Building the summer list: Attacking mids

The CIES Football Observatory, an international sports research center, has presented a ranking of the world's 100 best attacking players.

Building the summer list: Attacking mids

Midfield is such a big category, but even us stat nerds sometimes do a pretty poor job of divvying it up. My site of reference, FBRef, dumps all midfielders into one category. That can really suck when it comes to sorting data and trying to do things like ranking players and determining just how much of a standout someone is (or isn’t). But even those of us who try to go another step farther don’t always get it fully right. Coming into this writ…