Players›Becky Sauerbrunn
Becky Sauerbrunn
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1985-06-06 (age 41)
- Height:
- 170 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 142 GP · 12,563 min · 4 goals · 3 assists
Composite 2024: 0.340 — ranked 126 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 | Kansas | 14 | 14 | 1329 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0.07 | 0.07 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Kansas | 22 | 22 | 2106 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.13 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Royals | 20 | 19 | 1875 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Royals | 14 | 14 | 1426 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.06 | 0.06 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Thorns | 17 | 16 | 1416 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 83.4 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 6 | 2022 | Thorns | 19 | 18 | 1504 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 88.1 | 2 | 0 | 0.06 | 0.12 |
| 7 | 2023 | Thorns | 10 | 9 | 671 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 82.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 8 | 2024 | Thorns | 26 | 25 | 2236 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 89.8 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 8 Yrs | 142 | 137 | 12563 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 17 | 33 | 87.2 | 9 | 0 | 0.03 | 0.05 | ||
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 | Kansas | 1329 | 1 | 0.31 | 0.69 | 0.02 | 2.58 | 2.77 | -0.20 | 0.17 | 3.17 | 0.21 | 0.391 |
| 2 | 2017 | Kansas | 2106 | 1 | 0.14 | 0.86 | 0.01 | 4.64 | 4.66 | -0.03 | 0.20 | 6.22 | 0.27 | 1.097 |
| 3 | 2018 | Royals | 1875 | 0 | 0.07 | -0.07 | 0.00 | 1.27 | 2.19 | -0.92 | 0.06 | 3.99 | 0.19 | 0.646 |
| 4 | 2019 | Royals | 1426 | 1 | 0.14 | 0.86 | 0.01 | 1.43 | 3.02 | -1.59 | 0.09 | 3.49 | 0.22 | 0.356 |
| 5 | 2021 | Thorns | 1416 | 0 | 0.10 | -0.10 | 0.01 | 2.43 | 2.65 | -0.23 | 0.15 | 3.10 | 0.20 | 0.290 |
| 6 | 2022 | Thorns | 1504 | 1 | 0.79 | 0.21 | 0.05 | 2.85 | 3.66 | -0.81 | 0.17 | 2.79 | 0.17 | 0.342 |
| 7 | 2023 | Thorns | 671 | 0 | 0.20 | -0.20 | 0.03 | 0.55 | 0.89 | -0.34 | 0.07 | 1.14 | 0.15 | 0.113 |
| 8 | 2024 | Thorns | 2236 | 0 | 0.76 | -0.76 | 0.03 | 3.55 | 3.67 | -0.12 | 0.14 | 4.57 | 0.18 | 0.479 |
| 8 Yrs | 12563 | 4 | 2.51 | 1.49 | 0.02 | 19.30 | 23.51 | -4.24 | 0.14 | 28.47 | 0.20 | 3.714 | ||
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 | 1.572 | 0.683 | 1.505 | 0.199 | 0.000 | 0.631 | 35 | 247 |
| 2 | 2023 | 1.230 | 1.291 | 1.817 | -0.709 | 0.219 | 131 | 240 | |
| 3 | 2024 | 0.319 | 1.251 | 2.524 | -0.720 | 0.340 | 126 | 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 | 14 | 14 | 14 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 22 | 22 | 22 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 19 | 19 | 19 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 14 | 14 | 14 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | 2020 | 4 | 4 | 4 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | 2021 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 7 | 2022 | 18 | 18 | 2 | 16 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 8 | 2023 | 9 | 9 | 9 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | 2024 | 27 | 27 | 27 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 9 Yrs | 146 | 146 | 2 | 143 | 1 | 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 | Annaïg Butel | Spirit | 2024 | Defender | 0.933 |
| 2 | Kaleigh Riehl | Royals | 2024 | Defender | 0.929 |
| 3 | Kayla Sharples | Bay | 2024 | Defender | 0.928 |
| 4 | Jen Beattie | Bay | 2024 | Defender | 0.916 |
| 5 | Savy King | Angel City | 2025 | Defender | 0.909 |
| 6 | Abby Erceg | Racing Lou | 2024 | Defender | 0.905 |
| 7 | Katie Lind | Dash | 2025 | Defender | 0.893 |
| 8 | Megan Reid | Angel City | 2024 | Defender | 0.888 |
| 9 | Kylie Nadaner | Pride | 2025 | Defender | 0.886 |
| 10 | Stine Ballisager Pedersen | KC Current | 2024 | Defender | 0.884 |