Comparisonator football data comparison platform client, Rangers FC transferred Rıdvan Yılmaz from Besiktas.
Comparisonator team analysed Turkish International Left Back Ridvan Yilmaz and took his stats to Scottish Premier League to compare with all left backs to identify how he would fit within the SPFL to understand “How RIDVAN YILMAZ would look in Scottish Premiership with his performance in Besiktas last season?”
To answer this question, let’s have a look at the #Comparisonator Virtual Transfer feature.


VIRTUAL TRANSFER
Comparisonator data team Virtually Transferred Rıdvan Yılmaz’s Besiktas performance in offensive & diffensive & passing parameters to Scotland Premiership this season and compared to other Left Backs in Premiership:
🥇Ranking 1st Compared to LBs in SPFL – 0.94 Key Passes per 90 min
🥈Ranking 2nd Compared to LBs in SPFL – 6.88 Attacking Actions per 90 min
🥉Ranking 3rd Compared to LBs in SPFL – 58.91 Comparisonator Defensive Index points 90 min
🥉Ranking 3rd Compared to LBs in SPFL – 2.97 Dribbles per 90 min
🥉Ranking 3rd Compared to LBs in SPFL – 2.55 Touches in the Box per 90 min
4️⃣ Ranking 4th Compared to LBs in SPFL – 5.94 Ball Recoveries per 90 min
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🎯 WHAT IS VIRTUAL TRANSFER?
Comparisonator Virtual Transfer feature transfers player’s entire data to another league to view him in a ranking table with all other players in the same position.
This feature helps to observe players’ current league performance data to another league, visualise their parameter rankings head to head within that particular country’s league against players in the same position
Platform users can visualise the player ranking in the selected target league, as he played in that particular league with his current performance.
If a Centre Forward made 4.13 ‘Shots’ per 90 minutes in Italian Serie A, how he would rank in ‘Premier League’, comparing his results with other Centre Forwards in the target league.
SIMILARITY COMPARISON
Rıdvan Yılmaz, similar players in England & Scotland by utilizing Comparisonator’s Similarity Comparison feature are listed below. Yılmaz is 85% similar to Aaron Cresswell from West Ham Utd.


WHAT IS SIMILARITY COMPARISON?
The most important action is to define what type of player one would like to find. That’s what Comparisonator platform made extremely easy. All one needs to do is to click on similarity comparison module, and relax back for Comparisonator to find a special listings sorted from the most similar player in percentage.
Machine learning back end of the platform has ever living mechanism to recognise player patterns and serves players according to similarities exists. Then users can apply different attributes of parameters to go deeper in investigations.
Similar players can be found in any competition, any position. Or players can be found with their passports countries. Sorting can be manipulated against players’ level of similarity percentage, age, height, contractual dates, minutes; or according to artificial index levels such as offensive-defensive-passing-duels
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