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2006 World Cup Final.
Italy 1 - 1 .
Italy wins in penalties 5-3 and raises the World Cup.
But what happened? 1-1 tells you nothing of the match. Who dominated? Did an early goal set the tone? Was there a late goal at the death? Who owned the match? Who had the best scoring opportunities? Was it helter-skelter or a grind-it out defensive battle?
And what about the players? Whose form was top-class? Who played poorly? How did your favorite player perform?
These previously unanswered questions and more can now be answered. PowerStats tells the story in one simple, engaging, easy to read chart, called a Power Chart. The Power Chart shows you each team's momentum throughout the match.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is PowerStats?
PowerStats is the simple compilation of 20 different statistical categories (or actions) that have a plus or minus rating of 1, depending on whether the action has a positive or negative impact on the game. PowerStats was created to provide football aficionados with fan-friendly, vital statistics that enhance the match-day experience. It takes the match to the next level by synthesizing on-field action into information that is easy to understand, engaging, compelling and meaningful.
How does PowerStats work?
The 20 statistics are combined in several ways to calculate an Attacking, Defending, Striker, Playmaker, Defender, and Mistakes rating for each player. It tracks and monitors the on-field performance for both teams and their individual players. It also shows each team’s momentum throughout the match, and paints a clearer picture of what actually happened on the pitch, beyond what you see in a box score or match report.
Why it works?
The PowerStats system has been rigorously tested over 15 years. The PowerStats crew is thoroughly trained on how to score a match, and they leave no stone unturned. Every on-field action is vital and important to the scoring.
How are the PowerStats taken?
PowerStats are compiled by a statistical crew of two to five individuals depending on the publishing requirements. There is always a “caller” responsible for identifying the specific statistic. There is always a “scribe” recording the statistic. Each statistical occurrence is entered into a data base from which the results are published. Up to three more crew members may be utilized to assist in reporting the statistics on a live, real-time basis.
The statistics can be compiled live at the match site, from a television feed, or from a match recording. The PowerStats crew has extensive experience in all of these avenues.
Why PowerStats?
PowerStats was created as a means to provide a solution to the frustration of a lack of information about the match, the teams, and the individual players. It provides more detailed, vital statistics about a match than just the box score.
Who Are We?
The PowerStats crew is comprised of college students at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, CA. All are soccer afficianados. They have transformed a residence hall recreation room into a online soccer studio. They work hard to provide a fan-friendly, engaging, interesting, meaningful new way to experience soccer to the world.
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The seeds of the Soccer PowerStats™ statistical system were planted in Carl Hammond in the early 1970s while watching two soccer television programs: Star Soccer (English First Division) and Soccer Made in Germany. These programs fed an inherent interest Carl has for international affairs.
Carl, a self-proclaimed sports addict, grew up on a steady diet of media-driven statistics that enriched his enjoyment of baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. The absence of statistics in soccer went unnoticed by Carl because he was enchanted by the uninterrupted flow of soccer that pulled and pushed his emotions throughout the match.
The spell of soccer on Carl was cast during the 1986 World Cup. Watching many games over and over, he developed a strong interest in certain teams and players.
As Carl devoted his energies into any soccer endeavor that came along, an underlying problem surfaced. There was no way to follow international teams and players in those pre-internet times.
The success of Major League Soccer (MLS) in the United Stats was going to depend on engaging media coverage to capture the millions of fans spawned by the 1994 World Cup. MLS needed fan-friendly statistics.
This need led Carl to codify a soccer statistical system that he had been formulating. It was presented to MLS, who adopted two of these statistics not previously reported in soccer--shots on goal and fouls suffered. The current version includes seven statistics not widely reported anywhere: chances to shoot, reaching the penalty area, giving the ball away, taking the ball away, blocking a shot, clearing the penalty area, and stopping the opposing team from reaching the penalty area.
Over the ensuing 15 years, the Soccer PowerStats™ statistical system was applied to more than 1,000 matches, both youth and professional. The system has been poked, prodded, and refined, always with the goal of providing the soccer fan with meaningful and engaging information.
The results of the Soccer PowerStats™ statistical system have been published in newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet. The powerstatsonline.com web site of the 2006 World Cup generated over one million hits.
Quick. Name the best football player in the world in 2006.
Christiano Ronaldo? Nope. His glory came a year later in 2007.
Ronaldinho? Heck Nho! You're one year early. He won the honor in 2005.
It must have been Zidane, what with his majestic pre-head butt heroics for in the 2006 World Cup, right? Though Zizou won the Golden Boot, that's still wrong.
If you're mind automatically defaults to the best playmakers and goal scorers around the globe, I don't blame you. The real answer is Italian center back Fabio Cannavaro, who after leading The Azzurri to their fourth World Cup, was the first ever defender to win FIFA World Player of the Year, and the first defender since Franz Beckenbauer in 1972 to win the European Footballer of the Year award.
If a player isn't putting balls in nets, points on scoreboards and supporters in seats, it's often hard to measure his value to a team. But as Cannavaro raised the World Cup high above his head, it was clear as crystal what the Italy skipper meant to his side. Despite scoring zero goals, having zero assists, and only attempting four shots on goal for the entire tournament, he was hands down the best player on the pitch.
And the stats bear it out. The PowerStats, that is.
PowerStats is the simple compilation of 20 different statistical categories (or actions) that have a plus or minus rating of 1, depending on whether the action has a positive or negative impact on the game. The 20 statistics are combined in several ways to calculate at Attacking, Defending, Striker, Playmaker, Defender, and Mistakes rating.
For the World Cup Final, thanks to his resolute, heroic defending, Cannavaro stopped the French from entering the penalty box eight times, took the ball away five times, cleared the ball from the area five times, blocked the ball in the box three times, and won the ball three times.
Basically, the scrappy defender made life miserable for Henry, Malouda, Zidane and the rest of Les Bleus. Cannavaro rated out as the match's best player, and not surprisingly, the tournament's top player.
The PowerStats Crew works diligently to provide football aficionados with fan-friendly, vital statistics that enhance the match-day experience. They are compelling and meaningful.
After all, PowerStats had Cannavaro as the world's best player six months before FIFA.
A new way to experience "the beautiful game" is here, and it's called PowerStats.
Please let us know if you would like to be active in this evolving process of shaping the fan-friendly soccer statistics of the future. Please e-mail your questions and comments to info@powerstatsonline.com.