What HalfTimeScout is, how scouting works, and who it's for.
HalfTimeScout is a free web app where you become the scout. You discover real footballers, rate them attribute by attribute, and shape each player's profile with your own judgement. After every scout, you see your call next to the numbers — for the player overall and for every single attribute.
Stop reading ratings. Start making them: halftimescout.com
Those apps compute one score from match data — an algorithm rating a single performance, skewed by how the whole team played. HalfTimeScout hands you the pen: you don't read a number, you make the call. An algorithm rates a performance; a scout rates the player.
Yes. Player attributes are derived from real match statistics via API-Football, a licensed data provider. No FIFA, Football Manager or Kaggle datasets — around 18,000+ real players across 30+ leagues.
The scouting mindset is similar — attributes, judgement, finding talent early. The difference: these are real players with attributes built from real performances, not a game's invented numbers. Your ratings live on a real player's profile.
Pick a player — the daily Featured Player on the homepage, or anyone via Discover. Rate them attribute by attribute. When you finish, the result screen shows THE NUMBERS vs YOU: the data-based rating next to your call, and how every attribute moved. That's your scout report, saved to the player's profile.
Yes. HalfTimeScout is in free beta. You only need an account to start scouting.
HalfTimeScout is a web app — it runs in any browser at halftimescout.com, on phone or desktop. There's nothing to install and no App Store download.
No. If you watch football and have opinions on players, you already do this in your head. HalfTimeScout gives those opinions a home and a record. XP, levels and badges track your progress as you scout.
A new Featured Player every 24 hours, and a database of 18,000+ players to explore. Coming soon: proof you spotted a player before they broke out, and how your eye compares to the community.
For fans who argue player quality in group chats and Reddit threads and want their takes to count — armchair scouts, Football Manager players, tactics nerds, anyone who's ever said "I called that" with nowhere to point.
Stop reading ratings. Start making them.
Start scouting