Who to Pick in FPL Draft 26/27 – Top 150 Players Ranked

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Who to Pick in FPL Draft 26/27 – Top 150 Players Ranked

As you might have noticed, based on the text above, our annual FPL Draft Rankings are back! And – if we say so ourselves – they’re better, sharper, and more unapologetically opinionated than ever.

We’ve ranked the top 150 players you’ll need to win your FPL draft league this season. This is a proper draft board – built using data, logic, and a healthy, general disregard for groupthink.

Whether you’re in a six-team league, or pushing the limits with ten, our list is tailored to give you the edge over your friends/competitors/mortal enemies – one pick at a time.

Let’s get into it.

Hang on, What is FPL Draft?

If you are asking yourself this question, check out our FPL Draft Guide.

What Are FPL Draft Rankings?

It may seem like a silly question, but FPL draft rankings are based on a common tool used in American fantasy sports. Despite some people’s views, the Americans do do it better sometimes.

Much like the seasoned pros in American sports, we have designed our own draft rankings because we don’t think FPL Towers are right with their own.

How Many Players Get Drafted in FPL?

Our full drafting tool has 150 players.

For some context, a six team draft league will draft 90 players, an eight team league will draft 120 players and a ten team league will draft 150 players. That is:

Position	Six Team League	Eight Team League	Ten Team League
GK	12	16	20
DEF	30	40	50
MID	30	40	50
FWD	18	24	30
Total	90	120	150

Our Draft rankings are perfect for a ten team league, because they include 150 players.

If you are playing with a six or eight team league you can ever so slightly de-prioritise forwards because there will be more of them available to you – don’t go mad though, the good ones are still incredibly rare.

Why a Ten Team League?

This is the maximum number of teams where a draft league is viable. And even then, it can be a stretch. There are just not 30 forwards that play enough minutes in the game, let alone more than that.

Six teams is probably the minimum in which a draft league is viable. Because there are so many good choices out there it becomes a bit too easy and dull.

Trust me. Joe and I once did a head-to-head draft, just me and him. It was soooooo boring.

I actually think the sweet spot is an eight team league. There are just enough forwards so that everyone can have two starters and a third forward that probably gets minutes.

How Did You Pick These 150 Players for FPL Draft Rankings?

I (James) picked the players for these FPL draft rankings based on a number of factors, but basically it is the data with a bit of points projections based on past performance (both expected and real) plus my judgement. Your judgement may be different.

The factors considered were:

How many points will they score?

It’s a bit obvious, but yeah.

And, okay, I can’t ‘know’ this. Nobody can. But, I can take a good guess based on previous years performance, underlying stats and potential.

Are they nailed? Are they likely to stay fit?

These are two key considerations, particularly when looking at your higher picks. Your picks can’t score points if they don’t play. But, I am open to taking a punt on riskier guys, just not with my top picks.

What position do they play?

Playing forwards are rare. Good playing forwards are like gold dust. So, you pay a premium for a forward.

I used to think having a premium keeper was valuable but they are have been far and away the worst picks since the introduction of DefCons.

Do they have good fixtures?

Unlike in the main game, fixtures matter a lot less in the draft. Particularly because you aren’t going to drop a good asset for a bad fixture.

The Draft Rankings for FPL 26/27

Okay, enough waffle, let’s get into the rankings.

You can get my projections, and my full rankings, AND our fancy new tool for FPL Draft 26/27 – in all their glory – for the low, lost cost of only £5 – right here:

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All 150 ranked, plus the live draft board. Updated through the transfer window.

Here’s my reasoning for the top 50 or so picks.

The Top Ten

1	Haaland	6	Gabriel
2	B. Fernandes	7	Saka
3	Isak	8	Virgil
4	Watkins	9	Joao Pedro
5	Palmer	10	Tarkowski

It’s hopefully completely obvious to you that Haaland is our number one pick because forwards are rare and he is absolutely nailed and just incredible.

For similar reasons, Isak, Watkins and Joao Pedro join in the fun at the top ten. Isak will be a mins risk at some point but Ekitike is out for half the season and he is very capable of a 20 goal season. Watkins is less prolific but absolutely nailed. And, JP is probably nailed in a team without European football just off his breakout season.

Fernandes comes in second, but if I had second pick I would be tempted to swerve him for one of these forwards. Of course, he is absolutely nailed though and a fitness monster which I love.

Palmer and Saka are probably obvious pickups too because of their high ceilings – I know they haven’t been amazing the last two years but we know what they are capable of.

I guess the addition of Gabriel isn’t too shocking this year but he is joined by the other high-floor centre-back in Virgil.

I’ve already set out my stall on Tarkowski. He is one of the most reliable assets in FPL and almost certainly will be a top 3 DefCon merchant this year. I know it feels crazy to see him here but he is worth it.

Picks 11-20

I’m not going to explain absolutely everyone from here on out, it’s too many names and boring, but I will continue to give you my general view.

11	Mbeumo	16	Truffert
12	Gibbs-White	17	Rice
13	Thiago	18	Cunha
14	Calvert-Lewin	19	Szoboszlai
15	Solanke	20	Wirtz

Another three forwards in Thiago, Calvert-Lewin and Solanke make it seven forwards in the top FPL draft picks for 26/27. Hopefully, you can already see that there aren’t many left which is what is driving them all up the rankings. Thiago tops them by being nailed and good. Calvert-Lewin is just nailed and Solanke is good but has fitness issues – that’s the logic.

There are a plethora of good midfield options in here too – guys with high ceiling and are nailed – Mbeumo, Gibbs-White, Rice, Szoboszlai. Players like these are hard to come by so take ‘em.

Cunha and Wirtz do have minutes risk in my opinion, just because others can play in their position.

Picks 21-30

21	Munoz	26	Milenkovic
22	Semenyo	27	Mateta
23	Rogers	28	Sarr
24	McBurnie	29	Senesi
25	Bruno G.	30	Enzo

Munoz becomes the second wing-back to get on this list and like the former (Truffert) he also gets DefCons from time to time.

Semenyo could make a mockery of this draft rank but we just don’t know his nailedness. And, Rogers under a new manager may no longer defy his underlyings.

Two more forwards takes us up to 9 forwards in the top 30 picks. McBurnie seems hilariously overvalued by my projections until you look and see that none of the rest of the guys after him are nailed. That includes Mateta who will compete with Strand Larsen in a season with European football too.

He is joined by fellow Palace player Sarr who is always great on underlyings.

There are a couple of quite dull picks here now – Enzo is kind of fine at a lot of things so if he stays he should be good. I am assuming Bruno G. gets good minutes at his new club with Rice already looking like he is injured.

Picks 31-50

31	O. Dango	41	Maddison
32	Lacroix	42	Stach
33	Le Fee	43	Gvardiol
34	Mitchell	44	N. Williams
35	van Hecke	45	Ballard
36	Collins	46	Anderson
37	Thiaw	47	Hirst
38	Schade	48	Raya
39	Pedro Porro	49	Manzambi
40	Igor Jesus	50	Guehi

We have two more forwards to take us up to eleven forwards in the top 50 – we are running out of options here and for the first time we take a bit of a risk and assume Igor Jesus is nailed over Wood. Hirst is probably the first choice for Coventry but they played three forwards quite a lot last season.

The first goalkeeper emerges with David Raya at 46. Even though he is so much better than his counterparts, he won’t outscore them by much hence the poor ranking.

Then we have 10 defenders – mostly reasonably good DefCon guys on solid defences. But. another couple of fun wing-backs like Porro and Williams.

And finally a bunch of fun midfield picks like Dango and Maddison or some more boring ones like Stach or Anderson.

Picks 51 and 52 – the City Duo

Foden

Cherki

I think this is the right time to take a risk and have some fun. Right now, I think probably both these guys get less than 2000 mins. BUT on the off chance that either one of them is nailed, then they will SMASH this draft ranking.

I can see a world in which you decide to take them a bit earlier. After all, Maddison is above them and he has to be a minutes risk too right? But, I also can see a world in which I swerve them altogether just to avoid the headache.