The best add is a sporting question. The price is another.
It diagnoses the squad's exposure first, ranks targets by their delta in this scheme, and hands the price off apart.
Find where the scheme leaves you exposed, then go looking.
A signing is an answer, so the question comes first. The Team KR evaluation runs on the current squad, maps which scheme demands are filled and by whom, and surfaces the gaps and fragilities: an uncovered A-tier demand is a critical gap, a load-bearing position whose only cover is far below the starter is one injury from a scheme-level drop.
This is diagnosis before optimisation, applied to squad building: you do not sign the best available player, you find the position where the scheme is breaking or about to break and fix that. A club that shops for names instead of needs stacks talent where it already has it and stays exposed where it does not. The squad tells you what to buy before the market does.
Illustrative engine read on the real squad diagnosis (the Coverage Map, Missing Demands with A-tier critical and B-tier priority gaps, Fragility Exposure, and Insurance Planning at load-bearing positions), ranked by Team KR impact. Composite squad, demonstration figures.
The best player for you is the biggest delta, not the biggest name.
Once the needs are known, the board ranks available targets by their Team KR delta in your scheme, each run onto a copy of the squad and re-evaluated. A higher individual rating does not win the ranking, fit does, so a lesser-rated player who fills the critical gap can outrank a bigger name who duplicates your starter or does not suit how you play.
The highest-rated player on the board, the 88 attacking mid, is an AVOID, because he makes the squad worse through redundancy, he takes minutes and a squad place from a role you already own while your build-out still has no deep progressor. The 84 who fills the gap is the TARGET. Every verdict, from TARGET down through STRONG ADD, DEPTH, DEVELOPMENT, PASS, and AVOID, is a sporting read on the delta, never the raw rating. Sign the delta, not the name.
Illustrative engine read on the real decision board (targets re-ranked by Team KR delta in the scheme, the verdict tiers from TARGET to AVOID, a redundant high-KR add scoring negative). Composite targets, demonstration figures.
The delta is the sporting answer. The price is separate.
The board never folds the money into the ranking. Squad Construction produces the sporting answer, the Team KR delta and the fit; the Value Engine prices it, the fee, the wage, the FFP and PSR headroom, the cost per KR point. The two sit side by side, because the best sporting add and the right financial one are different questions, and collapsing them hides both.
A TARGET the Value Engine prices beyond the club's means is still the right sporting call and the wrong financial one, said exactly that way rather than quietly downgrading the sporting read to fit the budget. A need that is urgent this window is kept apart from one a young player or a returning loanee resolves on his own, so the club spends where the pressure is real. Rank the fit, price it apart, and buy where the need will not fix itself.
Illustrative engine read on the real sporting-financial separation (Squad Construction produces the Team KR delta and fit, the Value Engine prices it, reported together and never collapsed) and the Multi-Year temporal read (urgent-now versus self-resolving), read-only on the KR. Composite reads, demonstration figures.
Diagnose the exposure, rank the fit, and price it apart.
Diagnose, rank the fit, price it apart.
Squad Construction diagnoses the squad's exposure, ranks targets by Team KR delta in the scheme, leaves the price to the Value Engine without collapsing the two, separates urgent needs from self-resolving ones, and never re-rates a player.