Digging into Gooch’s Low Casterol Index – The Adjusted Data

As described in the prior post, we are looking at the data of six defenders to try and get a sense of what factors the Casterol Index used to rank Oguchi Onyewu the worst defender (and player) at the Confederations Cup.

Because only two of our six defenders played the same amount of minutes, we are adjusting the data by dividing the player’s total number of minutes by 450 (a full 5 matches).  Multiplying any of their statistics by this result roughly evens out the stats.

Here is the adjusted data.  The multiple we used to adjust the data is signified in the “ADJ” row.  As before, the original data is from fifa.com.

	Lucio	A. Santos	Puyol	M. Booth	Spector	Onyewu
Score	9.13	8.70	7.98	7.01	3.92	3.14
D. Rank	1	2	6	13	29	34
Minutes	430	335	270	480	450	450
ADJ	1.046512	1.343284	1.666667	0.9375	1	1
Team GF	14	10	7	4	8	8
Team GA	5	2	2	6	9	9
Yellows	1.05	2.69	0.00	0.00	1.00	1.00
FC	3.14	8.06	3.33	5.63	4.00	7.00
FS	4.19	12.09	6.67	1.88	9.00	5.00
Handball	0.00	0.00	1.67	0.00	0.00	1.00
Goals	1.05	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Shots	8.37	10.75	3.33	1.88	1.00	1.00
SOG	6.28	4.03	1.67	0.00	0.00	0.00
Solo R	3.14	18.81	0.00	0.94	6.00	0.00
TS	0.00	2.69	0.00	1.88	4.00	1.00
TSL	0.00	1.34	0.00	0.00	1.00	0.00
LB	1.05	4.03	3.33	0.94	6.00	0.00
Assists	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	2.00	0.00
DPA	0.00	9.40	1.67	2.81	1.00	1.00
TCK	8.37	2.69	0.00	3.75	4.00	10.00
TGP	6.28	2.69	0.00	0.00	1.00	2.00
CLR	15.70	5.37	0.00	14.06	7.00	21.00
RB	15.70	4.03	0.00	2.81	3.00	14.00
CC	9.42	1.34	0.00	2.81	2.00	9.00
CCR	60%	25%	-	20%	29%	43%
Passes	220.81	368.06	256.67	184.69	174.00	136.00
SPR	89%	88%	85%	80%	48%	47%
MPR	84%	87%	91%	80%	62%	73%
LPR	84%	75%	74%	63%	41%	52%
DC (km)	43.33	49.57	45.33	47.72	51.30	45.90
DCP (km)	16.85	22.43	18.50	16.59	16.00	13.50
DCN (km)	16.74	18.40	17.17	20.81	24.00	22.20