1. Figure 6 shows scatter plots of players with respect to their number of actions along the championship and scores provided by xT, VAEP and GNN-VSP. The three stars highlight the top three players Cristiano Ronaldo (gold), Messi (silver) and Neymar (bronze), respectively. Notice that GNN-VSP is clearly distinguishing the three best players from the remaining ones, giving them higher scores, while the distinction given by xT and VAEP is not so evident, mainly to Cristiano Ronaldo. In fact, Cristiano Ronaldo, the best 2017 player by both France Footbal and FIFA, is ranked by xT, VAEP and GNN-VSP in the 323 th , 93 th and 1 st positions, respectively, showing that the proposed GNN-VSP properly captured ever;the first, second and third positions of both prizes were held by Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar, respectively 8 9,1991
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