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1 MPRA Mnich Personal RePEc Archive The relative efficiency of UEFA Champions Leage scorers Papahristodolo, Christos Mälardalen University/School of Bsiness 17. September 2007 Online at MPRA Paper No. 4943, posted 07. November 2007 / 04:19

2 The relative efficiency of UEFA Champions Leage scorers Christos Papahristodolo* Abstract The mass media, the football spporters and other experts in many contries are often engaged in the ranking of football players. Given the heterogeneity of varios leages or series in which players play, sch a comparison is almost impossible. On the other hand, the performance of players in international tornaments, like the FIFA world cp at the national team level, or the UEFA Champions Leage at the Eropean Clb level, can be measred, if we rely on objective measres and statistics. Obviosly, since varios positions of players are evalated by different criteria, the heterogeneity is still apparent. In this paper we attempt to evalate a small sbset of a team s players, namely its scorers, sing UEFA:s official match-play statistics from the Champions Leage tornament 2006/07. Keywords: efficiency, scorers, forwards, midfielders, Champions Leage, DEA *School of Bsiness, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden; christos.papahristodolo@mdh.se Tel;

3 1. Introdction All over the world, the media and football spporters try to rank teams and players, based on their own sbjective views and/or varios key parameters. The seeding of teams for the Champions Leage (CL) and the UEFA Cp is based on Bert Kassies estimates, who ses a nmber of varios match reslts coefficients and rankings ( UEFA also asks a nmber of team managers to nominate the best players in CL. FIFA asks 35 national team managers, team captains and representatives from FIFPro (the worldwide representative organization for professional players) to vote for the world player of the year. The French football magazine France Football has awarded the Ballon d Or (or the Eropean Footballer of the Year) since 1956, a prize which is considered as the most prestigios individal award in football. The nominee player mst have been playing for a Eropean team within UEFA s jrisdiction. France Football asks only a grop of Eropean football jornalists to participate in this voting ( The ranking of the best player among goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and forwards is obviosly a very difficlt task. For instance, one mst compare and evalate consistently amazing savings by goalkeepers, excellent tackling by defenders, wonderfl assists by midfielders, and otstanding goals by forwards. Some evalators might have watched these actions live, some others were told abot that or watched it later on, and some others were nlcky and watched instead extremely bad performances by these candidates. In addition, good or bad performances can not measred by jst one variable. For instance, the defender shold be evalated by his tackling, his cooperation with the other defenders and even midfielders, his smart play in terms of offside won or fols committed etc. Since sch data do not exist, sbjectivity is therefore apparent. Sport jornalists evalate players with point systems that differ among contries and jornals. In addition, low points do not necessarily imply bad performance, if the

4 player followed the instrctions given by his manager and might have sacrificed his own performance for the best of his team. On the other hand, scorers are easier to evalate becase goals scored and other relevant statistics related to goals, are available. The se of goals scored thogh, cases a strong bias mainly against defenders and also against midfielders. A few defenders score, sally from penalties, fol kicks or other occasions. For instance, in the 96 grop matches of the 2005/06 UEFA CL tornament, there were 228 goals. Ot of 48 players who scored at least two goals, 25 were forward, 21 midfielders and only 2 were defenders. Among other important performance statistics one can mention assists, shots on goal, and fols sffered. For instance, assists and fols sffered are not necessarily the privilege of forwards. Ths, if we inclde these measres, we are going to improve the ranking of midfielders who are not expected to score as many goals as the forwards. The prpose of this simple paper is to evalate every individal scorer and measre his performance, relative to an envelopment srface which is composed of other scorers, sing a mltiple inpt-mltiple otpt DEA approach. In section two we present or three LP models we sed in or estimates; in section three we discss or inpt and otpt variables and the procedre we applied in or estimates; in section for we present and comment on or estimates; finally, section five concldes the paper. 2. Envelopment models As is well known, the Data Envelopment Approach (DEA) approach envelops a data set of inpts and otpts, as tightly as possible (see, Charnes, et al. (1978), Ali and Seiford (1993), or Ali Emroznejad DEA homepage,

5 The merits of DEA are the following: it regards noise and efficiency simltaneosly and treats any slack or excess as inefficiency; it is less sensitive to the specification error which is common in econometric models; it can be applied even if the prodction technology is ncertain; it can handle many otpt measres simltaneosly. There are many Linear Programming (LP) formlations to identify the efficient scorers. When there are mltiple criteria, it is very hard to find scorers who beat all others in more-is-better-case (sch as more goals scored, more assists etc) and in less-is-better-case (sch as played less time, committed less fols etc). Some top scorers will remain at the top sing varios aspects, while others wold disregard the criteria in which they are ranked as inefficient. Simple comparisons or ratios are therefore not only meaningless, they are also misleading when the environment in which they operate differs from that of other scorers. The relative efficiency of scorers can not be decided nless we se as many relevant inpts and otpts, as possible, and apply varios envelopment models. In or estimates we sed the following three envelopment models: (i) Constant Retrns to Scale (CRS) envelopment min = 1 y x s λ 0, s = 1 m i i= 1 j= 1 s e λ λ + i n s e i j e j = y 0, e = x j s e 0 ( i1) ( i2 ) ( i3 ) ( i4 ) s i, otpt slack for mlti-otpt i = 1,,m; e j, inpt excess for mlti-inpt j = 1,,n; λ, nmber of scorers to be evalated, = 1,...,t; y s, otpt i of scorer ; x e, inpt j of scorer ;

6 Constraint (i2) states that the specific scorer cannot prodce more otpt than the efficient frontier. If he prodced as mch as the efficient frontier he wold be a part of the efficient frontier too, so that his otpt slack wold be zero. If he prodced less, he wold be inefficient and his inefficiency degree wold be eqal to his otpt slack. Constraint (i3) states that the investigated scorer cannot se less inpt than what the efficient inpt reqirements are. If he sed as mch as some other efficient inpt scorers he wold be efficient too, and his excess inpt wold be zero. If he sed more, he wold be inefficient and his inefficiency degree wold be eqal to his excess inpt. The investigated scorer t is efficient if λ t = 1, e t j = 0 and s t = 0. Similarly, any positive i otpt slack and/or excess inpt indicates λ t < 1, i.e. inefficiency. In that case, the inefficient scorer is not a frontier scorer and cold be projected theoretically by weighting some other efficient scorers. Notice that, the fact that there are no otpt slack or excess inpt does not necessarily imply that the optimal λ shold be 1. That might happen if the inpt scorer x is a convex combination of k j, while the otpt j scorer y i is a convex combination of k i, where k i k j. (ii) CCR 1, Inpt-Oriented Model In the LP formlation above, neither otpt(s) slack nor inpt(s) excess are analysed in detail. In oriented models the frontier remains the same and we seek a proportional decrease in inpts or a proportional increase in otpts. If for instance players are free to adjst their inpts (for instance commit less fols, or their managers cold have let them playing less time) in order to achieve some given otpt(s), an inpt-oriented model is appropriate. Inpt oriented models are relevant when at least two inpts are sed. Since inpts excess is non negative, the proportional decrease ends when at least one of the excess inpts variables is 1 CCR stands for Charner, Cooper, Rhodes (1978), the three athors who identified that model.

7 redced to zero. An appropriate formlation of the inpt-oriented problem is the following: min θ ε = 1 θ x y s s x = y 1 0 ε N λ 0, s 0, e e s m i i= 1 j = 1 λ = 1 i + i e n λ j e s j e j 0 = 0 ( ii1 ) ( ii2 ) ( ii3 ) ( ii4 ) ( ii5 ) where, θ is an inpt efficiency parameter of every ; ε, is a non-archimedean constant Notice first that the objective fnction employs a non-archimedean constant ε as a model constrct to allow both e and s to be positive. Given the bonds of ε in (ii4), the problem is in fact a NLP 2. The meaning of constraint (ii2) is similar to (i2) before. The inpt constraint (ii3), is slightly different from (i3) since all inpts for the investigated scorer are mltiplied with θ and needs some explanation. If θ = 1, e = 0 and s = 0, the scorer is technically efficient in the strict sense of Koopmans 3. Moreover, while θ < 1 implies inefficiency in the sense of Koopmans, the scorer can be efficient thogh, in the weak sense of Debre and Farrell 4, if the proportionate inpts redction (θ) left him on the optimm otpts level, i.e. if and only if his otpts slack s = 0. 2 There are comptational difficlties when this model is formlated as a one-step non-archimedean approach, described by Ali and Seiford (1989). Global optimm is not always fond in NLP. The NLP algorithms in LINGO have provided s with local optimm. 3 Koopmans (1951) defined technical efficiency as: "a possible point in the commodity space is efficient whenever an increase in one of its coordinates (the net otpt of one good) can be achieved only at the cost of a decrease in some other coordinate (the net otpt of another good)" (p. 60). 4 Debre (1951) and Farrell (1957) define inpt-oriented technical efficiency as 1 θ so that the prodction of a given otpt is reached. If θ = 0 the scorer is efficient while if θ > 0 he is inefficient.

8 (iii) CCR, Otpt-Oriented Model We trn now to the otpt orientation model. Otpt-oriented models can be relevant if players are not allowed to adjst their inpts to achieve their otpts, for instance if the player is going to play the entire match. The key qestion in these models is how efficiently the fixed inpts are sed to reach the prodction frontier. In otpt-oriented models one seeks to maximise the proportional increase in otpts. An appropriate formlation of the inpt-oriented problem is the following: max φ + ε φ y = 1 s x e m i s i i= 1 j= 1 λ = 1 + y e 1 0 ε N λ 0, s + s j = n λ 0, e j x e + j e s i 0 = 0 ( iii1) ( iii2 ) ( iii3 ) ( iii4 ) ( iii5 ) where, φ, is the otpt efficiency parameter of every. The interpretation of constraints is similar to the previos models. For instance, all otpts are now mltiplied with the efficiency parameter φ. If φ = 1, e = 0 and s = 0, the investigated scorer is efficient in the Koopmans sense. If φ > 1, i.e. when the otpt vector lies below the prodction frontier, the scorer is inefficient in the sense of Koopmans bt efficient in the weak sense of Debre-Farrell, if and only if e = Variables and Data To measre the efficiency of scorers in an appropriate way, one wold need a nmber of interesting variables and observations, sch as scoring and missing from

9 otside or inside the penalty zone, scoring and missing from fol kicks from different distances, scoring and missing thanks to their ability or to goalkeeper saves etc. Sch match-play statistics in the UEFA CL do not exist. We collected or data from the existing official match statistics fond either in UEFA s site, or in its sponsor Not only interesting variables are lacking, bt some of these statistics might not be appropriate for efficiency stdies of this type, simply becase they can be interpreted differently by varios researchers. As measres of otpt we inclded the following match-play variables: (1) Goals scored The most important performance variable and most freqently sed by jornalists, fans, team managers and sports researchers, is goals scored. Dring the 125 matches played in 2006/07 UEFA CL tornament (96 matches in the grop stage and 29 matches in the final phase), the participated teams scored 309 goals (or 312 if we inclde the three extra goals from the penalty kicks in the second semi-final between Chelsea and Liverpool). There are 72 players 5 who managed to score at least two goals and 25 who scored at least three goals. In order to obtain a meaningfl efficiency of the scorers and to simplify or calclations, players who scored less than two goals are exclded. Ths, althogh some of the exclded scorers with jst one goal might have been efficient, or appropriate efficient candidates will be fond among these 72 scorers with at least two scored goals. Moreover, scored goals reveal only a part of a scorer s ability. In order to evalate correctly the scorers, it wold be desirable to have data on goals missed too. For 5 Some players who played in qalifying matches (mainly in the third and sometimes even in the second qalifying rond) scored some of their goals in these matches. The tornament s top scorer Kaká, scored one of his ten goals in the third qalifying rond between Milan and Red Star. If we inclde the goals scored dring the second and the third qalifying ronds (no team advanced from the first qalifying rond) the total nmber of goals increases to 474.

10 instance, if player X scores three goals and misses for excellent opportnities, while player Y scores two goals bt misses jst one, ceteris paribs, the goals scored measre ranks player X higher. For instance player X might have been more nlcky or his goals were saved by excellent performance of the opposite team s players, or his for missed goal chances might had less scoring probability than Y s one missed chance. Since we have neither data on how many goals these players missed, nor why the players missed the goals, we can t arge whether player Y is better than player X in terms of less is better than case. Conseqently, only scored goals cont in this stdy. (2) Assists Assists is another important otpt measre of a player. Many experts regard assists as half goals. Moreover, since the recorded assists is not a part of the official rles of football game, the criteria for awarded assists might vary. By definition, an assist is an observation and attribted to the player who passed the ball to a team mate, directly and sometimes indirectly, to score a goal. While a direct pass that leads to goal conts as an assist, the assist does not cont if the team mate misses the goal. Usally, as indirect passes which cont as assists are: (i) A shot by a player X that cases a rebond and then a goal scored by player Z; (ii) A rn by a player X in the penalty area that reslts in a penalty kick that player Z scores; on the other hand, if the same player X takes the penalty, is not credited with an assist; (iii) A cross, a free kick or a corner kick from player X that leads to goal by player Z, either throgh volleyed or headed goal; on the other hand, if player Z who receives the pass, cross or rebond mst beat at least one opponent before scoring, player X s assist does not cont (see If UEFA measres consistently the assists in all matches, that measre is a good proxy for the players performance. As was mentioned earlier, when we inclde assists as one of the otpt variables, we improve the performance of midfielders scorers who are expected to have more records than the forwards. Bt, the observed

11 statistics improve the efficiency of the players whose assists led to goals and decrease the efficiency of the players whose assists were not recorded, simply becase the expected scorer missed the goal! (3) Shots on Goal 6 A shot on goal is another important measre to evalate the scorers performance. Goals are obviosly the reslt of shots on goal. Papahristodolo (2007) fond that shots on goal are strongly significant correlated to goals scored (at the 0.01 level). Moreover, the average retrn on goals is 0.25, since three ot of for shots on goal are saved or deflected. The probability that a shot on goal is converted to goal varies significantly with both the location of the shot and with other factors. For instance, Pollard and Reep (1997) estimated that the scoring probability is 24% higher for every yard nearer goal and the scoring probability dobles when a player manages to be over 1 yard from an opponent when shooting the ball. Do shots on goal belong to more-is-better-case or to less-is-better-case? For instance, if one arges that shots on goal shold reflect the inability of players to convert them into goals, that measre can not be regarded as an otpt. That argment is wrong for two reasons. First, nless one obtains information (which is missing) why these shots on goal did not lead to goals scored, one can not treat them as identical to missed goals. The missed goals, which are an obvios indicator of bad performance, shold be measred instead as the reslt of shots wide. Second, fewer shots on goal consistent with more goals scored, i.e. an average retrn mch higher than 0.25, might eqally well be regarded as fortne and not as higher performance. A close investigation of statistics shows clearly that top forwards and scorers, like Shevchenko and Ronaldinho in the 2005/06 UEFA CL tornament and Kaká and Cristiano Ronaldo in the last CL tornament, were also the leaders in shots on goal as well. It is simply ridiclos to ask Kaká why he did not score ten more goals given his twenty-eight shots on goal. 6 Shots on goal is the official name, bt it incldes also the heads on goal.

12 The position of the athor is jst the opposite, that is, players who shot more shots on goal mst have been more active forwards and therefore performed better in shots on goal, even if some of their shots did not trn into goals. (4) Fols sffered All players commit fols. The main prpose with fols is to prohibit the opponent players from playing their game, from gaining grond and shooting from favorable positions in order to score goals. (For details regarding the violations of the rles of football game that lead to fols, the interested reader is referred to _10565.pdf). Players who gain many fols from their opponent, mst be treated as dangeros by the opponent players, i.e. the nmber of fols they gain (or sffer) for their team is a credit to them and conseqently mst improve their performance. Despite the fact that all gained fols are not eqally important, the fols sffered by forwards and sometimes by midfielders are nearer the opponent team s area and conseqently the scoring probability increases. Papahristodolo (2007) fond that home teams gain statistically more fols than away teams. In addition, the longer the time the ball is possessed by team A the higher the nmbers of fols its players sffer from team B. As measres of inpt we inclded the following match-play variables: (1) Playing time in mintes This is the most freqent match-play inpt variable. In fact, the simplest performance of scorers always sed, relates goals scored per mintes played. It is expected that the longer the playing time a player plays, ceteris paribs, the higher his otpt(s), as measred above, will be.

13 This measre treats all matches eqally and every minte played is expected to yield the same retrn, an assmption that is not very likely. For varios reasons, sch as tactics, or becase of injry, players play at most 90 mintes per match (or 120 mintes if extra time is needed). In addition, some players play more matches than others, some players play easier or home matches, while others might be kept on the bench for a particlar match, especially when their team has already qalified for the next rond and some forwards are told to help their midfielders and even their defenders! Obviosly, since it is extremely difficlt to estimate a more correct or fair playing time, we treated all played mintes eqally or non-weighted. (2) Fols committed If fols sffered is a proxy for a good performance (i.e. one of the otpts), fols committed is a proxy for the opponent players good performance (or the own players bad performance). Players who commit fols are somehow forced by their opponents to play nsporting, perhaps becase they are not good enogh to play by the rles of the game. We decided to se that variable as an inpt, becase the higher the nmbers of fols committed, the more advantage the player gains to perform better. Ceteris paribs, clean players who score more goals, have more assists, strike more shots on goal and sffer many fols mst perform better than dirty players. Papahristodolo (2007) fond it pays to teams to commit soft fols, i.e. as long as these fols are not followed by yellow or red cards. (3) Offside Offside is perhaps the most qestionable inpt match-play variable. Often, players are caght for offside when the defenders of the opponent team play high p on the grond, or when the forwards wait for passes or crosses from their fellow-players, far away and isolated withot noticing that they are ot of play. Obviosly, the

14 offside positioned players expect that the referees will make a mistake and let them score goals from marginally offside positions. The freqently offside forward expects also that defenders will make a mistake, especially when they know that this forward is freqently offside, and let him free. In accordance with fols committed above, sch a cheating behavior reveals inferior capabilities. Other things being eqal, we expect that players who do not need to be caght for offside freqently shold perform better than cheating players. Papahristodolo (2007) fond a weak positive correlation between offside and goals scored for the away teams, bt not for the home teams. Needless to say, these 12 otpt/inpt ratios shold be as high as possible. If a player was not good enogh to score many goals per playing time, he might have been among the best in terms of assists per playing time or per fols committed. If we combine all possible otpt(s)/inpt(s) configrations and apply all three models presented earlier, there will be hndreds of efficiency estimates for each player, making it rather difficlt to rank them. To save time, we carried ot the following procedre. We sed all for otpts simltaneosly, in all estimates, with (1) all inpts and (2) only two inpts, by exclding the most qestionable variable, offside. The estimates are based on (a) non-weighted otpts; and (b) weighted otpts, sing the following weights: goals scored = 1, assists = 0.5, shots on goal = 0.3 and fols sffered = 0.2. These weights are arbitrary, bt many wold accept for instance that one assist is half a goal or if forwards and midfielders gain five fols it shold be eqivalent to one goal. None of the inpts are weighted. All estimates are based on both CRS and Variable Retrns to Scale (VRS) models. In VRS we simply add the convexity = 1 constraint λ = 1, (see, Banker, Charnes and Cooper, 1984).

15 Becase the hyper version of LINGO which we sed in or estimates has a limit of 4,000 constraints, the sets-based model that evalates all 72 players simltaneosly, with three inpts and for otpts, srpassed the limit of constraints by 1,329. We rn therefore the estimates in two ronds. In the first rond we sed all 47 players who scored only two goals. Seventeen of them were efficient and were qalified for the second rond, together with the 25 players who scored at least three goals. 4. Efficiency estimates Tables 1 and 2 show the efficiency estimates for all 42 scorers. Notice that in Table 1 (non-weighted otpts) colmns 2 and 3 show the team for which the scorer played in the 2006/07 UEFA CL and how many goals he scored. These two colmns are sbstitted in Table 2 (weighted otpts) by the official position of the player, as its team nominated him in UEFA, and the played time in mintes. Players who are efficient in all models are in bald. Players in italics (Table 2) are midfielders. The reader can observe that ot of 13 midfielders inclded, two of them, the top scorer of the tornament, Kaká and Ryan Giggs, were efficient in all twelve model and data configrations. The Koopmans inefficient players marked with a star (below the θ- and φ-colmns) were Debre-Farrell efficient, in the respective inpt and otpt oriented models, with both non-weighted and weighted data. To save space, all the λ:s for the inefficient scorers are given as λ < 1. These scorers are often compared to two and sometimes to three or for other efficient ones. Their inefficiency in terms of otpts slack and inpts excess, in the VRS 7 modification of model (i), is shown on Table 3. The VRS estimates improve the efficiency of six more scorers, becase the nmber of inefficient scorers decreased to 17 (compared with 23 in Table 1). Kaká, Mpenza and Totti are the most freqently sed scorers who beat the inefficient ones. Kaká was sed 11 times as a convex combination with some 7 In VRS the estimates improve the efficiency of some scorers, bt, to save space, are not reported.

16 Table 1: Efficiency estimates (non-weighted) Player Team Goal 3 inpts, 4 otpts 2 inpts, 4 otpts λ θ φ λ θ φ Kaká Milan Van Nistelrooy Real 6 < < Croch Liverpool 6 < < Morientes Valencia 6 < < * Drogba Chelsea 6 < < Raúl Real 5 < * < * Inzaghi Milan 4 < < * Dica Steaa 4 < * < * Pizarro Bayern 4 < * < * 1.532* Villa Valencia 4 < < Saha Man. United < * Totti Roma Rooney Man. United 4 < < * Allbäck Köbenhavn 3 < < Shevchenko Chelsea 3 < * < * Crz Inter 3 < * < * Gdjohnsen Barcelona 3 < < * C. Ronaldo Man. United Van der Vaart Hambrg García Liverpool 3 < * < * Gerrard Liverpool 3 < * < Castillo Olympiacos 3 < * < * González Porto 3 < * < López Porto 3 < * 1.031* < * Miller Celtic 3 < * < * Ronaldo Real Benzema Lyon Fred Lyon 2 < * < Miccoli Benfica Marica Shakhtar 2 < * < * Mpenza Anderlecht Iniesta Barcelona Nakamra Celtic Qaresma Porto Maloda Lyon 2 < * < Fowler Liverpool Silva Valencia < * Matzalem Shakhtar < * Giggs Man. United Ronaldinho Barcelona < * Faverge Lille < Deco Barcelona

17 Table 2: Efficiency estimates (weighted) Player Position time 3 inpts, 4 otpts 2 inpts, 4 otpts min λ θ φ λ θ φ Kaká Midfield Van Nistelrooy Forward 612 < * < * Croch Forward 727 < < * Morientes Forward 698 < < * Drogba Forward 1106 < * < * Raúl Forward 609 < < * Inzaghi Forward 765 < < * Dica Midfield 532 < * < * Pizarro Forward 621 < * < * Villa Forward 801 < * < * Saha Forward 494 < * < * Totti Forward 800 < * < * Rooney Forward 1076 < < * Allbäck Forward 449 < * < * Shevchenko Forward 832 < * < * Crz Forward 234 < * < * Gdjohnsen Forward 408 < < * C. Ronaldo Forward Van der Vaart Midfield 270 < * < * García Forward 336 < < * Gerrard Midfield 858 < < Castillo Midfield 430 < * < * González Midfield 720 < * < * 3.262* López Forward 595 < * 1.366* < * 1.623* Miller Forward 585 < < * Ronaldo Forward Benzema Forward < * Fred Forward 438 < < * Miccoli Forward Marica Forward 425 < < Mpenza Forward Iniesta Midfield 508 < < * Nakamra Midfield < * Qaresma Midfield 691 < * < * 1.624* Maloda Midfield 630 < < Fowler Forward Silva Forward < * Matzalem Midfield 432 < * < * Giggs Midfield Ronaldinho Forward 720 < * 1.618* < * Faverge Forward < * Deco Midfield 720 < * < * 1.803*

18 Table 3: Seventeen Inefficient players: VRS model (i), non-weighted data Players Otpts slack Inpts excess s 1 s 2 s 3 s 4 e 1 e 2 e 3 Croch Morientes Drogba Raúl Inzaghi Dica Pizarro Villa Rooney Allbäck Shevchenko Gdjohnse Castillo González Miller Fred Marica Note: s 1 = slack in goals scored; s 2 = slack in assists; s 3 = slack in shots on goal; s 4 = slack in fols sffered; e 1 = excess in played time; e 2 = excess in fols committed; e 3 = excess in offside other(s), and both Mpenza and Totti 10 times each. For instance, Peter Croch is a 50% combination of Kaká and Mpenza. Despite the fact Peter Croch played 118 mintes more compared to the average time of Kaká and Mpenza, i.e. 118 = ( )/2, he committed 14 more fols and was caght for offside 2.5 more times, he had 6.5 less shots on goal, 1.5 less assists and gained 3 fols less. Only the 6 goals he scored is exactly what the average of Kaká and Mpenza is. Ths, Peter Croch is inefficient. The estimates in Tables 1 and 2 are rather consistent. All six pair inpt efficiency parameter θ:s and for ot of six otpt efficiency parameter φ:s are strongly (at the 0.01 level) correlated with each other. Notice also that the nmber of efficient scorers and their efficiency decreases when we se otpt weights (compare the parameters in Table 2 with those in Table 1) and when we exclde offside from the inpts.

19 Andrés Iniesta is the player whose efficiency deteriorated dramatically with the se of otpt weights and especially with two inpts. On the other hand, the Koopmans strict efficiency differs from the weaker Debre- Farrell one. First of all, smaller (larger) deviations from the θ- or φ-optimal vales do not necessarily indicate weaker (larger) inefficiencies. For instance, despite the fact that Maloda s θ = and Pizarro s θ = (Table 1), Pizarro is Debre-Farrell efficient, bt not Maloda. Also, while Ronaldinho who had a mch higher φ-vale than Van Nistelrooy (Table 3), he was Debre-Farrell efficient, bt not van Nistelrooy. The following six weakly inefficient scorers, Dica, Pizarro, Saha, Totti, Crz and Qaresma, were always Debre-Farrell efficient in all inpt oriented and data configrations models, becase all their s = 0. Notice also that Dica, had all s = 0 in the VRS modification of model (i), as well, as is shown in Table 3. The problem with these six players is their inpt excess (almost all of them committed more fols or were caght more often for offside). On the other hand, most of the remaining inefficient scorers had either a few assists (mainly in the non-weighted data) and/or a few fols sffered (in the weighted data). Similarly, the following for weakly inefficient scorers, López, Benzema, Ronaldinho and Deco were always Debre-Farrell efficient in all otpt oriented and data configrations models, becase all their e = 0. The problem with these for players is their otpt slack (mainly a few assists). The majority of the remaining inefficient scorers had committed many fols (in both non-weighted and weighted data). None was inefficient becase he played too mch and very few were inefficient becase they were caght for many offside. The inpt- and otpt-oriented models are therefore consistent. If scorers are both inpt- and otpt-oriented efficient, they are strictly (Koopmans) efficient. Scorers

20 who are efficient, either in inpt- or otpt-oriented models, are weakly (Debre- Farrell) efficient. The following seven players were efficient in all three models and all data configrations: Ricardo Kaká, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldo 8, Fabrizio Miccoli, Mbo Mpenza, Robbie Fowler and Ryan Giggs. The last five scored only two goals, bt compared to the limited time they played (especially Mpenza and Ronaldo), or compared to the nmber of assists they delivered (with Ryan Giggs ranked first with 7 and Cristiano Ronaldo second with 5 assists), they managed to reach the frontier. The reader will observe that Ronaldinho, the FIFA World Player of the year in 2004/05 and the winner of the Ballon D Or in 2005/06 and especially Andriy Shevchenko 9, the winner of the Ball D Or in 2004/05, were not efficient. Unless additional criteria are added, or nless scored goals are weighted depending on the significance of the match, on the difficlty of the opponents, on whether that goal was decisive or not, on which stage of the tornament the goal was scored etc, all these seven scorers are eqally efficient. If the winner of the Ball D Or in 2006/07 will be selected among the UEFA CL scorers who scored many goals, Kaká and Cristiano Ronaldo shold be the hottest players to receive that prize. Kaká received on Agst 30, 2007 the prestigios UEFA clb Footballer of the year prize ( l). According to UEFA ( Kaká is a tireless worker who is blessed with creativity, good passing skills and a fine shot, while Cristiano Ronaldo is another player with pace, power and a box of tricks to strike fear into the most talented defenders. 8 Real did not consider Ronaldo good enogh and sold him to Milan in Janary According to UEFA reglations, becase he was cp-tied with his team Real, he cold not play for Milan dring the same season. 9 Similar estimates, based on the 2005/06 UEFA CL grop stage statistics (six matches only), fond that both Ronaldinho and Schevchenko (as well as Kaká, Crz and Deco among the inclded scorers in Tables 1 and 2), were efficient, Papahristodolo (2006).

21 Conclsions Ranking football players is a very difficlt task. Everyone who has an opinion weights arbitrarily a nmber of varios performance parameters. Some of the parameters are neither directly observed and measred, nor compared. Even if yo observe a player who plays creatively, or rns withot the ball in order to open spaces, these performances cannot be measred in an objective manner. In addition, the measred parameters, sch as goals scored or assists, do not reveal everything, simply becase there are easier and togher matches and opponents. Everyone shold agree that if player X scores the 3rd goal in a 3-0 victory in a grop and nondecisive match, while player Y scores the decisive goal in a qarter-final or a semifinal, these goals are not eqal. What people do not agree thogh is how mch higher the performance of scorer Y is. The ranking of scorers shold therefore reflect the different weights one sets in these goals. A similar argment applies to all performance measres one might se in his own estimates. In this simple paper, no weights were sed within the same variable. None of the goals scored, of assists, of shots on goal and of fols sffered is worse or better than the other. All are eqally good. The only weights applied are the different vales assigned to the for performances above. Assists are valed as half goals, shots on goal as one third of a goal and fols sffered as one fifth of a goal. These weights are obviosly sbjective, bt hopeflly, close to what many people wold accept. If the UEFA official match play statistics are to be taken seriosly and measre what they intend to measre, or three DEA models rank the following seven scorers on top: Kaká, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldo, Miccoli, Mpenza, Fowler and Giggs. I believe that very few people, who followed the tornament last year, wold reject the top performance of the first two scorers in the list.

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