Still №1

• in the News
• at 18th.Apr.2011

Even being a substitute for most of the games lately, Dimitar Berbatov is still the best player in the Barclays Premier League this season. He is first in the Player Performance Index, a statistics by EA SPORTS.

What is the EA SPORTS Index?

The EA SPORTS Player Performance Index is the only official player rating index of the Barclays Premier League which measures a player’s all round contribution to the success of his team using six key indices.
Key indices are:
1. Winning Performance;
2. Player’s Performance per match;
3. Appearances;
4. Goals scored;
5. Assists;
6. Clean sheets;
The overall EA SPORTS Player Performance Index is a correlation between all of the above six indices.
More info is available here.

Berbatov is the current goalscorer in the Premier League with his 21 goals (up to April 18th, 2011). In the Player Performance Index mentioned above, he is one of the fifth United players, followed by Nemanja Vidic, Luis Nani, Wayne Rooney, and Patrice Evra.

Interesting fact is that in the Top20 there are only a 6 English players, and none of them is in Top5.