September 05, 2008
Players' Impact
After last nights victory over FC Dallas to put us back into contention for the playoffs, I decided to do a little analysis of players to see what kind of impact they have on the team. Now all these stats were manually compiled - so I'm sure there some errors but here's what I found.
Not surprisingly, Pablo Mastroeni has the biggest impact on the team. When he plays, we pick up 60% of the possible points PP (pts gained/games played * 3 pts). He's been on the field for 22 goals for us and 15 against us and is the only player on the team that has seen more wins at 8 then losses at 7.
Next up for impact was Terry Cooke. I know you're not surprised that he has achieved a PP of 57% contributing 2 goals and 6 assists. But the perception that he's a defensive liability falls shallow when his Goal Differential (GD) is +4, second highest on the team.
Two players at the top of PP is John DiRaimondo (52%) and Ugo Ihemelu (50%). Ugo has a GD of +2 surprisingly and John -1.
Looking at two players that were shipped off Herculez Gomez and Rafael Gomes and the stats speak for themselves; Herc ranked 4th from bottom with a PP of 40% and Gomes at 14%! That's right, we were 1-6 with Gomes on the field. Herculez, often brought in at the end of the game, had a GD of +1 while Gomes was -1.
Two players that have seen significant time on the bench are Christian Gomez and Jose Burciaga, Jr. with PP of 41% for both. Gomez is -1 while Burciaga, Jr. is -4, third worst on the team.
So who who has a GD of worse then -6? Colin Clark and Conor Casey. We've lost 5 more games then we've won with Clark on the field, which is quite surprising for a player of Clark's popularity.
Touching on the other regulars: Erpen 47% +0, Cummings 47% -1, Kimura 45% +3, LaBrocca 44% +1, Ballouchy 44% +1, McManus 44% +3, Harvey 43% -2, Peterson 42% -2
I know stats don't tell the whole story in soccer but we're a nation of sports statistics so hopefully people will appreciate a little statistical analysis.
Posted by mark at September 5, 2008 12:18 PM