David Villa played 4 seasons (2015–2018) for NYC. Career regular-season line: 77 goals and 19 assists in 10,413 minutes. Standard career, peaking in 2017.
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
+ 2 more career boards inside the all-time top 100.
On the MLS Career Dominance board — top-25 in more than one all-time category at once.
Cross-sport prominence: 98.9th 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?
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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Rate David Villa — All-Time
4 seasons · peak 18.8 in 2017
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.
6.9 career wins over 4 seasons · 1 win = 9.33 VAL
Best season · 2017 · +2.0 wins
Latest season · 2018 · +1.5 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 David Villa 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.
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league-leading seasons · 4 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Standard
A varied career arc that doesn't conform to a single pattern. Peak 2017, 4 rated seasons.
Season boards
4
top-ten finishes across the MLS season boards
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: 2018 · 0.91 goals + assists per 90 across 1,871 minutes.
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Gave the New York City FC an entire corpus-attributed career — 4 seasons (2015–2018), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.