Peer player ratings
After a match, any confirmed player can give another confirmed player in that same match a 1-to-5-star rating — once, no re-voting — and the average shows on their jersey card and on their own athlete profile.
What are peer player ratings?
It's a way for players themselves to rate each other's performance in a specific match, no coach or referee needed to log anything — 1 to 5 stars, given player to player.
The idea behind it is simple: the teammates who actually played the match know better than anyone who stood out that day, so the rating comes from whoever was actually on the field or court.
How it works
Any confirmed player in a match — rostered starter or just a pickup attendee — can rate any other confirmed player in that same match, even across the two sides. Pickup matches count exactly the same as matches with a fixed roster.
The stars sit below each player's own jersey card, outside the card itself, right on the match's detail view — built to make rating everyone quick, without having to open each profile one by one.
Every rating is one-shot: once you rate someone for that match, it locks — no changing your mind and re-voting. The point is to push you toward rating other players in that match instead of fiddling with the same vote.
If you've already rated a player, their stars show filled in and disabled — no error message, because the stars themselves already show that rating is done.
The average rating a player has received shows right on their jersey card during the match (a dash instead of a number until the first rating comes in), and also on their own athlete profile's stats grid.
In a rematch or a new session of the same pickup game, ratings start over from zero — each match (or rematch) has its own independent set of ratings.
Who this is for
Pickup groups who want a quick, informal way to recognize who played well, and more organized teams who want a second performance signal beyond just goals and cards — the opinion of whoever was actually on the field.
Key features
1-to-5 stars
A simple rating, given player to player, no complicated scale.
Broad eligibility
Any confirmed player in the match can rate and be rated, rostered or not.
Once per match
No re-voting — the rating locks the moment you rate someone in that match.
No error message
Once you've rated someone, their stars just show filled and locked, nothing else.
Rating on the jersey
The average received shows right on the player's jersey card during the match.
Reflected on the profile
The average rating feeds into the player's own athlete-profile stats grid.
How this fits into Pulse Tactical
Rating happens right from a match's own detail view (see "Match Center"), the average shows on that player's athlete profile (see "Athlete Profiles") and, once it exists, it also weighs into that match's own Pulse Card performance calculation. Everything runs at board.pulseup.io with your regular PulseUp account.
Rate the players in your next match
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