Points Performance Index

SoccerSTATS.com - updated on: 28 Mar 2025

Objective

The Points Performance Index table aims at contrasting some basic team performance indicators such as Points and Points Per Game, by factoring-in how presumably easy or difficult each team's played matches might have been.

The resulting Points Performance Index value is calculated for each team, based both on Points per Game and on an evaluation of the team's played opponents Points Per Game.

You may also want to read more contextual information regarding that table on the following page: Evaluating team performance

Description

The table lists team ranked by points and shows, for each team:

• Games played
• Points
• Points Per Game
• Opponents Points Per Game
• Points Performance Index

Below is a view of some of the columns of the Relative Performance table:

Calculations

Points Per Game (PPG)

The value is calculated based on the number of points for each team, divided by the number of matches played by the team.

Opponents Points Per Game

The Opponents PPG value is calculated based on the combined value of Away Points Per Game of opponents played at home and Home PPG of opponents played away. The details of each opponent PPG value can be displayed by hovering the mouse cursor over any Opponents PPG value on the table.

Points Performance Index

That value is calculated by multiplying the team's PPG value with the played opponents' PPG value.

Such Points Performance Index (PPI) is aimed at giving a sense of a team's performance in terms of results, by taking into account how "easy" or how "difficult" the points picked up by the team might have been. To estimate such a "difficulty level", the PPI uses the Points Per Game of the opponents already played by the team.

However a higher PPI will not necessarily mean a superior strength. It only includes an estimation of the oppositions' strength in the equation, instead of focusing only on total points or Points per Game.

Example

You can view an example on the Points Performance Index page for the Bundesliga.

Avoiding pitfalls

The Points Performance Index value calculation gives as much importance to the team PPG as it does to the Opponents PPG. The idea is to apply some sort of "weight" to a team's PPG, in order to factor-in the level of opposition the team's points have been picked up against.

However in the early stages of the season, the PPG values can be much higher or much lower than what they become as the season progresses. This may cause such a calculation, based on PPG averages, to use values that can be more extreme at the begining of the season. The more matches have been played in the season, the more meaningful the PPG values will become.

Related statistics

In addition to the PPI, another statistics table making use of opponents PPG is the Run-in analysis table, which is also discussed in Evaluating matches difficulty-level.