A guide to Archetypes
PROJECT: Archetype is an ongoing quest to translate the football meta into RPG-inspired classes in order to better understand a player’s function on the pitch. It marries together two of Jake Entwistle’s core hobbies: video games and football.
Jake Entwistle is a data scout, analyst, and writer for SCOUTED. He is also the architect of Archetypes, a project to quantify the player profiles defining the new football meta. This is Monday Night SCOUTED, his weekly newsletter of data-led narratives from the weekend’s action. He does not use contractions, but his editor doesn’t does not mind.
Each Archetype represents a player profile in the modern game, spotted simply by watching football. Then, in order to accelerate the discovery of similar players, we attempt to translate the eye test into datapoints, discovering superpowers and transforming them into metrics.
Below, you’ll find an ever-expanding list of fully-developed SCOUTED Archetypes, available to all free subscribers.
