Josef Martínez played 10 seasons (2017–2026) for ATL, MIA, MTL and 2 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 131 goals and 17 assists in 17,161 minutes. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 2018. Led the league in a statistical category 1 time.
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
+ 1 more career board 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: 99.4th 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-Bust
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 Josef Martínez — All-Time
9 seasons · peak 23.6 in 2018
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.
8.6 career wins over 9 seasons · 1 win = 9.33 VAL
Best season · 2018 · +2.5 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 Josef Martínez 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 · 3 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 2018, 9 rated seasons.
Season boards
3
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: 2017 · 1.11 goals + assists per 90 across 1,621 minutes.
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Wore 5 distinct franchise crests across 10 seasons (2017–2026) — a true nomad. The crest trail: