The mass media, the football supporters and other experts in many countries are
often engaged in the ranking of football players. Given the heterogeneity of various
leagues or series in which players play, such a comparison is almost impossible. On
the other hand, the performance of players in international tournaments, like the
FIFA world cup at the national team level, or the UEFA Champions League at the
European Club level, can be measured, if we rely on “objective” measures and
statistics. Obviously, since various positions of players are evaluated by different
criteria, the heterogeneity is still apparent. In this paper we attempt to evaluate a
small subset of a team’s players, namely its scorers, using UEFA:s official match-play
statistics from the Champions League tournament 2006/07.
2007. no 4943