Scouting
Latentscouting provides data-driven scouting reports for football agents, clubs, and players, using a database of over 615,000 player-match statistics from 22 competitions to generate a latent performance rating and market valuation. Users can submit a Transfermarkt link and receive a detailed nine-section PDF report within 48 hours, with the underlying methodology and backtested transfer performance publicly available.
- Data & Analytics
- Sports Technology
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Football scouting decisions are often based on reputation and subjective opinion rather than measurable performance, especially for players in lesser-known leagues. Agents, clubs, and players lack a reliable, cross-league standard to compare talent and determine fair market value, leading to mispriced transfers and missed opportunities.
Solution
Latentscouting provides data-driven scouting intelligence built on a database of over 615,000 player-match stat lines from 22 competitions. The core product is a nine-section PDF report that includes a "Latent Level" rating—a corridor-calibrated cross-league score fitted on how players who actually moved between leagues performed afterwards. Reports include career development, squad-fit analysis against a named target club, a named shortlist of transfer destinations, valuation and fee comparables, and stated limits of the methodology. The company publishes its methodology and backtests against real transfers publicly, including weak results, to demonstrate the model's validity.
Target Audience
Primary customers are football agents, clubs, and players who need objective, data-backed scouting assessments to support transfer decisions, particularly for players in leagues that receive less scouting attention.
Features
- Latent Level: a cross-league performance rating calibrated using actual post-transfer outcomes, measured in minutes earned rather than opinions
- Database of 615,070 player-match stat lines, 20,248 matches, and 22 competitions, with 3,034 moves abroad tracked
- Nine-section report covering career development, Latent Level vs league, Level vs target team, transfer analysis with named clubs, style & comparables, form & usage, continental evidence, valuation & fee comps, and stated limits
- Publicly published methodology and backtest: 3,597 transfers replayed with a +0.241 Spearman correlation between rating and disclosed fees on 1,257 transfers
- 48-hour turnaround from confirmation of a report request
- Free sample reports published in full, unedited, for verification before purchase