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Monday, August 11, 2014

Major League Soccer Player Ratings: August 11, 2014

Welcome back to Evans Rankings. It has been a crazy past five months but it is good to be back where this whole journey started. We have shifted our focus here at Evans Rankings from a team ranking system to a player ranking system which I developed during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. I decided that I liked it so much that I wanted to expand to Major League Soccer and the English Premier League. For now, those will be the only two leagues that are covered here. The overall Top 25 Rankings will be posted here as well as some weekly award pieces, if you are looking for a player-by-player breakdown for any team in particular then look for which tab they would qualify under on the top bar here and you'll be able to find them.

For today's post we are looking at the overall Top 25 players in Major League Soccer according to the Evans Rankings MLS Player Database.

Rank
Player
Points
Club
1
Robbie Keane
40.45
Los Angeles Galaxy
2
Bradley Wright-Phillips
38.95
New York Red Bulls
3
Diego Valeri
37.73
Portland Timbers
4
Pedro Morales
36.88
Vancouver Whitecaps
5
Dom Dwyer
35.56
Sporting Kansas City
6
Erick Torres
35.02
Chivas USA
7
Javier Morales
33.23
Real Salt Lake
8
Thierry Henry
33.00
New York Red Bulls
9
Obafemi Martins
30.99
Seattle Sounders FC
10
Giles Barnes
30.54
Houston Dynamo
11
Joao Plata
30.09
Real Salt Lake
12
Federico Higuain
30.04
Columbus Crew
13
Drew Moor
29.80
Colorado Rapids
14
Will Johnson
29.80
Portland Timbers
15
Harry Shipp
29.75
Chicago Fire
16
Clint Dempsey
28.40
Seattle Sounders FC
17
Lee Nguyen
28.37
New England Revolution
18
Sebastien Le Toux
28.35
Philadelphia Union
19
Will Bruin
28.21
Houston Dynamo
20
Dillon Powers
28.11
Colorado Rapids
21
Stefan Frei
28.05
Seattle Sounders FC
22
Eric Alexander
28.03
New York Red Bulls
23
David Ousted
27.80
Vancouver Whitecaps
24
Bobby Boswell
27.44
D.C. United
25
Jon Busch
27.40
San Jose Earthquakes

How Our Points Are Calculated:

It is a little complicated but our points system is based on the statistics that a player accumulated over a season. Each individual stat is given a numeric value which is then added all together to determine their point value. Here is a breakdown of each stat's numeric value:
STAT
Points Per
Notes
Each Match Played In
0.50

Each Match Started
0.25

Minutes per Match
0.01

Goals Scored
1.00

Assists
1.00

Shots
0.05

Shots on Target
0.10

Offsides
-0.10

Fouls Committed
-0.05

Fouls Suffered
0.05

Yellow Cards
-0.50

Red Cards
-1.00

Wins
0.10
GKs only
Losses
-0.10
GKs only
Draws
0.05
GKs only
Saves
0.10
GKs only
Goals Allowed
-0.10
GKs only
Clean Sheets
1.00
GK and DEF only

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