Jackson Irvine
FC St. Pauli · Midfielder · Australia · 2,340 min
Ballity Verdict
What makes this player special?
Jackson Irvine is the kind of midfielder coaches build possession around. At FC St. Pauli, his real value is not goals or highlight assists — it is how cleanly he moves the team from safe zones into dangerous ones, almost never giving the ball away cheaply. Ballity's clearest read is box crasher: he controls games more than he decides them.
Beyond the headline job, Irvine remains plausible as deep-lying playmaker. The secondary roles matter for how a coach can reorganise without changing the XI entirely.
On the pitch he has actually been used as CM (#8) / DM (#6). That matters: skill-set breadth is one thing; demonstrated deployment is another. Irvine's authenticity claim starts from those minutes, not from a role board alone.
There are no major weakness flags screaming from the current profile — which does not mean he is complete, only that the main story is the strength of what he already does.
Why Ballity says this
- Midfield / role totality: box crasher, deep-lying playmaker
- Shown minutes: CM (#8) / DM (#6)
- No major weakness flags in the current profile
Receipts
- · Player Profile
- · Role Breadth
- · Deployment authenticity
- · Sample · featured
Position
Midfielder
Appearances
26
Great+ roles
0
Age
33
Preferred foot
Right
Height
190 cm
Ballity insights
Peer context vs midfielders — how often they get the ball and what they do with it. Separate from role tiers above.
Usage rate
Share of team touches (non-GK) among midfielders with match data.
15.9% team touches
Peer band · Low
Pool percentile
36.7%
Also 46.2 touches/90 (season aggregate).
Efficiency
Output quality per action for midfielders.
56 score
Peer band · Minimal
Pool percentile
14.7%
Balance & structural weaknesses
How complete this player is on the position's job board — strengths and holes.
How we define this
Two-way = Great+ on ≥2 complementary axes. One-way = every other route Limited/closed. Weak routes = Average holes on complementary axes.
No Elite/Great axis on this position's job board, so no weakness flag.
Stat profile
Within Midfielder peers — percentile shape (not role scores).
Versatility Index
Precise 0–100 score — cross-group breadth (67%) plus within-group depth (33%), quality-scaled by tier. Distinct from the shape card below.
Index
24.0
Breadth 16.8 · Depth 7.2
- ·Midfielders: Box Crasher (Good), Deep-Lying Playmaker (Good)
- ·Forwards: Target Man (Great)
Versatility shape
Coarse directional pattern (Specialist / Dual-threat / Generalist) — not the 0–100 Index above.
Specialist
Good SpecialistDistinct Great+
0 Great+ roles total
Where he plays
Positions with deployment evidence — not statistical guesses.
Natural
Role translations
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Role-by-role detail
How each role is scored. Expand a row for a radar of role-shaped stats.
Similar players
Shape match across midfielder roles — cosine similarity of role scores (domestic leagues only). Slot 1 is the best same-league match; the rest are the next closest from the full pool.
Hugo Larsson
Eintracht Frankfurt · Bundesliga 24/25
Closest roles
Box CrasherΔ2
Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ7
Ball WinnerΔ2
Jefferson Lerma
Crystal Palace · PL 25/26
Closest roles
- Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ21
- Box CrasherΔ20
- Ball WinnerΔ0
Abdoulaye Touré
Le Havre · Ligue 1
Closest roles
- Box CrasherΔ7
- Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ13
- Ball WinnerΔ4