Top-50 Football Players - October 2013 edition

My monthly database update is done. All values now include all games until October 1st 2013. This time I also made a few minor changes to the algorithm itself. I don't want to go into details, but it results in the top players all losing a few points of Goalimpact. The players in the top 50 all lose something between 2 and 8 points. Therefore I do not report the change in values compared to last month this time. The order was effected a bit, but as you can see it more or less stayed equal.

Rank	Player	Goalimpact	Team	Nationality	Previous Rank
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	188,6	Real Madrid	Portugal	1
2	Lionel Messi	184,5	FC Barcelona	Argentinien	2
3	Philipp Lahm	179,9	Bayern München	Deutschland	3
4	Bastian Schweinsteiger	178,7	Bayern München	Deutschland	4
5	Cesc Fabregas	172,0	FC Barcelona	Spanien	5
6	Busquets	167,4	FC Barcelona	Spanien	6
7	Mesut Özil	167,1	Arsenal FC	Deutschland	8
8	Thomas Müller	166,5	Bayern München	Deutschland	9
9	Manuel Neuer	164,9	Bayern München	Deutschland	11
10	Iniesta	164,5	FC Barcelona	Spanien	7
11	Javier Mascherano	163,1	FC Barcelona	Argentinien	12
12	Pique	161,5	FC Barcelona	Spanien	13
13	Wayne Rooney	161,5	Manchester United	England	10
14	Pedro	160,9	FC Barcelona	Spanien	14
15	Arjen Robben	160,6	Bayern München	Niederlande	15
16	Karim Benzema	158,0	Real Madrid	Frankreich	18
17	Marcelo	157,9	Real Madrid	Brasilien	17
18	Sergio Ramos	157,8	Real Madrid	Spanien	16
19	Gael Clichy	154,0	Manchester City	Frankreich	19
20	Per Mertesacker	149,0	Arsenal FC	Deutschland	25
21	Neven Subotic	148,5	Borussia Dortmund	Serbien	23
22	Mario Gomez	148,3	ACF Fiorentina	Deutschland	21
23	Salomon Kalou	148,3	Lille OSC	Elfenbeinküste	20
24	Angel Di Maria	147,5	Real Madrid	Argentinien	27
25	Thiago	147,2	Bayern München	Spanien	22
26	Mats Hummels	147,2	Borussia Dortmund	Deutschland	28
27	Gregory van der Wiel	147,1	Paris Saint-Germain	Niederlande	26
28	Toni Kroos	146,4	Bayern München	Deutschland	33
29	Gonzalo Higuain	146,2	SSC Napoli	Argentinien	24
30	Luiz Gustavo	146,1	VfL Wolfsburg	Brasilien	29
31	Andriy Pyatov	145,7	Shakhtar Donetsk	Ukraine	32
32	Jerome Boateng	145,6	Bayern München	Deutschland	38
33	Nani	144,9	Manchester United	Portugal	30
34	Joao Moutinho	144,9	AS Monaco	Portugal	34
35	Mario Götze	144,8	Bayern München	Deutschland	36
36	Sami Khedira	144,7	Real Madrid	Deutschland	39
37	Robert Lewandowski	144,7	Borussia Dortmund	Polen	40
38	Marcel Schmelzer	143,9	Borussia Dortmund	Deutschland	43
39	Johnny Heitinga	143,6	Everton FC	Niederlande	31
40	Toby Alderweireld	143,4	Athletico Madrid	Belgien	41
41	Siem de Jong	142,7	AFC Ajax	Niederlande	42
42	Jan Vertonghen	142,3	Tottenham Hotspur	Belgien	49
43	Holger Badstuber	142,2	Bayern München	Deutschland	37
44	Theo Walcott	142,1	Arsenal FC	England	52
45	Emmanuel Adebayor	141,9	Tottenham Hotspur	Togo	47
46	Fernando	141,9	FC Porto	Brasilien	48
47	Nigel de Jong	141,6	AC Milan	Niederlande	44
48	Isaac Cuenca	141,5	FC Barcelona	Spanien	45
49	Fernandinho	141,5	Manchester City	Brasilien	51
50	Wesley Sneijder	141,3	Galatasaray	Niederlande	35

Only two new players managed to enter new: Theo Walcott and Fernandinho. Guillaume Gillet and Urby Emanuelson dropped out for them.

Fernadinho's development so far. He was so much  undervalued at transfermarkt.de until we joined Manchester City.

Theo Walcott seems undervalued still. I'm not sure why, but my Twitter timeline is often quite critical to his performance. But Goalimpact-wise, he is doing a great job.

Update: I forgot to mention that as always only players under the age of 30 were considered.