Portsmouth best performers in Championship this season - according to data analysts

And now a table has been arrived at which they believe shows the best performing players in John Mousinho’s squad this term.

Data website, Opta Analyst, has developed a quantitative player metric for football which measures a player’s contribution to games.

Opta Points assigns a value for contributions to games, differentiating only between those goal and playing on the pitch.

Actions such as passes, goals and tackles add to their total while negative actions such as conceding goals and picking up cards will reduce their score.

Opta points has a focus on individuals rather than the team, meaning players will not boost their score by winning games.

The players are then ranked on their returns - which is what we’ve now placed in reverse order. Scores can be totalled cumulatively over a session, but in this instance we’ve taken their average scores per game.