Built by people who've been on the sideline — and on the field.
Shortlistr was founded by former D1 players with input from college coaches & professional soccer data analysts helping to design our platform to fix their pain points. Our team has spent over 50 years combined inside NCAA soccer.
Why we exist: The pro game has had purpose-built analytics tools for over a decade. The college game hasn't. Coaches and players in NCAA soccer have been forced to evaluate talent through spreadsheets, scattered DMs, and pro-tier tools that don't understand strength of schedule, conference parity, or the transfer portal.
What we built: A platform catering to the NCAA. Adjusted metrics so goals against a 300 RPI team aren't valued the same way against a top 10 school would be. Our custom designed tools, rankings and modules make things clearer and easier for college coaches and players.
Frequently Asked Questions
Shortlistr is an analytics and recruiting platform built specifically for college soccer. It pairs a free, public database of every NCAA Division I men's and women's program — team and conference strength ratings, player profiles, rankings, and transfer-portal tracking — with tools that connect college coaches, players, agents, and clubs directly. The pro game has had purpose-built analytics for over a decade; we built the same depth for the NCAA.
SCI is our headline player rating. It rolls every on-ball action a player makes — passes, shots, dribbles, defensive recoveries, set-piece deliveries — into a single 0–100 score that reflects how much they actually moved their team toward winning. It is adjusted for the college game: a goal against a top-10 team counts for more than a goal against a #300 team, so opponent strength, conference, and game state are all built in.
Shortlistr covers NCAA Division I soccer across both the men's and women's games and every D1 conference. Every D1 match is ingested and turned into team strength ratings, conference rankings, player profiles, and playing-style archetypes.
Our database updates every two hours during the season and rebuilds nightly. Every NCAA Division I match — results, box scores, and full event-level detail — is ingested, checked for coverage, and pushed to the rankings, player profiles, and portal pages. When the feed misses a match, the pipeline detects the gap and backfills it automatically.
RPI is a record-based metric built on win percentages and opponents' win percentages. Shortlistr Team Strength is a quality-based rating — it looks at how teams actually played: results, scoreline, home or away, the quality of chances created and conceded, and the strength of the opponent. Two teams with identical records can land at different Team Strength scores because one out-played, out-chanced, or beat tougher opposition along the way.
Yes — the College Hub, rankings, and player-profile snapshots are free to browse. Exact 0–100 scores, full team-strength history, head-to-head comparisons, and CSV export are part of the Pro · College DB plan. Coaches, players, agents, and clubs each get their own tools layered on top of the free public database.