WhoScored Player Ratings - Premier League 21/22

[Bacon Sandwich]

I make no comment on this, but here are WhoScored’s player ratings for the Premier League 21/22 season.

Applying the ‘minimum appearances’ filter, a total of 303 players receive an impartial WhoScored rating. Top is KDB with 7.64, followed by Salah, TAA and Son. The first non-big 6 player is Ivan Toney in 10th, with a rating of 7.30

Wolves players feature as follows:

RAN – 50th – 6.97

Traore – 57th – 6.94

Kilman – 83rd – 6.87

Neves – 88th – 6.86

Saiss – 98th – 6.84

Sa – 104th – 6.82

Semedo – 105th – 6.82

Podence – 121st – 6.78

Marcal – 136th – 6.75

Moutinho – 162nd – 6.71

Coady – 190th – 6.64

Jimenez – 192nd – 6.64

Trincao – 208th – 6.60

Hwang – 222nd – 6.56

Donk – 250th – 6.46

Fabio – 303rd – 6.09

For anyone who wants to draw their own conclusions – not least on Harry Maguire – the link is here https://www.whoscored.com/Regions/2...erStatistics/England-Premier-League-2021-2022

 

[Fenrir_]

This is the same rating system that gave John McGinn MOTM at Molineux for what I can only say was chasing Moutinho's shadow for 90 minutes, in the same game, it reckoned that only Coady was a worse Wolves player than Moutinho

It's really, really not an indicator, of anything at all

 

[WolfLing]

This is the same rating system that gave John McGinn MOTM at Molineux for what I can only say was chasing Moutinho's shadow for 90 minutes, in the same game, it reckoned that only Coady was a worse Wolves player than Moutinho

It's really, really not an indicator, of anything at all

Like any scoring system, it will have its floors. But like any scoring system, if every player is scored in the same way, it will be a decent enough guide to relative performance.

303 players, with 9 of our 16 in the top half, means 9th or 10th is probably about right based on these scores.

 

[WolfLing]

Just for info.....

WhoScored Ratings Explained​

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[Northampton_wolf]

Useful site if anyone wants to look at it -

Football Stats | Player Comparisons | Team Analyses | xvalue.ai

Data Visualization and Analytics tools to better compare football players and teams. Machine learning algorithms. Rankings. Top-11 selections. Scouting tools.

analytics.soccerment.com

Stand ous are SA Kilman and Saiss

Goals Prevented​

José Sá​

Wolverhampton
8.26

2	M. Dubravka | 33 | GK	3.61
3	N. Pope | 30 | GK	3.47
4	Robert Sánchez | 24 | GK	3.31
5	D. de Gea | 31 | GK	3.13

Clearances​

J. Tarkowski​

Burnley
179

2	P. Jansson | 31 | CB	178
3	G. Hanley | 30 | CB	172
4	R. Saïss | 32 | DMC	149
5	M. Salisu | 23 | CB	149

Defending​

P. Jones​

Manchester United
86

2	C. Romero | 24 | CB	81
3	J. Matip | 30 | CB	77
4	T. Chalobah | 22 | CB	67
5	Thiago Silva | 37 | CB	66
6	M. Salisu | 23 | CB	65
7	M. Kilman | 24 | CB	64

 

[Contrarian]

Yes, it's flawed, but over time balances out. And is better than most fan ratings where a mediocre 1-0 win gets ratings of 8/10 minimum for everybody and a mediocre 0-1 defeat gets 2/10 ratings for everbody!

I think it's goalkeeper ratings are the most questionable. When a keeper has little to do, they'll get 6.

But overall, I think the message is about right - too many of our squad have been turning in 6/10 performances. Especially on the attacking side. While defensively the likes of Kilman & RaN (and Coady and Saiss until it went pear shaped for some unknown reason) were delivering 7/10 and better. Maybe Kilman is the key to all of it as things went downhill when first he had a small drop in form, then got injured.

Traore and Podence as our most creative forwards seems definitely right to me. Trailing behind them we have Raul/Trincao/Hwang all had moments, but overall very disappointing, not up to standard. Donk and Fabio... oh dear - no points for merely "running around looking busy", then.

 

[WolfLing]

Useful site if anyone wants to look at it -

Football Stats | Player Comparisons | Team Analyses | xvalue.ai

Data Visualization and Analytics tools to better compare football players and teams. Machine learning algorithms. Rankings. Top-11 selections. Scouting tools.

analytics.soccerment.com

Stand ous are SA Kilman and Saiss

Goals Prevented​

José Sá​

Wolverhampton
8.26

2	M. Dubravka | 33 | GK	3.61
3	N. Pope | 30 | GK	3.47
4	Robert Sánchez | 24 | GK	3.31
5	D. de Gea | 31 | GK	3.13

Clearances​

J. Tarkowski​

Burnley
179

2	P. Jansson | 31 | CB	178
3	G. Hanley | 30 | CB	172
4	R. Saïss | 32 | DMC	149
5	M. Salisu | 23 | CB	149

Defending​

P. Jones​

Manchester United
86

2	C. Romero | 24 | CB	81
3	J. Matip | 30 | CB	77
4	T. Chalobah | 22 | CB	67
5	Thiago Silva | 37 | CB	66
6	M. Salisu | 23 | CB	65
7	M. Kilman | 24 | CB	64

PHIL JONES!!!!!

 

[Fenrir_]

Like any scoring system, it will have its floors. But like any scoring system, if every player is scored in the same way, it will be a decent enough guide to relative performance.

303 players, with 9 of our 16 in the top half, means 9th or 10th is probably about right based on these scores.

It depends how it's weighted, and obviously being what it is it has to be done according to hard data so uses stats. But attributing a score between 6-10 based on stats doesn't demonstrate what the OP keeps implying - that our players aren't good enough. It can say they haven't played well overall, but it can't determine whether they're good enough or been playing to anywhere near potential

 

[WolfLing]

It depends how it's weighted, and obviously being what it is it has to be done according to hard data so uses stats. But attributing a score between 6-10 based on stats doesn't demonstrate what the OP keeps implying - that our players aren't good enough. It can say they haven't played well overall, but it can't determine whether they're good enough or been playing to anywhere near potential

Yeah, if you look at the scoring criteria I posted above, it's clearly going to be weighted more to teams that have the ball more (so do more things during a game).

Toney's score does illustrate how involved he is at Brentford. Would be a great focal point!!