Independent scouting & analysis

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Scout

Reports that tell a recruiter who to sign — and a coach what to fix. Starting with the OFC Pro League.

217

Goals

201

Players

8

Clubs

7

Nations

1,624

Cited facts

71

Sources

Season One, fully sourced — explore the record →

Every minute watched. Every action on the clock. Every claim checkable.

Watched, not scraped

Every report is built from complete match footage watched in real time. Every action is logged to the minute it happened — and tagged by whether the player was under pressure when he made it. No data feed covers this league properly. We do.

What to fix, not just what happened

The system finds the patterns — a defender caught chasing back, clearances going straight to the opposition, a player switching off after the hour — and the scout who watched says why. Every report ends with the top three things to work on, each with the moments on tape that prove it.

Nothing unsourced

Behind every report sits a verified record of the league: 201 players, 8 clubs, 7 nations, 1,624 cited facts from 71 sources. Every judgement in a report traces to a timestamped action. If a fact isn't sourced, it isn't here.

Methodology

How it works

“Watch the full match.” Every report is built from complete match footage watched in real time — not highlights, not clips, not data feeds. There is no shortcut to seeing how a player behaves across 90 minutes.

“Capture everything with a purpose-built tool.” Every position gets its own capture board — a tight set of event codes chosen for that position’s job, logged against a live match clock, each action tagged by whether the player was under pressure when he made it. How a player performs with a man on his back against how he performs with time: no data platform offers that split for this league. Every claim in the final report can be checked against the timestamped log.

“The data flags the pattern. The scout supplies the cause.” Event data can tell you a defender made six recovery sprints. Only someone who watched the match can tell you it was because he started too high. The system finds those patterns and puts each one, with its timestamps, to the scout — and the answers become the report’s Coach’s Notes: the top three things to work on, each with the moments on tape that prove it and the training-ground work to fix it. No data platform can write that section, because no data platform watched the match.

“Backed by a verified database.” Behind every report sits a structured database covering 201 players, 8 clubs across 7 nations, and 72 matches from the OFC Professional League’s inaugural season. Every fact is traceable to its source — 1,624 cited facts drawn from 71 verified sources, tiered by reliability.

What we produce · 01

The player report

One player. One, two or three complete matches, watched end to end, with every action he takes recorded against the minute it happened — and tagged by whether he was under pressure when he took it.

One match shows form. Three show patterns — a problem that appears once might be a bad day; a problem that repeats across matches is a trait, and the report says which is which. Nothing is asserted: every judgement is traceable to a timestamped entry in the appendix, so it can be checked against the footage. Where the record is incomplete, it says so.

View a sample report →

1–3

Matches observed

270

Minutes at full coverage

1

Capture board per position

0

Unsourced claims

The coverage

Three levels
  1. IForm check — one matchNinety minutes, captured properly. A fast, honest read on current form — and the report says plainly what one match can and cannot show.
  2. IIConfirmation — two matchesDoes the pattern repeat? A second match separates the trait from the off day before anyone commits to a judgement.
  3. IIIFull profile — three matchesTwo hundred and seventy minutes, home and away. Patterns confirmed across matches, form compared fixture to fixture, and development points evidenced as traits, not incidents.

What is in it

Ten sections
  1. 01Verdict & recommendationFor a recruiter: sign, pursue, or pass. For a coach: the single highest-leverage thing to work on. Two sentences the reader can act on.
  2. 02The recordEvery measure that matters for the position — duels, reading of the game, distribution, discipline — with each action split by whether he was under pressure when he made it.
  3. 03The clockEvery match, every action plotted against the minute it happened. When a player does his work, and when he stops.
  4. 04StrengthsThree to five, each carrying the timestamps that evidence it.
  5. 05LimitationsThree to five. Written to be unfavourable where the record is unfavourable.
  6. 06Coach’s notesThe top three development points: what happens, the timestamps that prove it, and the training-ground work to fix it. The data flags the pattern; the scout who watched the match supplies the cause.
  7. 07Key momentsEvery decisive action — goals, assists, errors, goal-saving moments — with the read on each.
  8. 08AttributesScored on a position-specific rubric by the scout who watched every minute. Judgement, stated as judgement.
  9. 09ProjectionThe ceiling, the conditions required to reach it, and the risk of it not being reached.
  10. 10AppendixEvery action, in the minute it happened, unabridged. So the report can be checked against the footage.

The clock — excerpt

Match 3 · Home · D 1–1 · 90′ played · 38 actions
0′15′30′45′60′75′90′
Decisive moment — goal, assist, goal-saving intervention or error Above the line: positive Below the line: negative

Illustrative sample — a fictional player, a fictional fixture. No real player’s assessment is published.

What we produce · 02

The team & opposition report

The same method, turned on a whole side. How a team plays with the ball and without it, how it behaves in transition, and how it handles set pieces — built from full-match footage, every read traceable to the moments that prove it.

Written for the person preparing to face them. Not a stats dump: a committed game plan, and the two or three players you actually have to plan around.

Prepared on request, per opponent. The first published example is in preparation.

What is in it

Eight sections
  1. 01VerdictThree sentences on how this team hurts you and how you stop them — the page a coach reads first.
  2. 02In possessionHow they build, where they want the ball, and the patterns they return to when it matters.
  3. 03Out of possessionTheir shape without the ball, where the press can be beaten, and an explicit counter-strategy.
  4. 04In transitionWhat happens in the seconds after a turnover — the phase most reports skip, and where the real edge is.
  5. 05Set piecesTheir routines and their weaknesses, attacking and defending, with the moments on tape.
  6. 06When it’s going wellWhat the team looks like on top — the triggers that let them take a game away from you.
  7. 07When it’s going badlyHow they wobble and what forces it. The section most analysts leave out, and the one that wins matches.
  8. 08Players to plan aroundTwo or three individuals, not a squad list — each with a concrete instruction, not an adjective.

Player or opposition — every report is prepared from full-match footage and tailored to what matters to you. If that would be useful — write to me.

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