An essential tool in any Fantasy drafter’s kit is a customised draft board.

This is a list of players ranked in order of where you would draft them in. It’s incredibly useful to have your own personal rankings on hand during draft day. When it is your turn to pick a player in the draft, you only have a small amount of time to choose from a huge list of players. Having all players ranked beforehand should save you from getting stage fright and drafting the wrong player under pressure. A good starting point for creating your own draft board is to rank all players by their prices in the standard FPL game.

Ideally this will follow some of the key rules I outlined in my previous article about draft strategy.

This includes streaming defenders, whereby defenders are picked on short term fixtures and can be regularly drafted in and out throughout the season. This is crucial as defenders will dominate the free player list as there are more of them in the game.

Another key strategy is to prioritise strikers as there are limited numbers in this group who can score significant points in the game. Strong midfield options as well as starting goalkeepers should also figure prominently as the number of quality options is also limited

Below is my personal list, as it stands, of the top 120 Premier League players for the season-long FPL Draft game for a standard eight team league. Expect players to move up and down the list as pre-season continues and more transfers are finalised. This should give a broad guide to how to approach draft night and which players to target.

Player Rankings