Fantasy Premier League Rankings: January Update

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Updated on January 6, 2014 9:57PM EST

Before the transfer window action really picks up, we thought it was a good time to update our season rankings. Just like last time, I and three other RotoWire soccer contributors ranked our top-20 forwards, midfielders and defensemen, and our top-10 goalkeepers. We ranked the players as to where we thought they would finish the season, starting today.

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. The rankings reflect how we think each position will finish by the end of the season.

Luis Suarez takes our top striker spot, the only unanimous pick at any position. With 20 goals and five assists in only 16 appearances, it's tough to argue with that.

Rankings last updated January 6, 2014

	FORWARDS	MIDFIELDERS	DEFENDERS	GOALKEEPERS
1	Luis Suarez	Yaya Toure	Seamus Coleman	Wojciech Szczesny
2	Sergio Aguero	Aaron Ramsey	Leighton Baines	Tim Howard
3	Wayne Rooney	Mesut Ozil	Per Mertesacker	Petr Cech
4	Romelu Lukaku	Eden Hazard	Pablo Zabaleta	Simon Mignolet
5	Olivier Giroud	Steven Gerrard	Kyle Walker	Hugo Lloris
6	Loic Remy	Adam Lallana	Patrice Evra	Tim Krul
7	Alvaro Negredo	David Silva	Branislav Ivanovic	David de Gea
8	Robin van Persie	Samir Nasri	Laurent Koscielny	Jussi Jaaskelainen
9	Rickie Lambert	Yohan Cabaye	Phil Jagielka	Brad Guzan
10	Daniel Sturridge	Oscar	John Terry	Joe Hart
11	Christian Benteke	Kevin Mirallas	Vincent Kompany
12	Jay Rodriguez	Ross Barkley	Jan Vertonghen
13	Roberto Soldado	Jesus Navas	Bacary Sagna
14	Yoan Gouffran	Frank Lampard	Martin Skrtel
15	E. Adebayor	Philippe Coutinho	Dejan Lovren
16	Danny Welbeck	Santi Cazorla	Chico
17	Wilfried Bony	Jordan Henderson	Aleksandar Kolarov
18	Gary Hooper	Jonjo Shelvey	Steven Caulker
19	Gabriel Agbonlahor	Moussa Sissoko	Ben Davies
20	Edin Dzeko	Kevin Nolan	Gary Cahill

FORWARDS

#	OVERALL	PTS	LAIRD	MOSINSKI	PITNER	RADUNE
1	Luis Suarez	80	Luis Suarez	Luis Suarez	Luis Suarez	Luis Suarez
2	Sergio Aguero	74	Sergio Aguero	Romelu Lukaku	Wayne Rooney	Sergio Aguero
3	Wayne Rooney	71	Wayne Rooney	Sergio Aguero	Sergio Aguero	Romelu Lukaku
4	Romelu Lukaku	70	Romelu Lukaku	Wayne Rooney	Olivier Giroud	Wayne Rooney
5	Olivier Giroud	72	Olivier Giroud	Olivier Giroud	Romelu Lukaku	Lois Remy
6	Loic Remy	59	Loic Remy	Robin van Persie	Alvaro Negredo	Alvaro Negredo
7	Alvaro Negredo	56	Alvaro Negredo	Loic Remy	Loic Remy	Daniel Sturridge
8	Robin van Persie	52	Robin van Persie	Rickie Lambert	Rickie Lambert	Olivier Giroud
9	Rickie Lambert	47	Christian Benteke	Alvaro Negredo	Robin van Persie	Robin van Persie
10	Daniel Sturridge	44	Daniel Sturridge	E. Adebayor	Daniel Sturridge	Rickie Lambert
11	Christian Benteke	31	Rickie Lambert	Jay Rodriguez	Jay Rodriguez	Danny Welbeck
12	Jay Rodriguez	28	Yoan Gouffran	Christian Benteke	Roberto Soldado	Roberto Soldado
13	Roberto Soldado	27	Jay Rodriguez	Daniel Sturridge	Yoan Gouffran	Dimitar Berbatov
14	Yoan Gouffran	18	Wilfried Bony	Edin Dzeko	Gabriel Agbonlahor	Wilfried Bony
15	E. Adebayor	17	E. Adebayor	Gary Hooper	Christian Benteke	Gabriel Agbonlahor
16	Danny Welbeck	17	Roberto Soldado	Saido Berahino	Gary Hooper	Fernando Torres
17	Wilfried Bony	16	Gary Hooper	Roberto Soldado	Danny Welbeck	Christian Benteke
18	Gary Hooper	15	Danny Welbeck	Fernando Torres	Peter Crouch	Edin Dzeko
19	Gabriel Agbonlahor	13	Fernando Torres	Wilfried Bony	Dimitar Berbatov	Maourane Chamakh
20	Edin Dzeko	11	Edin Dzeko	Yoan Gouffran	Fraizer Campbell	Peter Crouch

MIDFIELDERS

#	OVERALL	PTS	LAIRD	MOSINSKI	PITNER	RADUNE
1	Yaya Toure	76	Aaron Ramsey	Aaron Ramsey	Eden Hazard	Yaya Toure
2	Aaron Ramsey	75	Yaya Toure	Mesut Ozil	Yaya Toure	Mesut Ozil
3	Mesut Ozil	74	Mesut Ozil	Yaya Toure	Mesut Ozil	Aaron Ramsey
4	Eden Hazard	68	Eden Hazard	Eden Hazard	Aaron Ramsey	Samir Nasri
5	Steven Gerrard	63	David Silva	Steven Gerrard	Steven Gerrard	Steven Gerrard
6	Adam Lallana	54	Steven Gerrard	Oscar	Oscar	Adam Lallana
7	David Silva	51	Oscar	David Silva	Adam Lallana	Eden Hazard
8	Samir Nasri	48	Yohan Cabaye	Adam Lallana	David Silva	Moussa Sissoko
9	Yohan Cabaye	47	Adam Lallana	Yohan Cabaye	Yohan Cabaye	Kevin Mirallas
10	Oscar	45	Jesus Navas	Ross Barkley	Samir Nasri	Jordan Henderson
11	Kevin Mirallas	34	Philippe Coutinho	Philippe Coutinho	Jesus Navas	Yohan Cabaye
12	Ross Barkley	33	Samir Nasri	Kevin Mirallas	Frank Lampard	Ross Barkley
13	Jesus Navas	22	Frank Lampard	Samir Nasri	Santi Cazorla	David Silva
14	Frank Lampard	22	Ross Barkley	Kevin Nolan	Kevin Mirallas	Ahmed Elmohamady
15	Philippe Coutinho	20	Kevin Mirallas	Paulinho	Ross Barkley	Fernandinho
16	Santi Cazorla	16	Kevin Nolan	Frank Lampard	Jonjo Shelvey	Santi Cazorla
17	Jordan Henderson	15	Jordan Henderson	Jordan Mutch	Peter Whittingham	Jonjo Shelvey
18	Jonjo Shelvey	14	Santi Cazorla	Jonjo Shelvey	Fernandinho	Morgan Amalfitano
19	Moussa Sissoko	13	Jonjo Shelvey	Leroy Fer	Christian Eriksen	Tom Cleverley
20	Kevin Nolan	12	Raheem Sterling	Jesus Navas	Hatem Ben Arfa	Oscar

DEFENSEMEN

#	OVERALL	PTS	LAIRD	MOSINSKI	PITNER	RADUNE
1	Seamus Coleman	77	Seamus Coleman	Leighton Baines	Seamus Coleman	Seamus Coleman
2	Leighton Baines	72	Per Mertesacker	Per Mertesacker	John Terry	Patrice Evra
3	Per Mertesacker	61	Pablo Zabaleta	Branislav Ivanovic	Per Mertesacker	Leighton Baines
4	Pablo Zabaleta	60	Leighton Baines	Seamus Coleman	Leighton Baines	Kyle Walker
5	Kyle Walker	59	John Terry	Kyle Walker	Pablo Zabaleta	Branislav Ivanovic
6	Patrice Evra	56	Vincent Kompany	Pablo Zabaleta	Patrice Evra	Martin Skrtel
7	Branislav Ivanovic	52	Branislav Ivanovic	Vincent Kompany	Phil Jagielka	Laurent Koscielny
8	Laurent Koscielny	49	Kyle Walker	Jan Vertonghen	Kyle Walker	Steven Caulker
9	Phil Jagielka	41	Patrice Evra	Laurent Koscielny	Laurent Koscielny	Bacary Sagna
10	John Terry	37	Laurent Koscielny	Phil Jagielka	Jan Vertonghen	Pablo Zabaleta
11	Vincent Kompany	36	Phil Jagielka	Patrice Evra	Bacary Sagna	Ben Davies
12	Jan Vertonghen	32	Dejan Lovren	Michael Dawson	Sylvain Distin	Chico
13	Bacary Sagna	28	Jan Vertonghen	Chico	Dejan Lovren	Glen Johnson
14	Martin Sktrel	25	Aleksander Kolarov	Aleksander Kolarov	Garry Cahill	Vincent Kompany
15	Dejan Lovren	20	Bacary Sagna	Gary Cahill	Martin Skrtel	Phil Jagielka
16	Chico	27	Mathieu Debuchy	Daniel Agger	Jose Fonte	Per Mertesacker
17	Aleksander Kolarov	14	Martin Skrtel	Mathieu Debuchy	Branislav Ivanovic	Liam Ridgewell
18	Steven Caulker	13	Gareth McAuley	Dejan Lovren	Luke Shaw	Phil Jones
19	Ben Davies	10	Gary Cahill	John Terry	Ryan Shawcross	Gary Cahill
20	Gary Cahill	10	Matija Nastasic	Luke Shaw	Gareth McAuley	Martin Olsson

GOALKEEPERS

#	OVERALL	PTS	LAIRD	MOSINSKI	PITNER	RADUNE
1	Wojciech Szczesny	39	Wojciech Szczesny	Wojciech Szczesny	Wojciech Szczesny	Tim Howard
2	Tim Howard	37	Tim Howard	Tim Howard	Tim Howard	Wojciech Szczesny
3	Petr Cech	29	Petr Cech	Petr Cech	Simon Mignolet	Simon Mignolet
4	Simon Mignolet	27	Simon Mignolet	Hugo Lloris	J. Jaaskelainen	Petr Cech
5	Hugo Lloris	19	Tim Krul	David de Gea	Petr Cech	David de Gea
6	Tim Krul	16	Joe Hart	Simon Mignolet	Tim Krul	Hugo Lloris
7	David de Gea	15	Hugo Lloris	J. Jaaskelainen	Hugo Lloris	Joe Hart
8	J. Jaaskelainen	11	David de Gea	J. Jaaskelainen	Hugo Lloris	Joe Hart
9	Brad Guzan	10	Brad Guzan	Asmir Begovic	John Ruddy	John Ruddy
10	Joe Hart	9	J. Jaaskelainen	Artur Boruc	Joe Hart	Tim Krul