Bobby Boswell, D.C. United’s captain, has been a lynchpin of the team’s revival from the disaster of the 2013 season. Brought in during that offseason through the Re-Entry Draft, he immediately stepped into the captain’s role and United has made the playoffs in each of the three seasons of his return. After placing second in Defender of the Year voting in 2014, Boswell followed it up with another solid season in 2015
In 2016, however, he took a step back through both the statistical test and the eye test. Soccer statistics are notoriously incapable of painting the full picture of a player, but they can be useful when comparing the same player against himself or in conjunction with the eye test; so we did both.