Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

On the Development of a Soccer Player Performance Rating System for the English Premier League

2012; Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences; Volume: 42; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1287/inte.1110.0589

1526-551X

Ian G. McHale, Philip Scarf, David E. Folker,

Sports Performance and Training

The EA Sports Player Performance Index is a rating system for soccer players used in the top two tiers of soccer in England—the Premier League and the Championship. Its development was a collaboration among professional soccer leagues, a news media association, and academia. In this paper, we describe the index and its construction. The novelty of the index lies in its attempts to rate all players using a single score, regardless of their playing specialty, based on player contributions to winning performances. As one might expect, players from leading teams lead the index, although surprises happen.