Player profiles

The top of the page

The header shows who he is: photo, name, nationality and age, club and league (both open their own pages), the contract end and this season's apps, starts, minutes, goals and assists across his league and European games. The four buttons shortlist him, add him to one of your pools, start a comparison or find similar players. Eight tabs sit beneath it.

Overview

The position map shows where he has actually started, decoded from match formations. Best suited role is the template role he scores highest for, with his score and rank, and the next three roles below it. Attributes rate him 1 to 20 across 16 skills (5 for goalkeepers) on one scale across the covered leagues, with the standard of his league and his European games built in, so a 16 means the same thing whoever he is. Hover a rating to see it competition by competition when he has played in more than one; his penalty record sits under the ratings, and height and foot sit in the corner. Attributes are an Unlimited feature. Form shows his 12-month average rating and his last 15 matches in three blocks of 5, league and European games together, and every block or match opens a summary. Traits are behaviours we detect from his data, and the Compass tile shows his playing style in and out of possession.

Metrics

A table of stat, per 90 (or totals, from the dropdown) and percentile, with the percentile as a coloured bar. It reads his league games only, so he is always compared like for like. Summary shows the headline stats for his position; the other groups go deeper. Key stats, the time frame and the comparison group sit beside the table, and changing any of them updates the whole tab. Click a stat name for its 12-month trend. A stat his league does not record, or records in only a few of its matches, shows N/A rather than a near-zero, and if he has played in more than one league each stat comes from the leagues that record it.

Roles

Most suited role with its icon, score, rank and description, the next roles as rows that open for their description and rank, and your own custom roles scored against him.

Role profiling guide

Data viz

Radar, pizza, distribution curves and scatter, with the templates changed from the dropdowns. The pizza groups its slices by the Metrics tab's skill groups, one colour each.

Form

His last 20 matches, league and European, as a line of ratings with the date and opponent under each, a panel with the selected match's score, rating and key numbers, and the full game log beneath with each game's competition.

Compass

His playing style: how he plays in possession and out of it, not how good he is.

Compass guide

Report

A scouting report built from the other tabs, in his club's colours. He is compared with his position across the big-5 European leagues if he plays in one, and otherwise with his own league; where his league has fewer than 25 players in his position, the leagues closest to it in standard are added and named. The report covers the last 24 months of league football, with a switch to the last 12.

It opens with the headline facts and a summary written from his numbers: the role he profiles as and his rank in that group, how many of his measures for the position sit in the top 10% and the bottom 20%, why you would sign him, what to be aware of, and his age, contract, minutes and injuries. Below the summary come his positions and roles, his attributes and their shape, his per-90 numbers against the group, every league and European game in the window with a 10-game average, his headline numbers season by season, his style, a chart of him against the group, his league and European seasons and your notes. A stat his league does not record is left out rather than counted as zero. Attributes, the FDscout value and Compass are the same whoever he is compared with.

History

Season by season totals, with his league and his European competitions (Champions League, Europa League, Conference League and Super Cup, from the league phase on) as separate rows, and his injury record.

Notes

Anything you write here is private to your account, editable, and collected on your dashboard.

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