I just learned about a new site, or rather a family of sites, called Greatest Player Ever along with one of its brethren, Greatest Arsenal Player. In short, it’s a very cool new web app that allows you to vote on a series of player pairs in a head to head battle. You’re presented with two players, some vital statistics on each of the players, and then you can cast a vote for one of the two players, or vote for a draw.The pairs can be two players from anytime in the teams history, right up to the current side. Care to tell who you think is better between David Seaman and Andrey Arshavin? Not so easy… and therein lies the interesting bit for me. They don’t always pair up players of the same position, or the same era, so you really have to think about the player and their value as an overall player before you cast your vote. Cool stuff.

Each vote you cast adds to their stats database, which continually grows. The more people who vote, the more accurate the database becomes. You can then peruse the stats in the form of Top lists like Top 50 Players, Top 10 Goalkeepers, Top 10 Defenders, Top 10 Midfielders and Top 10 Forwards.  The Top 50 players list for Arsenal already has most of the names you’d expect to see at the top, but I’m very curious to see how the list changes over time with more and more votes. It’s got to be more accurate than that Top 50 list that Arsenal.com put out over the summer. Plus all of this data is being collected for the other teams, as well. So, we’ll be able to see similar lists for the entire Premiership. Now that’s going to cause some contention.

I’ve been playing with it quite a bit recently, and it’s fairly addicting. You get into that mode where you just want to see the next pair of players you’ll be shown. There’s also some mention of prizes to be given away, which is quite cool, but I honestly haven’t looked into that just yet. I’m too busy voting! GreatestPlayerEver.com will tell you all you need to know, and you can select from any Premiership team from there, but for those Gooners like me who just want to vote for the Arsenal players, you can go directly to GreatestArsenalPlayer.com and start voting.