scorer vs player

scorer and player both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
scorer	Yes	No	No	No
player	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, player is a hypernym of scorer; that is, player is a word with a broader meaning than scorer:

Other hypernyms of scorer include participant.

scorer (noun)	player (noun)
a player who makes a score in a game or contest	a theatrical performer
a logger who marks trees to be felled	a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
an official who records the score during the progress of a game	someone who plays a music as a profession
	a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously
	someone who takes part in an activity