Football World Draft (20 years)

I've found a website which has ranked the top 100 players of all time by position, so, as a counterpoint to the voting thread, I'll have a look through and put that site's rankings for each of our selected players into a spreadsheet.

Lowest score has the "best" team. If your player isn't in the top 100, I'll be kind and rank them at 101st.

After running through the GKs and LBs, Eds is massively in the lead with only 12 points and Benny running last with 202.

EDIT: Anyone younger than 28 as at 2009 (when the lists I'm using were compiled) is specifically excluded from the lists, so any active player under 28 (I don't think there'll be many) will be assessed as ranked 50.

 

And the results - having added everything up:

Cevno 213
Baxter 229
Heef 335
Eds 344
Weeman 382
Mouse 406
KATA 419
Cabinet 512
Prez 554
Himann 563
Lukic 585
Alex 600
Benny 603
Jager 641
BOTR 727
Mariner 811

Of the players that are totally unrated, Prez had 2, Lukic 1, Jager 2, BOTR 1, Alex 2, Mariner 4, Mouse 1, Benny 1, Cabinet 1, Himann 1

Cevno and Baxter both a long way ahead of the rest.

However, Baxter has two players that are too young to be rated (Alonso, Iniesta) so they've both been stuck in at 50. All of Cevno's players are rated. His worst is Rio Ferdinand (42)

 

Mouse's team is a bit odd as well with 4 full backs (2 of whom can play CB, but were rated as full backs not CBs). So, I doubled Thuram's rating of 5th best full back and Maldini's rating as best full back to assess them as centre backs. Probably a little bit favourable, but I can certainly imagine that Thuram & Maldini could be top 10 as centre backs.

 

Yeah - Matthaus would clearly be top 5 sweeper anyway, so a ranking of 4 isn't a huge problem.

And yeah, some of the rankings are a bit off, but it's still a more objective way of ranking the teams than voting when half the voters never saw half the players.