Castrol Index Releases Latest Major League Soccer Results

08.02.65

About the Castrol Measure

The Castrol Index, a proprietary technology that objectively ranks a player's performance, was launched in 2008 with Castrol's official sponsorship of the UEFA Euro2008™ competition. It was further expanded and refined in partnership with FIFA for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ and is now used the world over -- supporting the 5 prime European Leagues and the UEFA Champions League™. This innovative tool analyzes and tracks every players move, providing statistical facts and insightful analysis to fans, players and coaches to enhance their engagement with the game.  

Castrol's team of performance analysts use the latest technology to objectively analyze every coordinate in the 2011 MLS season, logging an average of 1,800 player movements per match.  The Castrol Index tracks every move on the soccer field and assesses whether it has a negative or positive impact on a team's ability to score or concede a goal.  A key backer for all areas of performance in the Castrol Index is which zone on the pitch the action takes place.  The Castrol Index operates on the equanimity that not all passes are created equal; a player's quality is more than just the goals and shots he generates and individual actions have their own merits.  Each sportsman is awarded a score out of 10 to determine the best performing players in MLS over the season.

Source: PR Newswire (press release)

Universal Lubricants is going 'green,' poised for growth

09.06.11

The activity is palpable in John Wesley's voice as he takes his Wichita used-oil refinery green. Wesley, the chief management of Universal Lubricants, doubles as the chief evangelist for the company's closed-loop collection and distribution take care of for used motor oil.

Someday soon, he intends to have a nation full of believers.

Universal's business is collecting familiar motor oil and re-refining it back to a virgin state for use in cars and diesel engines and by asphalt contractors.

It's on the forefront of the earnestness's shift from the days when used oil was burned away.

"The highest value for used oil for years and years in use accustomed to to be the burner market," said Wesley, a 30-year petroleum industry veteran with 25 years on the Valvoline payroll.

"And that was OK, certainly advantage than illegally dumping the product or disposing of it in an improper manner.

"The problem is, once used oil is burned, it's gone. So we allow that the highest value over the short term became refining the oil to a virgin approved specification."

Source: Kansas.com