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Sir Alupp Heynrguson
... It's like I don't even need to bother writing things in original posts, because people seem to have a remarkable tendency of ignoring them...
Like what would that wall of text have been for if not qualifying the statistics, explaining, and interpreting them?
Except that I've repeatedly said, both here and in other threads, that two statistics isn't enough to prove anything (which is why I provided more than two statistics in my post) and why one needs to, like you said, look at the role of the player in the side and what they are asked to do.
Odd that the club hasn't kicked Pique out yet. This is a "pet peeve" I have in general, people speaking as if they are representatives of the club and that they are the ones who set the criteria ("not Barca standard" oh that is the absolute worst). Clearly the club doesn't "demand" this, or has a different definition of it than you seem to, or else all these "average" players would be long gone. And somehow, I'll trust the opinion of paid professionals over random fans on the internet... (sorry if that was overly aggressive, couldn't think of a better way to word it)
Who is, then?
I do think the way they actually calculate the overall rating is weird, which is why I never pay much attention to their man of the match things and whatnot, just use them as a database for numbers. Like the Observer was saying, their algorithm could very well be arbitrary and meaningless, which is why I disregard their ratings.
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