Chris Wood

Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.

At a glance

age
34
sourced with the squad
position
Offence
New Zealand
our board
#323
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
1268′
19 appearances
npxG per 90
0.33
91th percentile of peers

On the pitch

Chances created for New Zealand, on the record.

goals
0
assists
2

goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record

Sourced

squad: New Zealand · Offencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.

Our rating · the working

the board →

1837 ±45

his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.

How the number is builtopenclose

1815 full roster Elo (−22 from national-team results)

the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band

Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much

at or near his peak, no projected upside from age

Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.

starts at New Zealand's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1799
age curve at 34 (offences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls: -22
attacking output in club football, our xG modelhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons: +61
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1837
form: national-team results, 19 appearances1268 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: -22
full roster Elo · with results: 1815

Where the +61 skill term comes from

Not a reputation, a measurement. We score every shot in the data ourselves and rank him among minutes-qualified peers; a fixed arithmetic turns that rank into points.

measured: 0.33 npxG per 90
his rank: 91th percentile of qualified peers
scored from: recent club seasons, every shot scored by our own xG model
the arithmetic: 46 pts/σ × z(90.7th) = 46 × 1.32 = +61

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-27. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.

The notebook

The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.

standing
#323 of 1424 rated players on our board.
vs his seed
The folded nights have cost him 22 points off his seed, kept on the record, like everything.

What he’d cost · our estimate

We don’t price him yet. Our fee model leans on the level he plays at, and no trusted source has given us his club’s strength. We’d rather show nothing than a number we don’t trust.

The fee record · sourced

The market’s last public word: €17m (2023-07). The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

2023-07-01Newcastle → Nottingham Forest€17m
2023-01-20Newcastle → Nottingham Forestloan
2022-01-13Burnley → Newcastle€30m
2017-08-21Leeds → Burnley€16m

Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.

In our coverage · New Zealand’s record

v Belgium1–5Called it
v Egypt1–3Called it
at Iran2–2Missed it

The newsroom’s calls on New Zealand. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.