One player, one universal KR scale, read through his club's actual scheme at a stated confidence.
Every other system hands you a rating and stops. This one presses, down to the trait and the tier of data behind it. A composite attacking midfielder, read through his club's real scheme. Press a cluster to open its traits.
The OVERALL is 83.4, and every layer under it is legible: strong on the ball, ordinary out of possession, honest about which reads are measured and which are reasoned. You are never asked to trust a number you cannot open. A rating you can press to the evidence is a rating you can argue with, which is the only kind worth having.
Illustrative engine read on the real KR hierarchy (OVERALL, Attacking and Defending KR, three components, 12 clusters, traits, each tiered). Composite player, demonstration figures.
One scale covers the whole pyramid, so a Premier League player and a third-tier player sit on the same KR. The honest difference is not a different number. It is how much of each read is measured versus reasoned, shown as the width of the band. Two composite players, both KR 78.
Both read 78, and treating them as identical bets would be a lie. The Premier League 78 is nearly locked; the third-tier 78 is a wide claim one good scouting trip could move seven points either way. That gradient is carried as confidence, so the level lives in the band, not in a fudged number. One scale is only honest if the uncertainty rides with it.
Illustrative engine read on the real coverage-gradient and confidence-band structure (KLVN one scale, MEASURED vs INFERRED by data coverage). Composite players, demonstration figures.
There is no scheme-agnostic identity number, because production is always read through a scheme. The OVERALL is fixed to the club he actually plays for. The Scheme Explorer re-prices him for any other scheme on demand, and his ceiling is a separate on-demand read, never a number sitting next to the OVERALL competing for attention.
Move him to a direct 4-2-3-1 in a mid block and his creation is worth less while his defensive load eases, so the fit pair shifts, but the locked OVERALL never moves. His ceiling is a real 86 in his best scheme, offered only when asked for, never inflated into the headline. The default output is the true one: what he is, where he actually plays. Believable over impressive. A real 79 percent beats a manufactured 95.
Illustrative engine read on the real locked-OVERALL, Scheme Explorer, and on-demand ceiling structure (scheme = formation by style; Off Fit and Def Fit as a pair). Composite player, demonstration figures.
A manufactured 95 fails the first time reality tests it; a real 79 survives.
A single locked KR you can open to the evidence, priced with the confidence that sizes the bet.