West Ham’s Player of the season so far is claimed to be new boy James Ward Prowse with a rating of 7.69 awarded by SofaScore – a sports data-based company.
According to the Mail – where the results across the Premier League have been reported – the company generate the ratings by using a ‘sophisticated algorithm’ that rates each player’s performance out of 10 each game.
In awarding the Hammers summer signing his high mark the claim that the dead-ball specialist has thrived at West Ham can hardly be disputed.
He has – say SofaScore – many targets to target for his exceptional set-pieces in the likes of Nayef Agured, Kurt Zouma and Tomas Soucek, all of whom are l over 6 ft 2.
The report points out of course that he made an enormous impact from the start and with two assists on his debut, a win against Chelsea, and has gone on to deliver one more assist and two goals.