Villa players the better from Fabs poor squad

[Gaztonniller]

Seems like the Villa representation didnt do too badly in the Fab ratings
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/17/fabio-capello-england-capello-index

World Cup 2010: Fabio Capello rates England players on Capello Index• Site caused controversy before the World Cup
• Jermain Defoe given the highest rating
   (27)Tweet this (53)Jon Brodkin guardian.co.uk, Saturday 17 July 2010 02.46 BST Article history
Fabio Capello has rated the performances of England's players at the World Cup. Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP
 
Fabio Capello has published his controversial Capello Index ratings for England's players from the World Cup. The England manager was prevented by the Football Association from running the marks during the tournament but has now gone public with his assessment of their performances.

The goalkeeper Robert Green gets the lowest mark for the tournament with a rating of 51.67 out of 100, having made a dreadful mistake in his only game, against the USA. Jermain Defoe tops the list with an average of 62.47 across the matches he played, which included scoring the winner against Slovenia.

England's second-best player according to the Capello Index was John Terry (60.48). Uruguay's Diego Forlán, who was awarded the official player of the tournament award, gets an average score of 65.77 by comparison.

Wayne Rooney, widely accepted to have had a dismal World Cup, is marked at 58.87, marginally higher than Spain's Fernando Torres and only slightly less than Jérôme Boateng, part of the Germany team that finished third at the tournament.

England's best individual performance of the tournament was rated by the index to be Steven Gerrard's against the USA (66.36).

The marks are calculated using a complicated scoring system which awards points for categories such as long passing, assists, mistakes, dribbles, goals, shots and headers.

Average mark given to England's players
Robert Green 51.67

David James 59.28

Glen Johnson 57.18

John Terry 60.48

Ledley King 57.50

Jamie Carragher 59.04

Matthew Upson 60.21

Ashley Cole 59.58

Aaron Lennon 57.64

Frank Lampard 58.58

Steven Gerrard 60.98

James Milner 59.40

Gareth Barry 57.50

Shaun Wright-Phillips 61.09

Joe Cole 55.45

Wayne Rooney 58.87

Emile Heskey 60.15

Jermain Defoe 62.47

Peter Crouch did not play enough minutes to generate a mark

[ian c.]

Looking at SWP's score you must get extra marks for running the ball out of play and sending crosses somewhere behind the goal line.

[rutski]

What a complete load of bollocks, no wonder we were so shit, but i suppose as just the fans we are not intelligent or understand football enough to form a valid opinion on the performance of the team!
A complete cull of overhyped self important players is what is needed!
I would like to see his marks out of 10 for the most loathesome, self important and disruptive players out of the current bunch!

[placeforparks]

great. that's me placated.

[pauliewalnuts]

I wonder how on earth he thinks publishing this now is going to help smooth things over following the world cup?

And he thinks Terry had a comparatively decent world cup?

Crikey.

[TheSandman]

So in order:

1. Jermain Defoe

2. Shaun Wright-Phillips

3. Stephen Gerrard

4. John Terry

5. Matthew Upson

6. Emile Heskey

7. Ashley Cole

8. James Milner

9. David James

10. Jamie Carragher

11. Wayne Rooney

12. Frank Lampard

13. Aaron Lennon

14=. Gareth Barry

14=. Ledley King

16. Glen Johnson

17. Joe Cole

18. Robert Green

[The Man With A Stick]

Capello didn't want this to be published and now wants it to be taken down!  What a shambles.

[Nev]

Capello didn't want this to be published and now wants it to be taken down! What a shambles.

Cheeky twat, getting chippy about something so trivial. He should be more concerned about the job he is paid a kings ransom for.

[old man villa fan]

So in order:

1. Jermain Defoe

2. Shaun Wright-Phillips

3. Stephen Gerrard

4. John Terry

5. Matthew Upson

6. Emile Heskey

7. Ashley Cole

8. James Milner

9. David James

10. Jamie Carragher

11. Wayne Rooney

12. Frank Lampard

13. Aaron Lennon

14=. Gareth Barry

14=. Ledley King

16. Glen Johnson

17. Joe Cole

18. Robert Green

Crikey, it just shows how stats can make it look as though I was watching different matches to the experts.

I suppose 10 succesfull back/sideways passes are always better than one defence splitting pass!

I see John Terry's mate scored highly.  A player not playing is always better than the one that actually gets on the pitch.

[Risso]

Shaun Wright-Phillips gave one of the worst performances of an England player at this or any other World Cup, and Capello thinks he was our second best player?  

£6m a year well spent.

[LeeB]

Things can be missed by the naked eye, and if you use it as a tool to help fill in the gaps about a players individual performance I don't see what the problem is.

[villa1]

If he uses the stats to help with improving the playing performance and genuinely didn't want them to be published, then fair enough.

If he did it for personal gain then he needs to start concentrating on what he's being paid a fortune to do!

[Mac]

Isn't this website just using a ranking system developed by Capello years ago and not his actual scores?

[KevinGage]

Lies, damn lies and all that.

I'm sure VD is cracking one off though, at the thought of yet another foolproof method of assessing football.

Terry played badly you say?

Well the amount of throw ins he took actually negates the times he was too slow to close his man down, so he gets a score of 6.35. Or something.

[BannedUserIAT]

If they're his scores, then I'd say his judgement is some way off sane. If it's his system, then it needs tweaking.