They've devised a 'player ratings aggregator' for the Prem matches. Might be interesting to a few of you. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...atings-aggregator-8775114.html?action=gallery
Didn't think we had a player callled 'Redman'!!! Interesting to see Barkley was MoM and would agree with that!!!
Another person with a gift for stating the obvious , but these are daft ratings as we all know RVW was better. I think a few of the ratings are off, Ruddy for instance made some good saves and deserves a higher rating than that.
I'd say that 0.8 difference is saying RvW was quite a bit better to be honest. That's about 13% better. RvW is about right, Hoolahan probably a bit overrated by the journalists on average compared to how I feel he did. Yes, Hoolahan lost the ball a lot, but equally he was jumped on by two or three players regularly, which opens space elsewhere in the pitch. Also, there were a couple of times in the second half where he worked his way around Fellaini very nicely, so to give Hoolahan less than a 5.5/10 would have been harsh. In contrast, through no fault of his own, RvW didn't feature much, made good runs, had one shot on target which he scored brilliantly, had another clean header that he mucked up a little, though won a corner - so any more than 7 would be a bit generous. My assessment of ratings <5/10 = poor and had an actively negative impact on the team/game - the lower the score the more significant the damage 5/10-6/10 = not very good, but didn't really impact on the game 6/10-7/10 = played well, had a positive impact on the game, but didn't do anything unexpected for that individual 7/10+ = had a very good game, made a significant contribution - the higher the score the more significant the contribution Averaging the newspapers' views is a good way of assessing general opinions (it's about as objective as we're likely to get, unfortunately), but obviously doesn't necessarily reflect on what a manager wants from the player, just how that player reflects to viewers. In the same way ours don't.
