Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
It's a calculation of my own devising, that takes into account things like wage budget, squad values and success of players transferring to higher leagues, averaged over a few seasons.
I've then normalised the scores and made the premier league, which came out as the strongest on average, equal to 100 and scored the others in relation to that.
Ok, but all of this is arbitrary. A home grown player costs more than a foreign player. Premier league clubs offer the higher wages because they are richer. It doesn't consider performance in European competition (UEFA rank the French League 5th).