2014-15 Premier League Preseason Rankings: Top Forwards

2014-15 Premier League Preseason Rankings: Top Forwards

This article is part of our Fantasy Premier League Rankings series.

For our 2014-15 Premier League rankings, we polled four of our writers to come up with a composite list for the upcoming year. We broke it down by position, listing our top-20 forwards, midfielders, defenders and 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.

Chelsea's Thibaut Courtois is the top choice in our Goalkeeper Rankings, Everton's Leighton Baines checks in at the top spot for defenders, and Manchester City's Yaya Toure tops our midfielder rankings.

Manchester United's Robin van Persie was our top pick last year, and while he cracks the top-five this time around, Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge checks in at No. 1 this year fresh off a 21-goal season that sees him as the highest-returning goal scorer in the Premier League this season.

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1 Daniel Sturridge76 Robin van Persie Daniel Sturridge Daniel Sturridge Robin van Persie
T2 Sergio Aguero68 Wayne Rooney Romelu Lukaku Wayne Rooney Sergio Aguero
T2 Romelu Lukaku68 Daniel Sturridge Robin van Persie Romelu Lukaku Daniel Sturridge
4 Wayne Rooney67 Romelu Lukaku Sergio Aguero Diego Costa Wayne Rooney
5 Robin van Persie 61 Sergio Aguero Alexis Sanchez Sergio Aguero Diego Costa
T6 Diego Costa60 Wilfried Bony Diego Costa Alexis Sanchez Alexis Sanchez
T6 Alexis Sanchez60 Alexis Sanchez Emmanuel Adebayor Olivier Giroud Romelu Lukaku
8 Wilfried Bony50 Olivier Giroud Wilfried Bony Robin van Persie Alvaro Negredo
9 Edin Dzeko44 Diego Costa Wayne Rooney Wilfried Bony Edin Dzeko
10 Emmanuel Adebayor40 Loic Remy Edin Dzeko Edin Dzeko Emmanuel Adebayor
11 Olivier Giroud37 Edin Dzeko Olivier Giroud Loic Remy Wilfried Bony
12 Loic Remy32 Rickie Lambert Loic Remy Stevan Jovetic Danny Welbeck
13 Rickie Lambert27 Emmanuel Adebayor Rickie Lambert Enner Valencia Christian Benteke
14 Stevan Jovetic23 Stevan Jovetic Jay Rodriguez Emmanuel Adebayor Stevan Jovetic
T15 Christian Benteke17 Christian Benteke Siem de Jong Rickie Lambert Roberto Soldado
T15 Alvaro Negredo17 Nikica Jelavic Enner Valencia Emmanuel Riviere Lukas Podolski
17 Enner Valencia15 Alvaro Negredo Nikica Jelavic Nikica Jelavic Rickie Lambert
T18 Nikica Jelavic13 Jay Rodriguez Christian Benteke Bafetimbi Gomis Jay Rodriguez
T18 Jay Rodriguez13 Emmanuel Riviere Peter Crouch Fraizer Campbell Loic Remy
20 Danny Welbeck9 Enner Valencia Danny Ings Peter Crouch Enner Valencia


**Note: Alexis Sanchez is listed as a midfielder in some Fantasy Premier League games and as a forward in others. For our rankings, we have included him on both lists.**

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Andrew M. Laird
Andrew M. Laird, the 2017 and 2018 FSWA Soccer Writer of the Year, is RotoWire's Head of DFS Content and Senior Soccer Editor. He is a nine-time FSWA award finalist, including twice for Football Writer of the Year.
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