You may never have noticed, but we provide the same notoriously harsh player ratings that we have for the top tiers of European football across the full English Football League!
This week, we’ve been looking through the best average ratings in each division to put together our team of the season, if the 2019/20 campaign were to stop here.
First up, here’s our team for the EFL Championship. And perhaps controversially, there’s no place for the league’s top scorer – Fulham’s Aleksandar Mitrović. Did we mention these ratings were harsh!?
Collated from the 100s of live statistics that come in to the app on matchday, we then average out the rating awarded to an individual for each game. The team here is therefore based on the best average for a player in each position. Using that method, Brentford’s Ollie Watkins actually rates higher than Mitrović despite scoring less.
The best players in the Championship, according to our ratings are QPR’s Eberechi Eze, and West Bromwich Albion’s Matheus Pereira – with just one decimal point separating them, 7.36 to 7.35!
The Leeds United duo of Pablo Hernández (7.34), and Luke Ayling (7.30) come next – but with Hernández’s position already taken, only Ayling makes our side at right-back.
There are less surprises to be found in our team for League One. Here, five out of the top six sides in the table feature, as it stands – with Peterborough’s Ivan Toney (7.57), the division’s top marksman also coming out with the highest average.
Just behind him, is Coventry City’s Liam Walsh with an rating of 7.47. We still think his goal in November’s game against Rochdale is one of the most underrated goals of the season.
Only Oxford United, 3rd in the table plus 4th placed Portsmouth earn more than one place in our team of the season so far – taking two spots each.
In League Two, the current leaders Crewe Alexandra have produced three of our best performers in the division. Winger Charlie Kirk, with 7 goals and a staggering 14 assists comes out with the league’s best average of 7.35 with teammate, Harry Pickering just behind him on 7.30. Fellow full-back, Perry Ng is the third Alex player to make our team.
Elsewhere, Swindon Town – who only trail Crewe on goal difference in the table provide the rest of our frontline. Irishman, Eoin Doyle who made his loan move from Bradford City to Swindon’s Country Ground permanent in January has scored 25 times in 34 league matches this season.
And a mention for Crawley Town’s Glenn Morris who comes out of this analysis as the best rated goalkeeper anywhere in the EFL this season. His 10 clean sheets and 2 penalty saves earn him a highly respectable 6.94.
Doyle did score a hattrick against him back in October though. ?
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