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The Performance Lab
Gate 02Player intelligence

See the playerbehind the player.

The Performance Lab turns football data into useful questions. Start by finding players who perform the same role in a similar way.

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Illustrated football performance analysis room with tactical boards and scouting data
The active experiment

Player similarity.

Search for a player, then compare their role-specific statistical profile against the right peers.

Input

Choose a player

Search for a player...

Peer scope

Role + season

Minimum sample

500 mins

Engine

Cosine score

The console is ready

Pick a player. Find their footballing relatives.

The tool compares players inside the right role and season context, rather than chasing surface-level statistics.

Try: Leão · Pulisic · Scamacca · Koopmeiners

How it works

Data should make the game clearer.

This is a starting point, not a final verdict. The value is in the question that follows the comparison.

01

Curated data

A structured dataset is used to test the full player-comparison pipeline with consistency and traceability in mind.

02

Role context

Statistics become percentiles within a player's role and season, avoiding comparisons that flatten football into one position.

03

Similarity score

The engine compares those role-based profiles using cosine similarity, then ranks the closest matches.

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Bring a football question, a data idea or a collaboration worth exploring. We can build something more useful together.

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