The Capello Index

Well, despite it not being posted on The Capello Index, Sky Sports is reporting the Capello grades for the English team at the World Cup. Personally, I'm still kind of freaked out by the fact that it said Emile Heskey was one of their best players. Actually, on second thought, that explains a lot.

According to the Capello Index site players are graded out of 100pts which are comprised of: Long Pass Quality, Cross Quality, Assists, Dribbling/Acceleration with the ball, Aerial Challenges, Movement Quality (1 v 1 and alone), Bookings (including non bookable fouls), Goals (including own goals), Interceptions and Defensive Cover, Pass/Shots, Free Kicks/Penalty Kicks, Recovery, Throw-ins, Long Range Pass Play and Switch Play, and something called "other events" which sounds like the ambiguous catch all.

Average marks awarded to England's players during the World Cup (mark out of 100):
Robert Green- 51.67		David James- 59.28
Joe Cole- 55.45		James Milner- 59.40
Glen Johnson- 57.18		Ashley Cole- 59.58
Ledley King- 57.50		Emile Heskey- 60.15
Gareth Barry- 57.50		Matthew Upson- 60.21
Aaron Lennon- 57.64		John Terry- 60.48
Frank Lampard- 58.58		Steven Gerrard- 60.98
Wayne Rooney- 58.87		Shaun Wright-Phillips- 61.09
Jamie Carragher- 59.04		Jermaine Defoe- 62.47
Peter Crouch did not play enough minutes to rate

While it promises to update more later to include La Liga and EPL games through the season, feel free to check out their Beta site now and follow up again later.

By the way, Iniesta was rated as the 4th best player on the site (4 teams aggregated so far) behind Forlan, Klose and Mueller.

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