Defence, Scotland
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
30
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
Scotland
our board
#1118
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
3169′
37 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
2.50
81th percentile of peers
Sourced
- squad
- Scotland · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.
Our rating · the working
the board →1589 ±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
1591 full roster Elo (+3 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 Scotland's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
- 1573
- age curve at 30 (defences' curve)the position's measured peak, no discount either way
- +0
- transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
- +16
- quality rating · club, age + measured output
- 1589
- form: national-team results, 37 appearances3169 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- +3
- full roster Elo · with results
- 1591
Where the +16 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
- 2.50 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
- his rank
- 81th percentile of qualified peers
- scored from
- the CC0 Transfermarkt community mirror; a market-consensus quality prior, taken at a capped weight where it reads a player higher than our (fixed, partial) shot/event data can
- the arithmetic
- 46 pts/σ × z(80.5th) = 46 × 0.86 × 0.4 (position weight) = +16
A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-24. 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
#1118 of 1424 rated players on our board.
workload
He barely leaves the pitch: 86′ a night across 37 folded appearances.
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 · Scotland’s record
- v Brazil0–3Called it
- v Morocco0–1Called it
- at Haiti0–1Called it
The newsroom’s calls on Scotland. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.
Squad · sourced
- Aaron Hickey
- Andrew Robertson
- Angus Gunn
- Anthony Ralston
- Ben Doak
- Che Adams
- Craig Gordon
- Dominic Hyam
- Findlay Curtis
- George Hirst
- Grant Hanley
- John McGinn
- John Souttar
- Kenny McLean
- Kieran Tierney
- Lawrence Shankland
- Lewis Ferguson
- Liam Kelly
- Lyndon Dykes
- Nathan Patterson
- Ross Stewart
- Ryan Christie
- Scott McKenna
- Scott McTominay
- Tyler Fletcher