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Anderson Deco against the field

13 categories, one sample: Anderson Deco against 199 of the most recognizable footballers in DailyFoot's data. Every card shows the whole field's distribution with Anderson Deco pinned inside it.

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0.067goals per cap
75Caps
5Goals
13Categories ranked
International years2003–2010 (8)
PositionMidfielder
Notable clubs10
Major trophies0
Born1977

Every ranking here is drawn from the same sample: DailyFoot's 199 most recognizable footballers, using the caps, goals, career years and honours in the game's own data.

Scoring rates

Goals measured against appearances, seasons and the era the player scored them in.

01 · Scoring

Anderson Deco: Goals per cap

International goals divided by international appearances. The purest scoring rate this data can support, and the number pundits mean by "goals-per-game ratio". Players under 20 caps are left out: a ratio over a handful of matches ranks first and means nothing.

0.067 goals per cap Bottom 23% #153 of 198 · sample median 0.243
0.243 Anderson Deco 0.067 0.000 1.097
  1. #151Giorgio Chiellini0.068
  2. #151Daniel Alves0.068
  3. #153Anderson Deco0.067
  4. #154Leonardo Bonucci0.066
  5. #154Dunga Verri0.066
02 · Scoring

Anderson Deco: Caps per goal

How many international appearances the player needed for each goal they scored. The same fact as goals per cap, read the way a scouting note phrases it: lower is more lethal.

15.00 caps per goal Highest 15% #153 of 180 · sample median 3.88
3.88 Anderson Deco 15.00 0.91 76.00
  1. #151Giorgio Chiellini14.63
  2. #152Daniel Alves14.75
  3. #153Anderson Deco15.00
  4. #154Leonardo Bonucci15.13
  5. #155Dunga Verri15.17
03 · Scoring

Anderson Deco: Goals per international season

International goals spread across the years between a first and last cap. It rewards scoring a lot in a short window, which a per-cap rate hides: two players on the same ratio can be ten years apart in how fast they got there.

0.63 goals per season Bottom 27% #144 of 198 · sample median 1.68
1.68 Anderson Deco 0.63 0.00 7.56
  1. #142Roberto Carlos0.67
  2. #143George Best0.64
  3. #144Anderson Deco0.63
  4. #144Carlos Casemiro0.63
  5. #146John Terry0.60
04 · Scoring

Anderson Deco: Era-adjusted goal rate

Goals per cap divided by the average goals per cap of everyone in this sample who debuted in the same decade. 1.00 is exactly average for the era, 2.00 is twice as prolific as the players they actually played against. Scoring rates fell as the game professionalised, so this is the fairest way to put a 1950s forward next to a modern one.

0.28 × their era's average Bottom 24% #151 of 198 · sample median 0.89
0.89 Anderson Deco 0.28 0.00 3.67
  1. #150Giorgio Chiellini0.29
  2. #151Daniel Alves0.28
  3. #151Anderson Deco0.28
  4. #153Franz Beckenbauer0.26
  5. #153Thiago Silva0.26

Career shape

When the career started, how long it ran, and how densely it was played.

07 · Longevity

Anderson Deco: Caps per season

Appearances divided by the seasons between a first and last cap: how relentlessly a player was picked while they were in the squad, rather than how long they lasted. Fixture calendars grew over the decades, so the leaders here are almost all modern.

9.38 caps per season Top 10% #21 of 198 · sample median 7.50
7.50 Anderson Deco 9.38 2.00 10.60
  1. #19Lilian Thuram9.47
  2. #20Luka Modrić9.43
  3. #21Anderson Deco9.38
  4. #22Nani da Cunha9.33
  5. #23Bastian Schweinsteiger9.31

Silverware and recognition

Trophies won, trophies per appearance, and how widely the player is written about.

11 · Silverware and fame

Anderson Deco: Major trophies

World Cups, continental titles, Nations Leagues, Olympic golds and European Cups/Champions Leagues added together. Domestic leagues and cups are not in this data, so this counts the honours the game itself asks about, not a full trophy cabinet.

0 trophies Bottom 32% #136 of 199 · sample median 1
1 Anderson Deco 0 0 8
  1. #136Alan Shearer0
  2. #136Alfredo Di Stéfano0
  3. #136Anderson Deco0
  4. #136Andriy Shevchenko0
  5. #136Arda Turan0
12 · Silverware and fame

Anderson Deco: Trophies per 100 caps

Major trophies scaled to a hundred appearances: silverware rate rather than silverware total, which stops a long career from automatically outranking a decorated short one.

0.00 per 100 caps Bottom 31% #136 of 198 · sample median 1.29
1.29 Anderson Deco 0.00 0.00 20.00
  1. #136Alan Shearer0.00
  2. #136Alfredo Di Stéfano0.00
  3. #136Anderson Deco0.00
  4. #136Andriy Shevchenko0.00
  5. #136Arda Turan0.00
13 · Silverware and fame

Anderson Deco: Wikipedia languages per cap

How many Wikipedia language editions cover the player, divided by their caps. A rough measure of fame earned per appearance: high means the world knows them for something other than turning up a lot.

0.93 languages per cap Top 45% #90 of 198 · sample median 0.89
0.89 Anderson Deco 0.93 0.43 3.70
  1. #88Hidetoshi Nakata0.94
  2. #90Alessandro Del Piero0.93
  3. #90Anderson Deco0.93
  4. #92Mario Gómez0.92
  5. #92Klaas-Jan Huntelaar0.92

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