TackleZone Attacker Score
Rates attackers on rating, scoring rate, threat volume and finishing, normalised against other attackers.
What it measures
A goal tally tells you who was on the end of chances, not who was the better attacker. A forward in a dominant side will out-score a better player in a worse one, and a total says nothing about how many minutes it took.
TAS is built to answer a narrower question: among attackers who played a real season, who produced most per minute on the pitch, and did they do it by getting into good positions or by finishing unusually well?
Components and weights
Match rating
40%
The provider's per-match rating, averaged across the season. Carries the most weight in every score because it is the only component that reflects things the counting stats miss.
Goals per 90
35%
Rate, not total, so a forward who plays 1,200 minutes is not punished against one who plays 3,000.
Shots on target per 90
15%
Volume of genuine threat. Separates a forward getting into positions from one who is quiet.
Shot conversion
10%
Goals as a share of shots. Small weight on purpose — conversion is noisy over a single season.
Percentages are read directly from the live formula, so this table changes whenever the score does. Each component is normalised across the qualifying pool before the weights are applied.
Why it is built this way
Season goal totals were removed in v2. They double-counted with goals per 90 and created cliffs — a striker on 24 goals sat far above one on 19 twice over, once for the total and again for the rate.
TAS is the only score that winsorises. Each component is clipped to its 5th–95th percentile before normalising, because one extreme outlier otherwise stretches the whole scale and compresses everyone else into the middle.
Who qualifies
900+ minutes in the season block and a match rating of at least 6.8. Players below either bar are not scored, because a per-90 figure drawn from a few hundred minutes measures luck more than ability.
What TAS does not capture
It does not know about penalties. A forward on ten spot-kicks scores the same as one who created everything from open play.
There is no player-level expected goals in our data source, at any price tier, so TAS cannot tell a forward who was wasteful from one who was unlucky.
Link-up play, pressing and movement that creates space for others are invisible to it. A false nine who makes a team work will be underrated.
We publish this section because a score you cannot argue with is not worth much. If one of these limitations matters for the player you are looking at, weigh the number accordingly.