Howdy all! It's taken me a while to get back to this for various life reasons, but I have finally collected all of the average scores (as voted by you and I) from the Post-Match Ratings, combined and then cultivated that data into a nice spreadsheet that I now cede to you all!
I have provided some screenshots and stats below for convenience but, feel free to peruse the link provided.
During the process, I went a little deeper and added additional things like wins/draws/loses, notes for goal scorers, tracked injuries, suspensions, benched players who didn't feature and so on. Those can be found on the other sheets in the document, along with all player scores and a summary I made on how I felt the season went in each competition.
Disclosure: The stats are purely based off of what was rated in the Post-Match Ratings as a collective and therefore is not necessarily representative of any one individual. It also doesn't factor in minutes played, substitutes, starters, dismissals, etc.
Overall Average Totals
- 🔺Denotes Out on Loan
- 🔻Denotes On Loan to the Club
Saka takes the top spot with the highest Overall, Premier League and Champions League averages over 37 games.
Or did he?
Although only playing two games total, Nathan Butler-Oyedeji topped in the Overall, Premier League and Champions League Averages:
Kieran Tierney finished his Arsenal career featuring in 20 games with an average rating of 6.94, the 5th highest.
His highest score with 8.33, came in his MotM performance against Southampton in the final day of the season, his last in an Arsenal jersey.
Some other (potentially) interesting stats:
- PL Highest Score: 9.67 Bakayo Saka vs Nottingham Forest at Home
- Highest Overall Score (All Comps): 10.00 Declan Rice vs Real Madrid at Home and Ethan Nwaneri vs Bolton Wanderers at Home
- Lowest Overall Score (All Comps): 1.00 Mikel Merino vs Nottingahm Forest Away
- Featured Most: 56 Leandro Trossard
- Featured Once: 9 Ayden Heaven, Ismeal Kabia, Maldini Kacurri, Reiss Nelson, Norberto Neto, Josh Nichols, Jack Porter, Tommy Setford and Takehiro Tomiyasu
- Total Goalkeepers Used: 4 Norberto Neto (1), Jack Porter (1), David Raya (55) and Tommy Setford (1)
- MotM: Bukayo Saka was voted MotM 9 times, followed by Declan Rice on 8 and Ethan Nwaneri on 6
- Myles Lewis-Skelly was voted MotM with 6.38 despite getting a red card in the match against Wolverhampton Wanderers
I could spend so much more time delving into these stats, but this feels like it's getting long. So, let me know if there's anything else you want me to pick out. I still plan on tweaking and tinkering as I go.
I plan on doing the same again for this season. I have a template setup now, so I should be able to just put the data in and get most of what I'm after.
Let me know if there's anything else you'd like me to delve into or if you have any recommendations!
This is my biggest issue with it.
Social media has become a blight on society on all levels. Not just children.
But, there's a lack of education or push for children, and adults too, to be smarter online. They're just instituting laws and legislation and pushing the onus on corporations to comply.
Sounds good at face value but doesn't factor in smaller companies who are unable to afford the changes needed to comply (resulting in the pulling out of a region) or they institute dodgey 3rd party verification systems that will just on-sell your data.
Then, there's the world of dodgey VPNs that kids and people have rushed to. Also, as other people have said, children have found work arounds for age verification.
So, what's the point? What did we actually achieve? I sometimes defer to the old addage of never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Sometimes I feel it's more like naievity or good intenaions being controlled by malicious forces.
I don't know.
What I feel though is that it just doesn't feel like it's truly about the children. If it is, there should be a whole lot more factored into this.
Instead it feels like a half baked plan being sold to us as being for the children.