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Rivaldo Ferreira against the field

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

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0.473goals per cap
74Caps
35Goals
13Categories ranked
International years1993–2003 (11)
PositionMidfielder
Notable clubs16
Major trophies2
Born1972

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

Rivaldo 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.

0.473 goals per cap Top 16% #33 of 198 · sample median 0.243
0.243 Rivaldo Ferreira 0.473 0.000 1.097
  1. #31Alan Shearer0.476
  2. #32Samuel Eto'o0.475
  3. #33Rivaldo Ferreira0.473
  4. #34Dennis Bergkamp0.468
  5. #35Bobby Charlton0.462
02 · Scoring

Rivaldo 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.

2.11 caps per goal Lowest 17% #32 of 180 · sample median 3.88
3.88 Rivaldo Ferreira 2.11 0.91 76.00
  1. #31Alan Shearer2.10
  2. #32Samuel Eto'o2.11
  3. #32Rivaldo Ferreira2.11
  4. #34Dennis Bergkamp2.14
  5. #35Bobby Charlton2.16
03 · Scoring

Rivaldo 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.

3.18 goals per season Top 20% #40 of 198 · sample median 1.68
1.68 Rivaldo Ferreira 3.18 0.00 7.56
  1. #38Wayne Rooney3.31
  2. #39Son Heung-min3.29
  3. #40Rivaldo Ferreira3.18
  4. #41Fernando Torres3.17
  5. #42Eusébio Ferreira3.15
04 · Scoring

Rivaldo 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.

1.99 × their era's average Top 12% #24 of 198 · sample median 0.89
0.89 Rivaldo Ferreira 1.99 0.00 3.67
  1. #22Alan Shearer2.00
  2. #22Samuel Eto'o2.00
  3. #24Rivaldo Ferreira1.99
  4. #25Dennis Bergkamp1.97
  5. #26Kylian Mbappé1.94

Career shape

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

07 · Longevity

Rivaldo 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.

6.73 caps per season Bottom 37% #126 of 198 · sample median 7.50
7.50 Rivaldo Ferreira 6.73 2.00 10.60
  1. #124Andrey Arshavin6.82
  2. #125Vinícius Júnior6.75
  3. #126Rivaldo Ferreira6.73
  4. #127Robinho de Souza6.67
  5. #128Frank Lampard6.63

Silverware and recognition

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

11 · Silverware and fame

Rivaldo 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.

2 trophies Top 23% #46 of 199 · sample median 1
1 Rivaldo Ferreira 2 0 8
  1. #46Paul Scholes2
  2. #46Philipp Lahm2
  3. #46Rivaldo Ferreira2
  4. #46Riyad Mahrez2
  5. #46Ronaldinho Gaúcho2
12 · Silverware and fame

Rivaldo 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.

2.70 per 100 caps Top 25% #50 of 198 · sample median 1.29
1.29 Rivaldo Ferreira 2.70 0.00 20.00
  1. #48Ángel Di María2.76
  2. #49Cesc Fàbregas2.73
  3. #50Rivaldo Ferreira2.70
  4. #51Jérôme Boateng2.63
  5. #52Andrea Pirlo2.59
13 · Silverware and fame

Rivaldo 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.

1.07 languages per cap Top 35% #69 of 198 · sample median 0.89
0.89 Rivaldo Ferreira 1.07 0.43 3.70
  1. #67Kaká Leite1.08
  2. #69Ruud van Nistelrooy1.07
  3. #69Rivaldo Ferreira1.07
  4. #71Zico Coimbra1.04
  5. #72Jérôme Boateng1.03

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