jayramfootball wrote:EliteKiller wrote:theHotHead wrote:EK, I sourced player ratings from a variety of sources - none of which I don't believe were Whoscored. In any case, if you have a rating system that goes from 1-10, 10 being the highest score, mathematically there are 2 middle scores, 5 and 6, 5 being lower middle and 6 being upper middle. The middle scores are therefore the average, as in, the player was neither good or bad. Scores below 5 are below average, scores above 6 are above average.
Now, if you are taking an Arithmetic Mean average (which clearly none of the ratings I claimed are using and clearly I am not referencing), by totalling the ratings scored and dividing that total by the number of players, that is a totally different value that you are retrieving. Now, assuming you are quoting arithmetic mean averages (which I was not!), if the average in a game is 7, that tells me that by and large most players had higher than average performances. If Ozil scored a 6, but the average works out to be 7, Ozil performed lower than the team's average - but he still put in a performance that was upper average in the scale of 1-10. So even in this scenario, Ozil performed better than Aniym's claimed "He did nothing whatsoever in those games" statement !
You are way over complicating ....
An average is worked out by adding up a set of data and dividing it by the number of units in that set ... the range may be 1 > 10 but that's entirely irrelevant ... if every player gets a 9 and Ozil gets an 8 he is not above average and has not performed better than anyone, he's just been rated above the mid-point but is still below average for that game.
In a football match you have 22 players who are rated, thus to find the average you add those 22 ratings then divide by 22 to get a figure ...
The average in the entire EPL this season, that's every player's game rating added together and divided by the number of games they've all played, is 6.74 ... it's not 5 ... lower than 6.74 is thus a below average rating, higher than 6.74 is an above average rating.
Ozil is rated at 6.71 this season against an EPL average of 6.74 ... does that make sense now?
Erm no. It's whoscored that over complicates the overall rating. They use so many variables and apply them to all positions. It results in Adama Traore being ranked the 3rd best player in the league, well ahead of, for example, David Silva - who had more goals, more assists, more passes (3 times as many!), better completion rate of passes (by miles), more key passes. (by miles)
One of the primary reasons is that Traore got 6 MOTM awards given by Whoscored. But being decent in a game full of shit performances provides man of the match awards.
Use whoscored for inidividual stats, not their ridiculous rating system.
Erm Yes - that is how an average is worked out, did you not do basic math? ... doh
You may not like whoscored (or Opta or Sqwaka) but they all say the same thing ... Ozil was great he is now below average ... shooting the messenger doesn't change the message.