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Anna Heilferty
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1999-04-17 (age 27)
- Height:
- 163 cm
Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 50 GP · 2,512 min · 0 goals · 2 assists
Composite 2024: 0.077 — ranked 242 of 338 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 | 2021 | Spirit | 893 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | 0.72 | 1.55 | -0.82 | 0.07 | 2.15 | 0.22 | 0.242 |
| 2 | 2022 | Spirit | 1486 | 0 | 0.28 | -0.28 | 0.02 | -0.39 | 0.26 | -0.65 | -0.02 | 3.39 | 0.21 | 0.376 |
| 3 | 2024 | Spirit | 70 | 0 | -0.30 | -0.28 | -0.02 | -0.39 | 0.23 | 0.30 | 0.026 | |||
| 4 | 2025 | Dash | 63 | 0 | 0.10 | -0.10 | 0.14 | -0.04 | -0.02 | -0.02 | -0.06 | 0.13 | 0.19 | 0.069 |
| 4 Yrs | 2512 | 0 | 0.41 | -0.41 | 0.01 | -0.01 | 1.51 | -1.51 | -0.00 | 5.90 | 0.21 | 0.713 | ||
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 | 2024 | -1.495 | 1.365 | -0.774 | 0.641 | 0.077 | 242 | 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 | 2021 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 2 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2022 | 22 | 16 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 2 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 2 Yrs | 31 | 24 | 7 | 20 | 1 | 8 | 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 | Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic | Reign | 2025 | Forward | 0.605 |
| 2 | Amanda Allen | Pride | 2024 | Forward | 0.599 |
| 3 | Bruninha | Gotham FC | 2024 | Defender | 0.564 |
| 4 | Taylor Otto | Racing Lou | 2021 | Defender | 0.562 |
| 5 | Celia Jiménez | Pride | 2023 | Defender | 0.559 |
| 6 | Jasmyne Spencer | Angel City | 2024 | Defender | 0.551 |
| 7 | Maitane López | Gotham FC | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.550 |
| 8 | Mandy Freeman | Gotham FC | 2023 | Defender | 0.548 |
| 9 | Kate Del Fava | KC Current | 2023 | Defender | 0.543 |
| 10 | Ellie Bravo-Young | KC Current | 2025 | Defender | 0.536 |