The best roster is not always the best team. The gap between them is the truth.
Team KR is the squad read through the actual scheme, reported beside the raw talent so the gap can speak.
The raw squad and the real team are two numbers.
Talent KR is the fit-blind aggregate, each player's OVERALL weighted by minutes and nothing else. Team KR reads that same talent through the real scheme, coverage, and fit. The difference between them is the single most useful thing you can know about a squad. Two composite clubs, similar talent, opposite gaps.
Same neighbourhood of talent, opposite teams. Club A is a warning: pay for stars, field a lesser side, because the scheme cannot use them. Club B is the model: worth more than the sum of its parts. One number hides which club you are, and the gap is exactly what a sporting director needs to see. Talent is what you bought. Team is what you built. The distance between them is the coaching and the fit.
Illustrative engine read on the real Talent-KR-versus-Team-KR structure (Talent KR fit-blind minutes-weighted; Team KR read through the scheme; the gap surfaces fit quality). Composite clubs, demonstration figures.
One missing piece costs the whole shape.
When a system needs a load-bearing piece the squad lacks, the value is not lost at that one spot. A high press with no ball-winning midfield is not just a weak holding role: the press gets bypassed, the back line is exposed, the whole structure leaks. The cascade fires a structural override across every player in the scheme. Composite high-press side, no rotation ball-winner.
Docking only the holding midfielder would badly under-read the damage. The whole shape depends on the ball-winner who is not there, so the whole shape pays. The cascade names the structural gap and prices its true, compound cost, rather than pretending the loss is contained to one position. A team is a structure, not a list, and a structure fails where it is load-bearing.
Illustrative engine read on the real Scheme Fit Cascade (a critical-missing structural override applying a compound penalty across every dependent position, not just the missing role). Composite squad, demonstration figures.
Checked against the results, honest about how it breaks.
Before the Team KR is trusted, it is checked against the club's actual record. The fit cascade corrects mismatches, but it is bounded, so a gap larger than its reach is not a fit problem, it is a signal the player ratings are inflated, and the fix is upstream. The diagnostics that follow never move the number, they expose how it breaks. Composite side, a Team KR running ahead of its results.
The number is never allowed to drift from what actually happened. A gap the cascade cannot reach is a flag to fix the inputs, not a licence to fudge the output, and the fragility diagnostics sit alongside the headline so a strong Team KR never hides a squad that breaks the moment one player is missing. A team rating you cannot check against the table, and that hides how it breaks, is not worth having.
Illustrative engine read on the real Pre-Cascade Reality Check (record-mapped tier band, the inflation flag) and the Fragility diagnostics (single point of failure, over-reliance, thin squad). Composite squad, demonstration figures.
A squad is a structure read through a scheme, and the engine shows the talent, the team, and the gap between them.
Read the roster. Then read the team.
Raw talent separated from the real team, scheme breakdown priced as the compound loss it is, the number tethered to the table.