Brad Smith played 8 seasons (2018–2025) for SEA, DCU, HOU and CIN. Career regular-season line: 6 goals and 15 assists in 7,352 minutes. Standard career, peaking in 2021.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLS · corpus from 2013
Cross-sport prominence: 92.0th percentile among MLS careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
MLS Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLS Career Arc TypesMLS Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLS Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeMLS Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustMLS JourneymenMLS League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsMLS LoyaltyMLS VAL Leaders — Value Above LeagueWho Was the Best MLS Player Each Year?Career Twins — Equally Dominant Careers Across Different SportsCross-Sport Era-Adjusted Careers — The Greatest Careers, One Axis
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Player bios, per-season advanced metrics (xG/xA/shots/minutes), teams, and coaches come from ASA's free public API.
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6 seasons · peak 6.3 in 2021
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLS season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
1.9 career wins over 6 seasons · 1 win = 9.33 VAL
Best season · 2021 · +0.7 wins
Latest season · 2024 · +0.3 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLS player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Brad Smith led or placed top-ten on a MLS season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Standard
A varied career arc that doesn't conform to a single pattern. Peak 2021, 6 rated seasons.
Knox attacking read
Career attacking rates calculated directly from the source totals. No invented league percentile or model estimate.
Attacking fingerprint: the share of recorded career goal contributions that came from goals versus assists—not a league rank.
Peak qualifying season: 2024 · 0.70 goals + assists per 90 across 515 minutes.
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Wore 4 distinct franchise crests across 8 seasons (2018–2025) — a true nomad. The crest trail: