Every American Soccer Player, Ranked, Again
The second volume of the UNITED STATES MEN’S NATIONAL TEAM PLAYER PERFORMANCE INDEX is out. The point of this, as you all no doubt understand, was to come up with a simple way to assess the performance of every professional American soccer player by looking at how much they play and how good their teams are. All models are wrong, but some are useful, and etc:
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