The official Premier League Player Performance Index (PPI) sponsored by EA Sports makes interesting reading after 4 matches.
Just two Hammers make the top 25 with Stewart Downing leading the way in 16th place on 89 points and Mark Noble ranking 25th with 77 points down from a previous a 15th. Mauro Zarate is followed Cheikhou Kouyate who make the 3rd and 4th highest ranking West Ham players and manage 48th and 85th places respectively in the league followed by Aaron Creswell who is the 5th highest ranking Hammer and 114th in the Premier League index.
It is a slippery slope from there onwards with Adrian ranked 131st position on 38 points. Bottom of the pile is James Collins on -6 which earns him 354th place.
Enner Valencia moves up 171 places after Monday night with 35 index points, 34 of them were earned last night. He is ranked 145th just one point behind Carlton Cole on 35 points in 137th place.
The EA SPORTS PPI is the official player rating index of the Barclays Premier League which measures a player’s all round contribution to the success of his team using six key indices.
1. Winning Performance
Players receive points for time on the pitch in a successful team. Players will receive more points if they play the full 90 minutes in a winning team. This index shares league points won by a team between the players according to the minutes they are on the pitch. Only time on the pitch and points scored are taken into account in this first index.
2. Player’s Performance per match
Players receive points for positive influences on a winning performance (shots on target, tackles, clearances, saves etc). Players have points taken away from their score for negative actions such as shots off target and receiving yellow and/or red cards.
3. Appearances
Players receive points for minutes on the pitch. The number of points won by ALL teams in the Barclays Premier League are divided among the players according to the number of minutes they have played. This does not take into account the result of a match, it awards points purely for playing time.
4. Goals scored
Players are awarded points for scoring goals. These points are only given to the goalscorer.
5. Assists
Players are awarded points for assists. These points are only awarded to players that make the assist.
Assists are awarded to the player from the goal scoring team who makes the last touch before the goal is scored.
If after this touch, an opposing player touches the ball outside the penalty area altering the intended destination of the ball, then no assist is given, except if this intervention directly results in an own goal.In the event of a penalty or free-kick, the player earning the penalty or free-kick gets an assist if a goal is directly scored, but not if he takes it himself, in which case no assist is given.
6. Clean sheets
Allocates points for clean sheets to the whole team. The proportionate split of the points is weighted according to the player’s position. Therefore a goalkeeper will be awarded a greater proportion of the points for keeping a clean sheet than a striker. The points are also awarded proportionately to the time spent on the pitch.
The overall EA SPORTS PPI is a correlation between all of the above six indices. The Index only includes actions that can be measured objectively and does not reward one action more than another (e.g. a pass by a midfielder will not gain more points than a tackle made by a defender). Subjective factors relating to individual players’ skill levels or evidence of a specific flair, such as a particularly spectacular pass or goal, are not included within the index.The intention of the index assessment is to remove any opinion bias and only work with proven statistical measurements which become more accurate as the season progresses.
It will be interesting to see our player progress in this index as the season moves on.
You can find the full Premier League PPI HERE To isolate West Ham just select West Ham in table view drop down menu.