Tommy Smith

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
35
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
New Zealand
our board
#1327
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
0′
0 appearances

Sourced

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

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

Our rating · the working

the board →

1537 ±80

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

1537 full roster Elo (+0 from national-team results)

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

Tier 3, results only, 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: 1557
age curve at 35 (defences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls: -20
individual skill termour club xG models haven't seen enough of him for a confident read, so nothing is added, never guessed: +0
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1537
form: national-team results, 0 appearancesmoves with every finished match he plays: +0
full roster Elo · with results: 1537

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 1970-01-01. 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
#1327 of 1424 rated players on our board.
fresh ledger
Not one folded match yet, today's number is all prior (shirt, age, measured skill). His first night will move it.

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.

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.