Players›Alyssa Malonson
Alyssa Malonson
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1999-04-09 (age 27)
- Height:
- 160 cm
Career (2022–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 53 GP · 3,437 min · 1 goals · 5 assists
Composite 2025: 0.390 — ranked 89 of 258 Composite page →
Standard Stats
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 | 2022 | Reign | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 2 | 2023 | Reign | 54 | 0 | 0.07 | 0.27 | -0.19 | 0.12 | 0.21 | 0.35 | 0.018 | |||
| 3 | 2024 | Bay | 1471 | 0 | 0.22 | -0.22 | 0.01 | -0.40 | 1.45 | -1.85 | -0.02 | 4.56 | 0.28 | 0.760 |
| 4 | 2025 | Bay | 1912 | 1 | 0.69 | 0.31 | 0.03 | 0.36 | 1.94 | -1.58 | 0.02 | 5.70 | 0.27 | 0.932 |
| 5 | 2026 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 5 Yrs | 3437 | 1 | 0.91 | 0.09 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 3.66 | -3.62 | 0.00 | 10.47 | 0.27 | 1.710 | ||
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 185 | 247 |
| 2 | 2023 | 0.894 | 0.571 | -0.230 | 0.326 | 103 | 240 | ||
| 3 | 2024 | -0.373 | 1.357 | 0.608 | -1.157 | 0.136 | 221 | 338 | |
| 4 | 2025 | -0.086 | 1.899 | 0.433 | -0.674 | 0.390 | 89 | 258 | |
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 | 2023 | 2 | 2 | 2 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2024 | 18 | 18 | 18 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2025 | 21 | 20 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 2 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 41 | 40 | 1 | 38 | 1 | 2 | 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 | M.A. Vignola | Angel City | 2025 | Defender | 0.881 |
| 2 | Kerry Abello | Pride | 2024 | Defender | 0.879 |
| 3 | Feli Rauch | Courage | 2024 | Defender | 0.878 |
| 4 | Lilly Reale | Gotham FC | 2025 | Defender | 0.867 |
| 5 | Marie Müller | Thorns | 2024 | Defender | 0.863 |
| 6 | Kylie Nadaner | Pride | 2023 | Defender | 0.861 |
| 7 | Kristen McNabb | San Diego Wave | 2022 | Defender | 0.859 |
| 8 | Izzy Rodriguez | KC Current | 2023 | Defender | 0.858 |
| 9 | Reyna Reyes | Thorns | 2025 | Defender | 0.858 |
| 10 | Imani Dorsey | Gotham FC | 2022 | Defender | 0.856 |