What is recorded on every point?
We log every touch until the ball hits the sand.
The result: each match becomes ~150 structured events, ready to cross with any dimension (athlete, team, tournament, stage).
Every point tells a story
Areia Score was born from the conviction that footvolley deserves the same level of statistical analysis as other professional sports. Behind every scoreline there is a sequence of decisions (attack direction, body part, serve quality, block reading) and our job is to capture the layer that the bare result hides.
937Scouted matches
29,641Points recorded
440Athletes in the database
Numbers from the production database, not a projection. Every match was tagged rally by rally and reviewed before becoming a public number.
How does a footvolley match become data?
- 1
Rally-by-rally scouting
A trained scouter watches the video and tags every rally: who touched the ball, with which body part, in which quadrant it landed and how the point ended.
- 2
Review
A second pair of eyes checks the tagging against the video before any number reaches the site. Anything that disagrees goes back to the scouter.
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Publishing and auditing
The match enters the public database and recomputes rankings, averages and heatmaps. From then on any signed-in person can request a review of the match or of a single point.
What are quadrants Q1 to Q9?
We divide the opponent's court into 9 regions. Every attack is logged by its landing quadrant, not by its origin. This reveals attacking tendencies, the most targeted zones and defensive weaknesses.
Attacker's view: back line (Q1-Q3) closest to the opponent's net, side lines (Q3, Q6, Q9) on the right.
Q9Q6Q3Q8Q5Q2Q7Q4Q1
Why is scouting done after the match, not live?
Our scouters watch the video and tag it point by point. This choice is deliberate: it guarantees precision, allows review and removes the pressure of tagging in real time.
Every match is checked by a reviewer before the data enters the public database. Classification mistakes happen, and there are ways to request a review of entire games or corrections to specific points.
How do I request a match review?
Every match can be audited. Any logged-in user can open a review request for an entire game or flag corrections to specific points.
The request joins the reviewers' queue: they check the video, compare it with the original scouts and decide whether to adjust or keep them. Approved changes rewrite the public data and are recorded in the game's history.
This closed loop is what keeps Areia Score's numbers trustworthy even as the volume of matches grows.
Where we are heading
Comparative heatmaps between teamsOverlay the attack zones of two teams to understand a head-to-head matchup: where one hunts for points, where the other is vulnerable.
National rankingA scoring system that factors in tournament tier, prize money and stage reached, not just W/L.
Frequently asked questions
What is scouting in footvolley?
Scouting is the point-by-point record of a match: who touched the ball, with which body part, in which quadrant it landed and how the point ended. On Areia Score every scout is logged by a trained scouter and checked by a reviewer before it is published.
What are quadrants Q1 to Q9?
They are the nine equal regions the opponent's court is divided into, numbered from the attacker's view: Q1 to Q3 just past the net, Q4 to Q6 in the middle and Q7 to Q9 on the baseline. Every attack is recorded by the quadrant where the ball landed, not where it came from.
How is the player rating calculated?
The rating runs from 0 to 10 and comes from the scout: attack points, errors, digs and blocks, weighted by match volume. With few matches the rating stays close to the middle of the scale and only moves away as the sample grows.
Is scouting done live or after the match?
After the match, from the video. It is a deliberate choice: it gives precision, allows review and removes the pressure of logging in real time. When a live score shows on the site it comes from a simplified log that is redone in the full scout.
How do I request a correction of a point or a match?
Any logged-in user opens a review request on the match page, for the whole match or for specific points. The request joins the reviewers' queue; they check the video and decide. An approved change rewrites the public data and stays in the match history.
Can Areia Score data be cited?
Yes. The numbers can be cited with credit to Areia Score and a link to the source page. The canonical URL of every page is the Portuguese one; the English version lives under /en.
Why does this matter for footvolley?
Brazilian footvolley produces world-class performances every weekend, but the story of those games vanishes by Sunday night. Without structured data there is no long-term narrative, no reliable ranking, no foundation for technical evolution.
Areia Score is the record that was missing: granular, public and cumulative.
Transparency is part of the product
Want to know who produces the numbers, where automation comes in and how corrections are requested? It is all written down.