The main use for your Sorare cards is to play them in SO5 competitions. In these competitions you select 5 players to score points for you and compete against other managers to earn NFT cards and Etherium.

The Sorare scoring matrix can be a bit of black hole to new players, so across a couple of articles I’m going to run you through how the scoring matrix works and how it influences which players to use in your line-ups. This article focuses on Goalkeeper Scoring, you can find scoring for the rest of the positions here.

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Scoring Overview

Before we dig down in to the nitty-gritty of the scoring matrix, let’s go through the basics of scoring. Players generate two scores through their actions during a game which combine to form an overall score that maxes out at 100.

The Decisive Score rewards players for key positive actions such as scoring, assisting or making a goal line clearance for outfield players and keeping a clean sheet or saving penalties for goalkeepers. Players are punished for key negative actions such as giving away a penalty or being sent off for all players and conceding 3 or more goals for goalkeepers.

The all-around score awards positive and negative scores to players for their more minor actions throughout the game. There are a number of statistics in categories covering possession, attacking, defending, goalkeeping and a general category. The point weighting for each statistic varies by position.

If a player has a net positive decisive score, then a negative total all-round score is ignored. Otherwise, negative all-around scores will reduce the total player score.

Decisive Scores

Players start with a Decisive Score of 0, and so earn 35 points or 25 if they are a substitute. Each positive decisive action adds one to the score and each negative decisive action takes on away from the score.

The table below shows the positive and negative decisive actions that are available for Goalkeepers. Realistically, the clean sheet is the only positive action that we can predict. Goals, Assists and Penalty Saves are unpredictable and most Keepers will be lucky to achieve one of these positive actions in a season.

On the negative side, we should be looking to avoid Goalkeepers playing against a heavy favourite. Conceding 3+ goals or giving away a penalty both give negative scores and are very possible for a Goalkeeper up against it for 90 minutes. Errors leading to goals may also correlate to hard match-ups but like penalties conceded will be difficult to predict.

All-Around Scores

As you might expect, Goalkeepers can rack up some big points from making saves but equally they can lose big from conceding. In particular a goalkeeper conceding 3 goals will earn a negative decisive score and -9 points on their all-around score. From that base of 6 points, it’s very unlikely a goalkeeper will be able to produce a good score. Therefore it’s imperative we choose goalkeepers who are unlikely to concede multiple goals.

For most Goalkeepers, the scoring from the rest of the actions won’t be a significant contributor to their total score. The one exception will, on some occasions, be goalkeepers who play a lot of passes such as Ederson at Manchester City. Although, even then this won’t be a reliable source of points.

How do the top Keepers do it?

Finally, let’s take a look over the top 10 ranked goalkeepers on Soraredata and see how they earn their scores. The important question is how should we prioritise where our goalkeepers points will come from. Do they need a decisive action to earn a 60+ point score, or can we have success through all-around score when 1-2 goals are conceded? The answer to this will dictate how we should select our goalkeepers to maximise our chances of a strong score.

The top 10 goalkeepers are based on their average score over the last 15 games. They come from a variety of leagues, but unsuprisingly are all from teams with strong defences.

Overall, we can see that for the top keepers on the platform, it’s very difficult to score 60 points without keeping a clean sheet. Over the last 15 games for all 10 Goalkeepers combined, there are only 3 games where a keeper scored over 60 points without a decisive action. So to get a big score with any kind of reliability we need a decisive action.

In total, the keepers played 116 out of a possible 150 games and recorded 63 positive decisive actions and 0 negative actions. Averaging out to a decisive in 2 out of every 3 games played. As expected, the majority of these were clean sheets (84%) with a small number of penalty saves (12%) and the remainder assists.

In summary, when selecting a Goalkeeper for a line-up we should choose the player we think has the best chance of a clean sheet!

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