Guide
Detailed player search
Filter the whole database by position, age, minutes, league and stat thresholds, then save the search or turn it into a pool.
Building a search
The pitch picker chooses positions: click one or several. Age, minutes, leagues and nationalities sit beside it, with branded pickers for leagues and countries. The minutes floor matters: it keeps out players with too little football to judge.
Role scores every player for one of our roles, or one of your custom roles. Score is at least keeps only the players at or above the number you set, and the results carry a Role score column.
Stat and attribute thresholds
Add a stat, choose an operator and set a value. Attributes work the same way in the box beside it: pick an attribute, choose an operator and set a rating from 1 to 20. Thresholds combine, so every player returned meets all of them. The counts on the Pick buttons show how many are applied, and the minus on a row removes it. A stat a player's league does not record, or records in only a few of its matches, shows a dash and never meets a threshold, so missing data cannot pass a filter.
Reading the results
Each row carries the player's identity, club, position, age and your chosen columns, which can be stats, attribute ratings or both: Pick columns has an Attributes tab, and the Metrics and Attributes buttons swap the whole set. Sort by any column. Click a row for the full profile, the star to shortlist, the magnifier for similar players and the chevron for his traits, strengths and weaknesses.
Saving and reusing
Save a filter to run it again later from the dashboard or from the pool builder. Turn a search into a pool and FDscout re-runs it every night, telling you who has come in and who has dropped out.
Tips
Start wide and tighten one threshold at a time. Use per-90 stats for anyone with fewer than about 1,500 minutes, and check the minutes column before you get excited about a percentile.
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