Buzzin Football

Ahead of the forthcoming England international matches, fans will be in heated debate as to whether a certain player should or should not be playing for his country; and apart from unanimous decision (surely) that it was a complete waste of time calling up a virtual cripple, in Ledley King, to join the squad, we all have our own view on which players perform best when they don the three lions for a World Cup match.

Whereas our own views are entirely subjective, Castrol has produced an entirely objective way of measuring every players performance throughout every minute of every World Cup 2010 qualifying game.

The Castrol Performance Index (CPI) is an innovative way of using technology and statistics to objectively analyse player performance by ranking a player’s contribution to a team’s overall play in terms of scoring and conceding goals.

I was personally surprised to find Wayne Rooney is the highest scoring England player over the course of England’s 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, thus far.  In fact, Wayne Rooney is currently ranked No. 1 overall, and is the only England player in the top 30 (Rio Ferdinand is ranked 32nd).

The Castrol Player Index is fascinating. See how the CPI works and start analysing England player performances more closely with these fascinating statistics.

Now we have been introduced to the Castrol Player Index we will be referring to it for the latest player statistics to analyse players performances for forthcoming World Cup qualifying games.