Who helps Real Salt Lake pick up results? (and Matias Mantilla news)

First off, if you haven't heard, Matias Mantilla sounds to be pretty much done with RSL. Eric Salsbery (Deuce) reports this.

Next, we're off to my wonderful fascination with statistics. This time I decided to look at the team as a whole as compared to my fixation on a single player.

My first section shows who gives Real Salt Lake the best results in a game in which they made an appearance.

I decided to use two more factors in who helps RSL get results. These next two sections use a percentage of how many games a particular player changed the result of a game during the time on the field. For example, if a starter gets subbed out in the 60th minutes with a 1-0 lead, I would add 1 to the Positive Result category (even if the team ties or loses that game). Opportunities are the times they enter a game with a chance at changing the result for positive/negative. Using the last example, the player replacing the starter in the 60th minute, does not have any chance to improve the result of the game. So, this game would not add to opportunities. Lastly, the percent is the count divided by the opportunities (simple enough).

A few interesting notes. Tino Nunez and Matias Cordoba have the two best PPG (with more than 3 games). However, they seemed to affect the games the least during their time in (Cordoba 1+ and 0- in 7 games, Nunez 2+ and 1- in 9 games). So, those two seem to have games barely fluctuate during their time on the pitch. Jamison Olave seems to be the out-and-out best player with respect to these fields. Olave has positively affected a game during his time on the field 50% of the positive opportunities. While, only having negative effects in 14% of the negative opportunities.

UPDATE: Here is a Best XI on the year from these stats (independent of if they are current or how many games they played):

--------------Rimando--------------
-Russell--Olave-Borchers---Beltran-
--------------Sturgis--------------
-Cordoba-----------------Beckerman-
--------------Morales--------------
-------Nunez----------Espindola----
Honorable Mention:
Kovalenko (High Postive impact)
Williams (Good Positive to Negative Ratio)
Cutler (High PPG)

What are some of your thoughts. Feel free to leave comments below.