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Match the Player: Eight Players, Eight Categories

Match the Player is a free daily football game on Quizebra in which you place eight footballers into eight stat categories, one each. Every placement is scored on how close that player’s real number is to the best in the whole player database, and the eight scores are added up. The categories overlap, so more than one player could fit any of them, and the puzzle is the arrangement where all eight fit best at once. There is no timer, and everyone gets the same eight players each day.

What Are the Eight Categories?

They come in four rows of two, rebuilt for every puzzle:

Row one is two competition titles, always “most”: most Champions League titles beside most Serie A titles, for example

Row two takes a goals count and row three a games count, each split both ways, so “fewest La Liga goals” sits beside “most La Liga goals”

Row four is usually most clubs played for beside highest career-high market value. In 21 of the 1,804 puzzles it is fewest and most career red cards instead

Titles are drawn from nine competitions and the statistics from fifteen, which makes 1,033 different category boards across the 1,804 puzzles.

How Is Your Score Calculated?

Every placement is judged on how close that player’s real number is to the best in the whole player database for that category. A perfect fit costs nothing; the worst possible fit costs 100. Your eight placements are added up, and the total is then measured against the best and the worst arrangements your eight players allow, both found by checking all 40,320 ways of filling the board.

So nothing is simply right or wrong. A player who is only good in a category costs a little rather than everything, and one badly placed player costs far less than a board that is wrong all over.

How Is It Different From Match the Country?

Match the Country looks the same but scores differently. A country has a real world ranking in every category, so that game scores you the rank itself, from #1 to #197. Football has no such fixed table, so this game measures how close a player’s own number is to the career best and worst in the database instead. The board and the percentage are the same; what a placement costs is not.

Tips for a Better Score

Start with the “fewest” slots. In a league or Champions League category a player who never played there has a zero, which is a perfect fit and costs nothing, so a career Premier League defender in “fewest La Liga goals” is a free placement while a striker there is expensive. In a World Cup, Euros or Europa League goals category everyone on the board has scored, so look for the lowest number instead.

Then place your strongest players last. If two of your eight would both fit a “most” slot almost perfectly, put the one with other options elsewhere and keep the slot for the player who fits nowhere else.

When Does the Daily Puzzle Reset?

A new set of eight arrives at midnight London time, with a fresh leaderboard, and everyone in the world gets the same one. There are 1,804 sets in all, and once the daily puzzle is done you can keep playing practice rounds, which are unlimited and never touch the daily leaderboard. Free, no account, no ads.

League and Champions League goals and games come from StatMuse. World Cup, Europa League and Euros goals come from Wikipedia. Titles and market values come from Transfermarkt, the number of clubs a player has played for comes from Wikidata, and career red cards were compiled by hand.

Prefer a single stat to eight at once? Order the Player gives you one, or Who Has More? if you want it faster.