To warm up for the World Cup, we start a series of historical ratings. This is inspired by Spielverlagerung's excellent live analysis of the 1954 World Cup final between Hungary and Germany. We'd love to post the stats of that game, too, but unfortunately we started out database 1965, so we can't produce the numbers without a few days of extra work. Hence we chose another match that is a comparable nice memory in German football history.

Goalimpact is designed to be comparable across time, so the scale should be the same as today's. However, we do not have data on the Dutch first division from that time and hence the Goalimpacts of the Dutch players are taken from few international games only and hence should be taken with a grain of salt. All values are from the first of the month before the match took place.

Netherlands

Player	Goalimpact	Peak GI	Age	Team	No. Games	No. Minutes
Jan Jongbloed	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.		0	0
Ruud Krol	117.2	119.9	25.2		31	2851
Wim Rijsbergen	115.1	128.8	22.3		16	1408
Wim Suurbier	112.2	118.0	29.3	Niederlande	48	4510
Arie Haan	117.0	118.5	25.5		25	2272
Wim van Hanegem	120.0	128.6	30.3	Niederlande	32	2862
Wim Jansen	122.0	125.9	27.6	Niederlande	35	3317
Johan Neeskens	113.3	125.6	22.8	Niederlande	31	2839
Johan Cruyff	125.6	128.4	27.1	Niederlande	71	6493
Rob Rensenbrink	102.3	104.6	26.9		14	1286
Johnny Rep	111.8	124.9	22.5		16	1189
Bench
Theo de Jong	117.1	119.1	26.8		16	1473
René van de Kerkhof	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.		0	0

Germany

Player	Goalimpact	Peak GI	Age	Team	No. Games	No. Minutes
Sepp Maier	149.2	149.2	30.3	Deutschland	403	37670
Berti Vogts	144.9	148.4	27.4	Deutschland	347	32502
Georg Schwarzenbeck	143.3	143.7	26.2	Deutschland	318	29586
Franz Beckenbauer	158.9	164.3	28.8	Deutschland	405	37757
Rainer Bonhof	119.8	134.4	22.2		146	12843
Paul Breitner	128.2	140.3	22.8	Deutschland	156	13586
Wolfgang Overath	134.0	145.9	30.7	Deutschland	407	37587
Uli Hoeneß	128.2	141.8	22.4	Deutschland	190	16643
Bernd Hölzenbein	110.1	115.2	28.3		222	19670
Jürgen Grabowski	111.2	117.3	29.9	Deutschland	278	25407
Gerd Müller	157.2	162.5	28.6	Deutschland	390	36403
Bench

Conclusions

• Germany's defense was fantastic
• Beckenbauer was the best German player and hence has earned his title "Der Kasiser".
• Gerd Müller was freaking awesome
• Paul Breitner's and Uli Hoeneß's talent was visible early on
• Cruyff was the best Dutch player, but the overall squad was not as good as we'd expect. However, we repeat that Goalimpact is not looking at the full picture here, but only at the international games.

Wishes for the next historical game to be published are welcome in the comments. The 1966 final anyone?