The Premier League's best players ranked - Part Two, 70-1

Harry Maguire or Harvey Barnes? Thiago Silva or Thiago Alcantara? Alisson or Aymeric Laporte? Trent Alexander-Arnold or Son Heung-Min? How does the best goalkeeper in the league compare to the seventh-best midfielder to the fourth-best defender to the 10th-best attacker?

If you've ever asked yourself any of those questions — and even if you haven't — I tried to come up with a way that answers all of them. After releasing numbers 97-71 in our Premier League rankings earlier in the week, we're back with Part Two: six more tiers and 70 more players.

But before we get to that, it's time for a quick refresher.

I tried to remove my personal opinions from the rankings as much as possible. That's impossible, of course, and the final rating is built around all of the assumptions I made about what should go into the model in the first place and what final results at least passed the eye test.

For a full explanation of how the rankings were made and the various inputs that went into the process, check Part One. However, a couple of key notes: The only players considered were ones who appeared in the top 120 of the Twenty First Group ratings or in the top 75 of Transfermarkt's market values. To adjust for positional value, all goalkeepers were awarded a zero for their Expected Goals (xG) added scores. And if a player was playing outside of the Big Five leagues, he was also awarded a zero for that particular season. That, in particular, penalizes new players like Liverpool's Darwin Nunez (at Benfica) and Manchester United's Lisandro Martinez (at Ajax), but I think it does a good job of accounting for the uncertainty over how performance from smaller leagues translates to the Premier League.

Due to all of that, these ratings are