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Abby Erceg
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- New Zealand
- Born:
- 1989-11-20 (age 36)
- Height:
- 177 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 171 GP · 15,867 min · 10 goals · 7 assists
Composite 2024: 0.910 — ranked 22 of 338 Composite page →
Standard Stats
| Playing Time | Performance | Per 90 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Team | GP | GS | Min | Gls | Ast | PK | Sh | SoT | KP | Pass% | CrdY | CrdR | Gls/90 | G+A/90 |
| 1 | 2016 | Flash | 17 | 16 | 1546 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0.12 | 0.17 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Courage | 22 | 22 | 2106 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0.04 | 0.13 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Courage | 24 | 24 | 2298 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0.08 | 0.16 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Courage | 20 | 20 | 1967 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.05 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Courage | 21 | 21 | 1920 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 86.9 | 2 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| 6 | 2022 | Courage | 19 | 19 | 1710 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 88.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| 7 | 2023 | Racing Lou | 22 | 22 | 1980 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 88.8 | 1 | 0 | 0.09 | 0.09 |
| 8 | 2024 | Racing Lou | 26 | 26 | 2340 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 91.4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.08 |
| 8 Yrs | 171 | 170 | 15867 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 115 | 52 | 45 | 88.9 | 8 | 2 | 0.06 | 0.10 | ||
Advanced Stats
| Expected | VAEP | Threat | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Team | Min | Gls | xG | G−xG | xG/90 | VAEP | Off | Def | VAEP/90 | xT | xT/90 | DAxT |
| 1 | 2016 | Flash | 1546 | 2 | 1.20 | 0.80 | 0.07 | 1.58 | 2.22 | -0.63 | 0.09 | 2.27 | 0.13 | 0.394 |
| 2 | 2017 | Courage | 2106 | 1 | 0.96 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.35 | 1.11 | -0.76 | 0.01 | 2.96 | 0.13 | 0.728 |
| 3 | 2018 | Courage | 2298 | 2 | 2.22 | -0.22 | 0.09 | 3.85 | 3.39 | 0.45 | 0.15 | 4.06 | 0.16 | 0.693 |
| 4 | 2019 | Courage | 1967 | 1 | 1.41 | -0.41 | 0.06 | 1.30 | 2.51 | -1.21 | 0.06 | 2.83 | 0.13 | 0.482 |
| 5 | 2021 | Courage | 1920 | 1 | 1.57 | -0.57 | 0.07 | 3.05 | 3.38 | -0.32 | 0.14 | 4.34 | 0.20 | 0.401 |
| 6 | 2022 | Courage | 1710 | 1 | 0.69 | 0.31 | 0.04 | 3.93 | 4.47 | -0.55 | 0.21 | 3.54 | 0.19 | 0.399 |
| 7 | 2023 | Racing Lou | 1980 | 2 | 1.09 | 0.91 | 0.05 | 3.48 | 4.16 | -0.68 | 0.16 | 3.63 | 0.17 | 0.450 |
| 8 | 2024 | Racing Lou | 2340 | 0 | 0.39 | -0.39 | 0.01 | 1.68 | 2.34 | -0.66 | 0.06 | 3.80 | 0.15 | 0.482 |
| 8 Yrs | 15867 | 10 | 9.53 | 0.47 | 0.05 | 19.22 | 23.58 | -4.36 | 0.11 | 27.43 | 0.16 | 4.029 | ||
Composite Rating
Our overall player rating, unique to this site: five components — xG, ball carries, passes into the box, defensive value, and goalkeeping — combined into one score and averaged across every selection-model run of the season. Rank is her place among all rated players that year.
| Components | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | xG | Carries | Box Passes | Defense | GK | Composite | Rank | Pool |
| 1 | 2022 | 1.224 | -0.042 | 0.544 | 1.144 | 0.880 | 10 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2023 | 0.950 | -0.338 | 1.403 | 0.960 | 0.940 | 16 | 240 | |
| 3 | 2024 | 0.829 | -0.664 | 1.863 | 0.782 | 0.910 | 22 | 338 | |
Structural Roles
Start counts by role, per season — twice. Explicit is where the team sheet wrote her; Inferredis what a model reading only her on-ball events made of each start. The Read column states each season's verdict from the two most common roles.
| Explicit (Team Sheet) | Inferred (Event Data) | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Starts | GK | FB | CB | DM | CM | AM | W | ST | GK | FB | CB | DM | CM | AM | W | ST | Read |
| 1 | 2016 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 13 | an 8, played like a 6 | |||||||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 24 | 24 | 24 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 26 | 26 | 26 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 22 | 22 | 22 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | 2020 | 5 | 5 | 5 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | 2021 | 21 | 21 | 21 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | 2022 | 27 | 27 | 27 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | 2023 | 29 | 29 | 29 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | 2024 | 29 | 29 | 29 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 9 Yrs | 201 | 188 | 5 | 8 | 188 | 13 | played her role | ||||||||||||
Similar Players
Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.
| Rk | Player | Team | Season | Pos | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Becky Sauerbrunn | Thorns | 2024 | Defender | 0.905 |
| 2 | Kayla Sharples | Bay | 2024 | Defender | 0.889 |
| 3 | Megan Reid | Angel City | 2024 | Defender | 0.873 |
| 4 | Kaleigh Riehl | Royals | 2024 | Defender | 0.842 |
| 5 | Annaïg Butel | Spirit | 2024 | Defender | 0.841 |
| 6 | Katie Lind | Dash | 2025 | Defender | 0.837 |
| 7 | Jen Beattie | Bay | 2024 | Defender | 0.827 |
| 8 | Kylie Nadaner | Pride | 2025 | Defender | 0.827 |
| 9 | Meaghan Nally | Thorns | 2022 | Defender | 0.822 |
| 10 | Gabby Provenzano | Thorns | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.820 |