Who was the USA most productive player in the Gold Cup 2011 final Mexico-USA?

By Sergio Ramos

According to the exhibit below, the best soccer player in the final match of the Gold Cup between Mexico-USA, played on Saturday, June 25, was Landon Donovan, followed pretty closely by Michael Bradley and Carlos Bocanegra. In fact, we can distinguish two different groups; those who obtained a score above 100, and those who were below. Another way to look at it is to relate them to average. As we can see, only the first 5 player are above it (123). It is, therefore, very difficult to win a final match or any competition having more players below the mean than those above it, when a team is formed by at least 11 excellent players. These values are obtained by a methodology developed by Sergio Ramos Osorio, that quantifies every participation of a soccer player in a play.  Their participation can be good, very good or excellent or its negative counterpart. Each of these qualitative evaluations receives a quantitative value, summing up to obtain a total score for each player.

These values are used as an indicator to the coach or team owners to make the necessary changes in order to increase
competitiveness; then, these same values are transformed into financial statements, obtaining a cost-benefit relationship and, as in any other asset, a net return.

Further information can be obtained at: www.ceis1999.com, English section, soccer section.  Sergio Ramos is looking for a soccer team to measure its productivity.
Sergio Ramos e-mail: [email protected]

USA soccer best player in the USA-Mexico match

Position     Soccer player      T shirt #     Total score

1           Landon Donavan           10                 345
2          Michael Bradley              4                  335
3          Carlos Bocanegra            3                  275
4          Lichaj                               14                  190
5          Adu                                   20                 170
6          Clint Dempsey                 8                  105
7          Steve Cherundulo           6                    50
8          Kljestan                            16                  50
9          Jones                                13                   40
10        Tim Howard                    1                     25
11         Agudelo                            9                    10
12        Bornstein                         12                   10
13        Bedoya                             22                    0

TOTAL            1605
AVERAGE        123