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Caiya Hanks

Caiya Hanks

Position:
Forward
Nationality:
USA
Born:
2004-09-26 (age 21)
Height:
163 cm

Career (2025–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 11 GP · 639 min · 2 goals · 1 assists

Composite 2025: 0.663 — ranked 44 of 258 Composite page →

Standard Stats

Glossary
Playing TimePerformancePer 90
RkSeason ▴TeamGPGSMinGlsAstPKShSoTKPPass%CrdYCrdRGls/90G+A/90
12025Thorns117639210159975.8100.280.42
22026000000000
2 Yrs117639210159975.8100.280.42

Advanced Stats

Glossary
ExpectedVAEPThreat
RkSeason ▴TeamMinGlsxGG−xGxG/90VAEPOffDefVAEP/90xTxT/90DAxT
12025Thorns63921.320.680.191.882.00-0.120.261.670.240.174
2202600
2 Yrs63921.320.680.191.882.00-0.120.261.670.240.174

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.

Glossary
Components
RkSeason ▴xGCarriesBox PassesDefenseGKCompositeRankPool
120250.3541.7380.7370.2340.66344258

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)
RkSeason ▴StartsGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTRead
1202576161played her role
1 Yr76161played her role

Similar Players

Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.

RkPlayerTeamSeasonPosSimilarity
1DudinhaSan Diego Wave2025Forward0.894
2Kiki Van ZantenDash2025Midfielder0.861
3Racheal KundananjiBay2024Forward0.850
4Rosemonde KouassiSpirit2024Forward0.841
5Temwa ChawingaKC Current2024Forward0.841
6Julie DoylePride2023Midfielder0.838
7Alyssa ThompsonAngel City2024Forward0.818
8Morgan WeaverThorns2023Midfielder0.811
9Thembi KgatlanaRacing Lou2023Midfielder0.811
10Kealia WattChicago Stars2021Forward0.802