Thursday, May 12, 2011

 MLS Unveils Castrol Index

There's a new feature up at MLSsoccer.com that analyzes player performances for every game in Major League Socccer this season. The Castrol Index logs an average of 1,800 player movement per match, tracking where those movements take place and whether those movements are positive or negative contributions to that player's team. Read more at the Castrol Index homepage and watch the video of MLS Commissioner Don Garber introducing the new tool.

The scores are in for all matches played in April, an accumulation of points earned in each game played, and here is how Sporting Kansas City players stacked up...

Rank
Player
Team
Minutes
Score
41
Davy Arnaud
Sporting Kansas City
416
7.96
77
Matt Besler
Sporting Kansas City
450
7.34
81
Roger Espinoza
Sporting Kansas City
450
7.28
106
C.J. Sapong
Sporting Kansas City
450
6.93
143
Teal Bunbury
Sporting Kansas City
303
6.45
163
Milos Stojcev
Sporting Kansas City
400
6.21
174
Kei Kamara
Sporting Kansas City
354
6.08
194
Jimmy Nielsen
Sporting Kansas City
450
5.84
208
Birahim Diop
Sporting Kansas City
276
5.67
211
Omar Bravo
Sporting Kansas City
122
5.63
214
Michael Harrington
Sporting Kansas City
270
5.6
234
Julio César
Sporting Kansas City
243
5.35
260
Stephane Auvray
Sporting Kansas City
153
5.02
286
Luke Sassano
Sporting Kansas City
72
4.67
290
Scott Lorenz
Sporting Kansas City
84
4.62
292
Chance Myers
Sporting Kansas City
108
4.59
304
Craig Rocastle
Sporting Kansas City
65
4.41
310
Aurelien Collin
Sporting Kansas City
75
4.32
345
Shavar Thomas
Sporting Kansas City
36
3.67
350
Ryan Smith
Sporting Kansas City
3
3.63
356
Graham Zusi
Sporting Kansas City
75
3.63
361
Korede Aiyegbusi
Sporting Kansas City
3
3.63

1 comment:

Chad said...

Smith played the 2H of the Red Bulls game, yet they show he's only played 3 minutes.

This being said, the data presented by Castrol is flawed and should be called into question (meaning: the chart is worthless as it displays incorrect calculations).

In the future, it may behoove you (SKC) to do a little fact checking before throwing up stats... especially ones which tell a story (good, bad, meh) about the team/club.

Chad