The France Football Ballon D'Or 2016

[El Flaco]

The ranking so far (I'll update the list)...

Each journalist picks 3 players : 1st gets 5pts, 2nd gets 3pts and 3rd 1pt.

11 players didn't get any points.

17th Toni Kroos, Luka Modric, Dimitri Payet 1 point

16th Robert Lewandowski 3 points

14th Paul Pogba, Arturo Vidal 4 points

13th Zlatan Ibrahimovic 5 points

12th Rui Patricio 6 points

11th Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 7 points

9th Gianluigi Buffon Pepe 8 points

8th Jamie Vardy

7th Riyad Mahrez

6th Gareth Bale

 

[Ahmedd]

How in the world is Ibra 13th and Modric 17th ? Pogba 14th ??? Wtf srly..

 

[El Flaco]

Vardy > Lewandowski

 

[Devils]

Pogba ahead of Modric and Kroos is just brilliant.

 

[Total-Football]

so Pepe > Modric hmm .. roflmao

 

[Devils]

They just skipped 5,4,3,2 and announcement Ronaldo as the winner.

lmao

 

[barcafan161]

Vardy > Lewandowski

it's fair given the season vardy had

 

[El Flaco]

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Ranking of top 5:

1st place: Cristiano

2nd place: Griezmann

3rd place: Messi

4th place: Suarez

5th place: Neymar.

 

[GetIn]

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Ranking of top 5:

1st place: Cristiano

2nd place: Greizmann

3rd place: Messi

4th place: Suarez

5th place: Neymar.

As if FIFA hasn't ruined the awards reputability with that farce of a voting extension in 2013, Neymar at 5 after his atrocious 2016 just proves that no one on the voting panel watches any matches and marketing trumps all else. Ronaldo wins and Neymar at number 5 gimme a break.

 

[serghei]

Good. Hope this fires up MSN. Something happened in 2016. Their level dropped a bit.

 

[barcafan161]

shocking how messi didn't get 2nd at least

 

[Altomonte]

Big handicap for Barça to have South American players that don' t participate in European Championships (played in France 2016). In addition, players are tired and jet lagged when they return from international breaks. Barça lost the Clasico this spring because of that. Probably lost CL too because of South American NT matches.
Nobody seems to care about Copa America ...

 

[spark]

Even the Marca awards are more prestigious now as they dont get announced on twitter

 

[ThwiX]

shocking how messi didn't get 2nd at least

He did.

 

[Altomonte]

Do we have statistics comparing the top players? Is it an Award for 2016 or for 2015/16? I would like see the following numbers per top 5 player:
- Matches played (club+NT)
- Whoscored.com rating average
- Goals scored
- Assists

Can we get those numbers?

Then, because it is 'France Football', everything related to the European Championship has to be weighted much higher. That's the only way for Griezmann to beat Messi and Suarez.