Adam Idah F. Celtic b.2001

**John83** · 04/08/2025, 2:09 PM

Originally Posted by ifk101

Questionable. He's rated 6.1 now. Scales is now 8.5. Didn't think Idah was great yesterday, and didn't think there was anything exceptional in the performance of Scales. Would be nice to know exactly how these ratings are (actually) calculated ...

The scores are determined by algorithms. The inputs to the algorithms are generated by humans essentially annotating games, recording passes, shots, runs, etc. along with outcomes. (Which is, it must be said, a blooming awful job.) There's some potential for bias, but much less than fan ratings. I think I recall some of this described in Kuper's book Soccernomics.

**Razors left peg** · 04/08/2025, 3:23 PM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

There's a strong case for the most delusional support base in world football.

As a Celtic fan myself I have to agree that there is a fair bit of truth to that at times

**pineapple stu** · 04/08/2025, 5:06 PM

It's a very strange league - I can kind of understand how that'd arise. The big games are the ones where you're testing yourself against Barca or Bayern. But those games end in absolute hammerings as often as not, so it's clearly not their level, but I can understand how you'd look up to find your level rather than think it's St Mirren or Ross County (which equally isn't their level)