17				Evan Ferguson	BHA	BHA v. BRE	F	5.5	0.3	5.71
71		40			Crysencio Summerville	WHU	WHU at SOU	M	5.6	0.4	5.69
72			14		Kyle Walker	MCI	MCI v. EVE	D	5.2	3.4	5.67
73		41			Kevin Schade	BRE	BRE at BHA	M	5.1	0.8	5.66
74		42			Alexis Mac Allister	LIV	LIV v. LEI	M	6.2	1.3	5.64
75			15		Milos Kerkez	BOU	BOU v. CRY	D	4.7	6.0	5.58
76			16		Malo Gusto	CHE	CHE v. FUL	D	4.9	2.2	5.58
77		43			Ilkay Gundogan	MCI	MCI v. EVE	M	6.5	0.4	5.55
78			17		Tariq Lamptey	BHA	BHA v. BRE	D	4.4	0.5	5.51
79			18		Joe Gomez	LIV	LIV v. LEI	D	4.9	2.2	5.48
80			19		Manuel Akanji	MCI	MCI v. EVE	D	5.3	2.7	5.47
81		44			John McGinn	AVL	AVL at NEW	M	5.2	0.8	5.44
82	18				Jorgen Strand Larsen	WOL	WOL v. MUN	F	5.6	3.9	5.44
83		45			Declan Rice	ARS	ARS v. IPS	M	6.2	2.6	5.38
84			20		Emerson	WHU	WHU at SOU	D	4.5	0.0	5.36
85		46			Mikel Merino	ARS	ARS v. IPS	M	6.0	0.1	5.33
86	19				Jamie Vardy	LEI	LEI at LIV	F	5.6	9.3	5.31
87		47			Mateus Fernandes	SOU	SOU v. WHU	M	5.0	0.0	5.29
88			21		Harry Maguire	MUN	MUN at WOL	D	4.9	0.5	5.26
89	20				Cameron Archer	SOU	SOU v. WHU	F	5.0	2.1	5.25
90		48			Mikkel Damsgaard	BRE	BRE at BHA	M	5.0	1.2	5.23
91		49			Ryan Gravenberch	LIV	LIV v. LEI	M	5.0	0.8	5.19
92				2	Stefan Ortega	MCI	MCI v. EVE	G	5.2	0.6	5.19
93		50			Facundo Buonanotte	LEI	LEI at LIV	M	4.9	0.9	5.17
94			22		Matthijs De Ligt	MUN	MUN at WOL	D	5.0	4.3	5.16
95		51			Rodrigo Gomes	WOL	WOL v. MUN	M	5.2	0.1	5.16
96			23		Ryan Manning	SOU	SOU v. WHU	D	4.3	0.1	5.15
97			24		Lucas Digne	AVL	AVL at NEW	D	4.7	8.4	5.14
98			25		Lewis Hall	NEW	NEW v. AVL	D	4.6	12.1	5.10
99			26		Daniel Munoz	CRY	CRY at BOU	D	4.7	2.6	5.08
100				3	Kepa Arrizabalaga	BOU	BOU v. CRY	G	4.5	1.2	5.06
101		52			Kasey McAteer	LEI	LEI at LIV	M	4.7	0.1	5.03
102			27		Adam Smith	BOU	BOU v. CRY	D	4.5	0.2	5.01
103		53			Dejan Kulusevski	TOT	TOT at NFO	M	6.3	5.1	5.01
104	21				Liam Delap	IPS	IPS at ARS	F	5.6	3.0	4.98
105		54			Abdoulaye Doucoure	EVE	EVE at MCI	M	5.1	0.2	4.97
106			28		Dean Huijsen	BOU	BOU v. CRY	D	4.3	1.1	4.96
107			29		Marc Cucurella	CHE	CHE v. FUL	D	5.2	6.6	4.96
108			30		Leif Davis	IPS	IPS at ARS	D	4.5	2.3	4.95
109			31		Kyle Walker-Peters	SOU	SOU v. WHU	D	4.4	0.3	4.94
110		55			Elliot Anderson	NFO	NFO v. TOT	M	5.0	0.2	4.91
111			32		Valentino Livramento	NEW	NEW v. AVL	D	4.5	2.2	4.90
112		56			Omari Hutchinson	IPS	IPS at ARS	M	5.2	0.3	4.90
113			33		Nelson Semedo	WOL	WOL v. MUN	D	4.5	0.3	4.90
114			34		Matty Cash	AVL	AVL at NEW	D	4.4	1.4	4.90
115		57			Bruno Guimaraes	NEW	NEW v. AVL	M	6.1	1.8	4.85
116	22				Dominic Calvert-Lewin	EVE	EVE at MCI	F	5.5	1.6	4.83
117		58			Enzo Fernandez	CHE	CHE v. FUL	M	5.1	10.2	4.83
118			35		Fabian Schar	NEW	NEW v. AVL	D	5.4	2.3	4.79
119		59			Tomas Soucek	WHU	WHU at SOU	M	4.9	2.1	4.78
120			36		Ola Aina	NFO	NFO v. TOT	D	5.0	16.3	4.76
121		60			Joelinton	NEW	NEW v. AVL	M	6.0	1.2	4.76
122			37		Destiny Udogie	TOT	TOT at NFO	D	4.9	2.6	4.74
123			38		Lisandro Martinez	MUN	MUN at WOL	D	4.4	3.8	4.71
124		61			Jack Harrison	EVE	EVE at MCI	M	5.2	0.1	4.67
125		62			Wes Burns	IPS	IPS at ARS	M	4.8	0.0	4.65
126		63			Kobbie Mainoo	MUN	MUN at WOL	M	5.2	2.0	4.65
127			39		Nikola Milenkovic	NFO	NFO v. TOT	D	4.6	3.3	4.64
128			40		Alex Moreno	NFO	NFO v. TOT	D	4.4	0.5	4.63
129			41		Djed Spence	TOT	TOT at NFO	D	4.4	0.1	4.62
130			42		Illia Zabarnyi	BOU	BOU v. CRY	D	4.4	0.5	4.60
131				4	Alisson	LIV	LIV v. LEI	G	5.4	6.0	4.59
132			43		Dan Burn	NEW	NEW v. AVL	D	4.4	7.0	4.58
133		64			Tom Cairney	FUL	FUL at CHE	M	4.8	0.0	4.57
134		65			Samuel Szmodics	IPS	IPS at ARS	M	5.8	0.3	4.57
135			44		Konstantinos Mavropanos	WHU	WHU at SOU	D	4.4	0.1	4.56
136		66			Pape Sarr	TOT	TOT at NFO	M	4.8	0.2	4.56
137			45		Tyrick Mitchell	CRY	CRY at BOU	D	4.8	1.5	4.56
138			46		Lewis Dunk	BHA	BHA v. BRE	D	4.4	3.9	4.54
139			47		Taylor Harwood-Bellis	SOU	SOU v. WHU	D	4.1	8.4	4.54
140			48		Matt Doherty	WOL	WOL v. MUN	D	4.3	0.2	4.49
141		67			Ryan Christie	BOU	BOU v. CRY	M	4.9	0.1	4.48
142			49		Max Kilman	WHU	WHU at SOU	D	4.5	1.7	4.47
143			50		Jan Paul van Hecke	BHA	BHA v. BRE	D	4.5	1.0	4.46
144			51		Trevoh Chalobah	CRY	CRY at BOU	D	4.4	0.6	4.43
145		68			Bobby Decordova-Reid	LEI	LEI at LIV	M	5.2	0.1	4.42
146		69			Sandro Tonali	NEW	NEW v. AVL	M	5.5	0.4	4.41
147			52		Levi Colwill	CHE	CHE v. FUL	D	4.6	5.2	4.41
148			53		Murillo	NFO	NFO v. TOT	D	4.6	3.2	4.41
149				5	Andre Onana	MUN	MUN at WOL	G	5.2	9.7	4.40
150			54		Timothy Castagne	FUL	FUL at CHE	D	4.2	1.1	4.40
151		70			Lewis Cook	BOU	BOU v. CRY	M	5.0	0.2	4.37
152			55		Mads Roerslev	BRE	BRE at BHA	D	4.3	0.1	4.36
153	23				Iliman Ndiaye	EVE	EVE at MCI	F	5.4	0.6	4.36
154		71			Flynn Downes	SOU	SOU v. WHU	M	4.8	0.0	4.34
155		72			Carlos Baleba	BHA	BHA v. BRE	M	5.0	0.2	4.34
156			56		Maxence Lacroix	CRY	CRY at BOU	D	4.5	0.3	4.33
157			57		Antonee Robinson	FUL	FUL at CHE	D	4.9	21.7	4.32
158		73			Amadou Onana	AVL	AVL at NEW	M	4.9	2.8	4.29
159			58		Nathan Collins	BRE	BRE at BHA	D	4.6	2.5	4.23
160			59		Pau Torres	AVL	AVL at NEW	D	4.4	1.4	4.21
161		74			Manuel Ugarte	MUN	MUN at WOL	M	4.9	0.1	4.21
162			60		Ben Mee	BRE	BRE at BHA	D	4.2	0.4	4.21
163			61		Jan Bednarek	SOU	SOU v. WHU	D	4.0	2.5	4.19
164		75			Moises Caicedo	CHE	CHE v. FUL	M	4.9	1.4	4.18
165		76			Yasin Ayari	BHA	BHA v. BRE	M	5.0	0.0	4.18
166		77			Will Hughes	CRY	CRY at BOU	M	4.9	0.1	4.16
167			62		Tosin Adarabioyo	CHE	CHE v. FUL	D	4.2	0.2	4.16
168			63		Marc Guehi	CRY	CRY at BOU	D	4.5	7.1	4.15
169		78			Edson Alvarez	WHU	WHU at SOU	M	5.0	0.1	4.14
170		79			Keane Lewis-Potter	BRE	BRE at BHA	M	5.0	0.1	4.13
171			64		Toti Gomes	WOL	WOL v. MUN	D	4.3	0.3	4.12
172		80			Joao Gomes	WOL	WOL v. MUN	M	4.9	0.5	4.08
173			65		Ezri Konsa	AVL	AVL at NEW	D	4.4	7.5	4.06
174		81			Jefferson Lerma	CRY	CRY at BOU	M	4.8	0.0	4.04
175		82			Christian Norgaard	BRE	BRE at BHA	M	4.8	0.2	4.03
176		83			Ryan Yates	NFO	NFO v. TOT	M	4.9	0.2	4.03
177				6	Martin Dubravka	NEW	NEW v. AVL	G	4.2	0.9	4.03
178			66		Vitaliy Mykolenko	EVE	EVE at MCI	D	4.3	4.9	4.00
179		84			Vitaly Janelt	BRE	BRE at BHA	M	4.9	0.4	3.99
180			67		Nathan Wood	SOU	SOU v. WHU	D	4.0	1.3	3.90
181			68		Seamus Coleman	EVE	EVE at MCI	D	4.3	0.0	3.89
182				7	Lukasz Fabianski	WHU	WHU at SOU	G	4.2	1.4	3.87
183		85			Yves Bissouma	TOT	TOT at NFO	M	4.9	0.3	3.85
184			69		Santi Bueno	WOL	WOL v. MUN	D	4.3	0.1	3.84
185		86			Lesley Ugochukwu	SOU	SOU v. WHU	M	4.5	0.3	3.81
186		87			Boubacar Kamara	AVL	AVL at NEW	M	5.0	0.0	3.81
187		88			Orel Mangala	EVE	EVE at MCI	M	5.0	0.0	3.79
188			70		James Tarkowski	EVE	EVE at MCI	D	4.8	1.6	3.79
189			71		Radu Dragusin	TOT	TOT at NFO	D	4.2	0.0	3.78
190			72		James Justin	LEI	LEI at LIV	D	4.3	2.2	3.76
191		89			Sasa Lukic	FUL	FUL at CHE	M	4.8	0.0	3.73
192			73		Jarrad Branthwaite	EVE	EVE at MCI	D	4.8	1.0	3.72
193			74		Calvin Bassey	FUL	FUL at CHE	D	4.5	0.4	3.70
194			75		Victor Kristiansen	LEI	LEI at LIV	D	4.5	0.1	3.69
195		90			Andre	WOL	WOL v. MUN	M	5.0	0.0	3.68
196			76		Issa Diop	FUL	FUL at CHE	D	4.4	0.2	3.63
197			77		Ben Johnson	IPS	IPS at ARS	D	3.9	2.3	3.62
198			78		Jacob Greaves	IPS	IPS at ARS	D	3.9	3.6	3.54
199		91			Idrissa Gueye	EVE	EVE at MCI	M	4.8	0.1	3.52
200				8	Jose Sa	WOL	WOL v. MUN	G	4.3	1.5	3.46
201		92			Harry Winks	LEI	LEI at LIV	M	4.5	6.9	3.44
202			79		Wout Faes	LEI	LEI at LIV	D	4.0	9.9	3.42
203		93			Archie Gray	TOT	TOT at NFO	M	4.6	0.2	3.40
204		94			Kalvin Phillips	IPS	IPS at ARS	M	4.8	0.1	3.26
205		95			Jens Cajuste	IPS	IPS at ARS	M	4.5	0.1	3.25
206		96			Boubakary Soumare	LEI	LEI at LIV	M	4.4	0.4	3.23
207			80		Conor Coady	LEI	LEI at LIV	D	4.0	0.4	3.16
208			81		Dara O'Shea	IPS	IPS at ARS	D	4.1	2.0	3.16
209				9	Matz Sels	NFO	NFO v. TOT	G	4.7	8.4	3.12
210				10	Robert Sanchez	CHE	CHE v. FUL	G	4.8	13.5	2.95
211				11	Jordan Pickford	EVE	EVE at MCI	G	4.9	10.2	2.77
212				12	Alex McCarthy	SOU	SOU v. WHU	G	4.3	0.2	2.72
213				13	Bart Verbruggen	BHA	BHA v. BRE	G	4.5	3.1	2.64
214				14	Mark Flekken	BRE	BRE at BHA	G	4.5	11.6	2.55
215				15	Emiliano Martinez	AVL	AVL at NEW	G	5.0	12.0	2.31
216				16	Dean Henderson	CRY	CRY at BOU	G	4.4	10.6	2.22
217				17	Danny Ward	LEI	LEI at LIV	G	4.0	2.0	1.35
218				18	Fraser Forster	TOT	TOT at NFO	G	4.3	0.7	1.05
219				19	Bernd Leno	FUL	FUL at CHE	G	5.0	2.6	1.04
220				20	Arijanet Muric	IPS	IPS at ARS	G	4.4	1.1	0.15