Self-Rater

Tom has put in some effort to argue that each participant should be “classed” according to their skills in order to aid in the player selection method of determining line ups.

While Tom ponders whether to do the classification himself, here’s an alternative – we each rate ourselves.

Rating players is in any event highly subjective.  Is Christiano Ronaldo the world’s greatest player, or just an over-hyped two-trick diving show pony?

So why not just leave each individual to rate himself?

To aid in the process, let us identify particular footballing abilities, each to be rated between 0 (completely useless) and 10 (world’s greatest).   Not surprisingly, the idea of rating specific skills was first raised by Tom.

The footballing abilities identified and described in the post on that subject on 16 November 2008, and in subsequent posts relating to the subject, were as follows:

• First touch.
• Player awareness & positional sense.
• Passing.
• Dribbling.
• Shooting.
• Tackling and closing down.
• Communication.
• Speed.
• Stamina and durability.
• Physical presence or strength.
• Tactical awareness.
• Goalkeeping.

Rate yourself on each of the above abilities as a comment below.

Like everything else on FIOFAFI, this is entirely voluntary.  “Volunteering” on behalf of others may be an excellent skill possessed by a select few, particularly useful in the workplace and at parties, but it is not a footballing ability, nor is it in keeping with FIOFAFI’s voluntary nature.

If you do rate yourself, try to be honest, or as honest as you can be in the circumstances.  As always, this is just for fun.

Another alternative is to use a rating site.  The FIOFAFI version of “Hot Or Not”?