Most youth soccer stats — goals, assists, wins — are team outcomes pretending to be individual signals. A striker on a dominant team looks like a superstar; the same striker on a weaker team, with the same technique, looks average. If you're using stats to decide where a player is developmentally, you need metrics that move with the player, not the team.
The Five Numbers
These are the only five stats LevelUp maintains for a player profile, because they are the only five that move with skill rather than team context.
- Ball control score — touches that go where intended, weighted for context.
- First touch score — clean receptions into playable positions.
- Passing score — accuracy and line-breaking value.
- Dribbling score — 1v1 success under pressure.
- Shooting score — placement, variety, weak-foot usage.
The Sixth Metric
Soccer IQ — decision quality — lives outside the technical five because it is graded from film review, not drill reps. A player scanning 6 times before a touch, playing a line-breaking pass instead of a safe one back, reading a press trigger before it arrives — that is the number every college coach is looking for.
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How They Build to a Profile
Together the six numbers produce the LevelUp Player Score (LPS) — a single honest number that trends over a season and does not inflate with team wins. Coaches can read an LPS in 5 seconds; it is deliberately not a fantasy-league scoreboard.