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Pepe Ferreira against the field

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

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0.057goals per cap
141Caps
8Goals
13Categories ranked
International years2007–2024 (18)
PositionDefender
Notable clubs4
Major trophies5
Born1983

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

Pepe Ferreira: 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.

0.057 goals per cap Bottom 20% #158 of 198 · sample median 0.243
0.243 Pepe Ferreira 0.057 0.000 1.097
  1. #157Thiago Silva0.062
  2. #158Rodri Hernández0.057
  3. #158Pepe Ferreira0.057
  4. #160Patrick Vieira0.056
  5. #160Paolo Maldini0.056
02 · Scoring

Pepe Ferreira: 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.

17.63 caps per goal Highest 12% #159 of 180 · sample median 3.88
3.88 Pepe Ferreira 17.63 0.91 76.00
  1. #157Thiago Silva16.14
  2. #158Rodri Hernández17.50
  3. #159Pepe Ferreira17.63
  4. #160Patrick Vieira17.83
  5. #161Paolo Maldini18.00
03 · Scoring

Pepe Ferreira: 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.

0.44 goals per season Bottom 19% #160 of 198 · sample median 1.68
1.68 Pepe Ferreira 0.44 0.00 7.56
  1. #158Raphaël Varane0.45
  2. #160Diego Godín0.44
  3. #160Pepe Ferreira0.44
  4. #160Rodri Hernández0.44
  5. #163Giorgio Chiellini0.42
04 · Scoring

Pepe Ferreira: 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.

0.24 × their era's average Bottom 22% #155 of 198 · sample median 0.89
0.89 Pepe Ferreira 0.24 0.00 3.67
  1. #153Thiago Silva0.26
  2. #155Leonardo Bonucci0.24
  3. #155Pepe Ferreira0.24
  4. #155Patrick Vieira0.24
  5. #155Mats Hummels0.24

Career shape

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

07 · Longevity

Pepe Ferreira: 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.

7.83 caps per season Top 41% #81 of 198 · sample median 7.50
7.50 Pepe Ferreira 7.83 2.00 10.60
  1. #79Franz Beckenbauer7.92
  2. #80Robin van Persie7.85
  3. #81Pepe Ferreira7.83
  4. #82John Terry7.80
  5. #83Rodri Hernández7.78

Silverware and recognition

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

11 · Silverware and fame

Pepe Ferreira: 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.

5 trophies Top 7% #14 of 199 · sample median 1
1 Pepe Ferreira 5 0 8
  1. #14Gerd Müller5
  2. #14Paolo Maldini5
  3. #14Pepe Ferreira5
  4. #14Sergio Busquets5
  5. #14Xabi Alonso5
12 · Silverware and fame

Pepe Ferreira: 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.

3.55 per 100 caps Top 18% #36 of 198 · sample median 1.29
1.29 Pepe Ferreira 3.55 0.00 20.00
  1. #34Fernando Torres3.64
  2. #35Iker Casillas3.59
  3. #36Pepe Ferreira3.55
  4. #37Sergio Busquets3.50
  5. #38Cristiano Ronaldo3.43
13 · Silverware and fame

Pepe Ferreira: 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.

0.54 languages per cap Bottom 5% #189 of 198 · sample median 0.89
0.89 Pepe Ferreira 0.54 0.43 3.70
  1. #183Lothar Matthäus0.57
  2. #183Luka Modrić0.57
  3. #189Pepe Ferreira0.54
  4. #190Javier Mascherano0.52
  5. #190Son Heung-min0.52

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