Game Value · player
Does it see more than plus‑minus?
Each participant rates every appearance in five leagues. The ratings freeze at the round’s deadline and are then asked to order football that had not been played yet — against the same question answered by each player’s own on-pitch goal difference. What is published is the increment, and a rating that quietly follows the scoreboard scores zero.
Player Value ranking
Did the coach pick who you rated?
Week ending 2026-W44, 2026/2027. Of two players at the same club, in the same role, already playing about as much as each other, did the one rated higher get more of the next month’s minutes? That is agreement with the people who pick the team, not a measure of truth. It is never blended with the score.
| Rank RankOrdered by the skill score, because a table has to be in some order. The ordering is not the finding — two rows a hundredth apart are not separated by anything this board can measure. Read the standing under each number, which is the interval's answer, before the position. | Participant ParticipantThe name this row is published under, and how it got here. A row marked 'entered by the Arena' is a published rating the Arena reads and enters on the vendor's behalf: it did not submit, and it is scored exactly like one that did. A row marked 'scored under an exception' rests partly on segments played before it certified, under a stated reason — open the badge for the reason. | Skill score Skill scoreHow much better the rating orders the next five club matches' minutes than the player's own prior minutes share already does. The bar matters: without it a rating would be credited for telling a regular from a reserve, which is not a claim. Clubs are resampled for the interval, because one coach makes every selection at his club. | Somers' D Somers' DSomers' D over (player, window) pairs formed inside one club, one broad role, one window and one minutes band — so the comparison is always between players competing for the same place, already playing about as much as each other. Beneath it, the bar: the same statistic for the player's own share of minutes over the previous five club matches. The skill score is the difference. | Pairs PairsThe comparisons behind the figure. Fewer pairs than the score column by orders of magnitude, which is why this ranking resolves so much coarser. | Players PlayersDistinct players appearing in at least one window. A player appears in seven or eight windows across a season, which is why the interval resamples clubs rather than rows. |
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| 1 | FotMobEntered by the Arena · not submitted by the vendorScored under an exception Scored under an exceptionPublished a rating per appearance since the season began; delivered on enrolment in September, when the board began accepting them. The Arena confirmed no leakage: the ratings are the source's own published figures, unchanged, and were fixed before any result they are scored against. — 750 segment(s) played before this participant certified, scored under an exception granted 2026-09-27 reaching back to 2026-09-29 Weeks and pair counts | +0.175−0.453 to +0.860Level with the minutes he was already playing | +0.222the bar +0.048 | 63 | 261 |
| 2 | WhoScoredEntered by the Arena · not submitted by the vendorScored under an exception Scored under an exceptionPublished a rating per appearance since the season began; delivered on enrolment in September, when the board began accepting them. From 26 September to 27 October the Arena's own pipeline failed to store these ratings (a bucket permission refused the upload), so they could not be delivered before their deadlines; delivered on 27 October once repaired. The ratings are the source's own published figures, unchanged, fixed before any result they are scored against. — 750 segment(s) played before this participant certified, scored under an exception granted 2026-10-27 reaching back to 2026-10-27 Weeks and pair counts | +0.156−0.427 to +0.688Level with the minutes he was already playing | +0.188the bar +0.031 | 64 | 268 |
This column resolves far coarser than the score — about 16.8 times wider an interval on this week's rows. It rests on a few thousand (player, window) comparisons resampled by club, because one coach makes every selection at his club and one player appears in seven or eight windows. An ordering here separates two products far more rarely than the score does, and a row that reads level is the expected result rather than a disappointing one.
2026-09-game-value-player-v0Skill score here is the rating’s Somers’ D over (player, window) pairs minus the bar’s — the player’s own share of minutes over the previous five club matches — so anyone can tell a starter from a substitute, and only anticipating the coach counts. Clubs are resampled for the interval. How it is computed.How to read it
Level with plus-minus is the honest first-season result
A skill score is a difference between two concordance statistics measured on the same segments. Over three rehearsed seasons the two published rating products separated from each other by about 0.015 — while against plus-minus itself one was flat throughout and the other cleared zero in a single season. So most rows will carry an interval that contains zero, and the board says level with plus-minus in words rather than implying an ordering its own numbers refuse. A row that stays a little clear of the baseline for two seasons has shown something a row sitting at +0.05 for one week has not.
The two rankings are not a first and second opinion. One asks whether the goals followed the players a rating liked; the other asks whether the coach did. A product can be strong on either without being strong on the other, and that is a finding rather than a contradiction. There is no combined figure on this page because the Arena has no defensible weighting between them — inventing one would make up the most important number here.
The selection column also resolves several times coarser than the score, so it separates two products far more rarely. Read the board column by column, or the protocol for the segments, the deadlines, the stratification and how each interval is resampled.