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Carly Nelson

Position:: Goalkeeper
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 1998-02-11 (age 28)
Height:: 168 cm

Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 5 GP · 445 min · 0 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2024: 0.000 — ranked 274 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	2021	KC Current	1	1	90	0	0	0	0	0	1	68.8	0	0	0.00	0.00
2	2023	Pride	3	2	265	0	0	0	0	0		80.7	0	0	0.00	0.00
3	2024	Royals	1	1	90	0	0	0	0	0		95.6	0	0	0.00	0.00
	3 Yrs		5	4	445	0	0	0	0	0	1	82.9	0	0	0.00	0.00

Advanced Stats

Glossary

					Expected			VAEP				Threat
Rk	Season ▴	Team	Min	Gls	xG	G−xG	xG/90	VAEP	Off	Def	VAEP/90	xT	xT/90	DAxT
1	2021	KC Current	90	0				0.11	0.12	-0.01	0.11	0.35	0.35
2	2023	Pride	265	0				0.88	0.23	0.64	0.30	0.30	0.10
3	2024	Royals	90	0				0.06	0.10	-0.04	0.06	0.17	0.17
	3 Yrs		445	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.05	0.45	0.59	0.21	0.82	0.17	0.000

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
Rk	Season ▴	xG	Carries	Box Passes	Defense	GK	Composite	Rank	Pool
1	2023					0.000	0.000	185	240
2	2024					0.000	0.000	274	338

Goalkeeping

Glossary

Rk	Season ▴	Team	GP	Min	GA	Saves	Save%	CS	PSxG	PSxG−GA
1	2021	KC Current	1	90	0	0		1
2	2023	Pride	3	265	0	10	100.0		3.33	-0.67
3	2024	Royals	1	90	2	2	50.0		1.95	-0.05
	3 Yrs		5	445	2	12	85.7	1	5.28	-0.72

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	1	1																—
2	2023	3	3																—
3	2024	1	1																—
	3 Yrs	5	5																—

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	Ann-Katrin Berger	Gotham FC	2026	Goalkeeper	0.912
2	Cassie Miller	Gotham FC	2024	Goalkeeper	0.879
3	Angelina Anderson	Angel City	2024	Goalkeeper	0.872
4	Shae Yañez	San Diego Wave	2023	Goalkeeper	0.844
5	Mia Justus	Royals	2026	Goalkeeper	0.812
6	Sandy MacIver	Spirit	2026	Goalkeeper	0.807
7	Jordan Silkowitz	Bay	2026	Goalkeeper	0.793
8	Katelyn Rowland	Courage	2023	Goalkeeper	0.791
9	Mandy McGlynn	Royals	2024	Goalkeeper	0.791
10	DiDi Haracic	Angel City	2024	Goalkeeper	0.785