u/New_Statement9990 — reddlx

With all the recent debate about the Ligue 1 Player of the Season finalists especially around Dembélé given his low minutes I wanted to look at it from a data perspective. I built a model to measure overall player impact then adjusted it by minutes played to estimate total season contribution. The results are pretty interesting Dembélé comes out as the most dominant player in the league on a per minute basis with an impact of 2.674 despite only 930 minutes which is honestly insane but when you factor in availability and consistency over the whole season Vitinha stands out with the highest total impact of 324.9.

Ousmane Dembélé Impact: 2.674 Season Impact: 276.3
Vitinha Impact: 1.456 Season Impact: 324.9
Lee Kang-In Impact: 1.349 Season Impact: 201.9
Nuno Mendes Impact: 1.236 Season Impact: 171.8
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia Impact: 1.203 Season Impact: 177.0
Mason Greenwood Impact: 1.145 Season Impact: 280.1
Achraf Hakimi Impact: 1.136 Season Impact: 173.4
Ilan Kebbal 2096 min Impact: 1.057 Season Impact: 246.3
Désiré Doué Impact: 1.006 Season Impact: 129.0
Florian Thauvin Impact: 0.946 Season Impact: 239.9

Obviously the season isn’t over yet but it’s hard to see these scores shift drastically at this point.