Paul Arriola played 10 seasons (2017–2026) for DCU, FCD and SEA. Career regular-season line: 40 goals and 25 assists in 15,619 minutes. Standard career, peaking in 2022.
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.
Cross-sport prominence: 92.7th 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 AxisCross-Sport Era-Adjusted Seasons — The Greatest Years, 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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Rate Paul Arriola — All-Time
8 seasons · peak 6.4 in 2022
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.
2.0 career wins over 8 seasons · 1 win = 9.33 VAL
Best season · 2022 · +0.7 wins
Latest season · 2026 · +0.4 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 Paul Arriola 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 2022, 8 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: 2026 · 0.79 goals + assists per 90 across 685 minutes.
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Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 10 seasons (2017–2026) — a true nomad. The crest trail: