Tommy Thompson played 11 seasons (2014–2024) for SJE. Career regular-season line: 5 goals and 8 assists in 10,937 minutes. Shooting Star 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
Cross-sport prominence: 84.1th 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.
Fan Rating
Rate Tommy Thompson — All-Time
10 seasons · peak 4.4 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.
1.0 career wins over 10 seasons · 1 win = 9.33 VAL
Best season · 2017 · +0.5 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 Tommy Thompson 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
Shooting Star
One or two seasons that define the entire career — brief but incandescent. Peak 2017, 10 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: 2020 · 0.26 goals + assists per 90 across 1,039 minutes.
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Gave the San Jose Earthquakes an entire corpus-attributed career — 11 seasons (2014–2024), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.