Guide
Getting started
A two-minute tour of FDscout: search, profiles, percentiles, shortlists and the three big tools.
Start with a player you know
Type a name into the search bar on the dashboard or the Player lookup page. Pick the player and you land on his profile: identity, positions played, the stats tabs, and the radar and pizza charts beneath. Everything on FDscout starts from a profile, so this is the page to get comfortable with first.
Read the numbers the FDscout way
Almost every number is shown as a per-90 value alongside a percentile. The percentile compares the player with others in his position across the leagues you choose, so 90 means better than 90 per cent of them. Colours follow one scale everywhere: purple for elite, green for strong, amber for average, red for weak.
If a stat name is new to you, click it. A short definition pops up, and the Stats glossary has the full list.
Keep the players you like
The Shortlist button on a profile saves the player to a list. Shortlists are where comparison, similar players and notes live, and shortlisted players feed your notifications and the dashboard.
Find players you do not know yet
Detailed player search filters the whole database by position, age, minutes, league and any stat threshold. Role profiling ranks players against a role, either one of our templates or one you build. Player pools save a search and re-run it every night so new arrivals come to you.
See how he plays, not just how well
Compass puts a playing style on a wheel: 8 sectors, 4 rings for how strong the lean is, and 2 points, one with the ball and one without. Every player with 600 minutes in the last 12 months has one, and so does every covered side and coach. The Compass tab on a profile is a 4 page report, the Compass page in the sidebar searches the wheel, and a team page maps the squad and shows who fits. It reads style, never ability, so pair it with the ratings.
What is free and what needs Unlimited
Your 14-day free trial gives you everything in FDscout, with no card needed: unlimited profiles and searches, your own pools and custom roles, editable columns, the full dashboard and the whole of Compass. Before it ends, choose monthly or annual to carry on, and everything you have saved stays where it is.
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