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Claire Emslie

Claire Emslie

Position:
Forward
Nationality:
Scotland
Born:
1994-03-08 (age 32)
Height:
171 cm

Career (2019–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 80 GP · 5,604 min · 13 goals · 9 assists

Composite 2026: -0.506 — ranked 328 of 385 Composite page →

Standard Stats

Glossary
Playing TimePerformancePer 90
RkSeasonTeamGPGSMinGlsAstPKShSoTKPPass%CrdYCrdRGls/90G+A/90
12019Pride119906010201115400.000.10
22022Angel City1097833001612866.5000.340.34
32023Angel City2017134735123103569.2000.200.53
42024Angel City2624197072328224070.1300.320.41
52025Angel City875240101071769.8000.000.17
62026Angel City57400000375.0000.000.00
6 Yrs806656041394976211869.4700.210.35

Advanced Stats

Glossary
ExpectedVAEPThreat
RkSeasonTeamMinGlsxGG−xGxG/90VAEPOffDefVAEP/90xTxT/90DAxT
12019Pride90601.12-1.120.11-0.87-0.32-0.55-0.092.060.200.169
22022Angel City78331.831.170.210.510.81-0.310.061.540.180.043
32023Angel City134733.48-0.480.232.182.59-0.410.154.860.320.260
42024Angel City197075.771.230.262.963.90-0.930.146.830.310.258
52025Angel City52401.05-1.050.180.250.39-0.140.041.960.340.096
62026Angel City7400.07-0.070.090.130.14-0.010.160.991.210.036
6 Yrs56041313.32-0.320.215.167.51-2.350.0818.240.290.862

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
RkSeasonxGCarriesBox PassesDefenseGKCompositeRankPool
120220.865-0.1700.127-1.1950.218121247
220230.522-0.2180.360-1.5610.008182240
320240.7010.4720.608-1.9410.238177338
420250.1900.498-0.115-1.849-0.070253258
52026-0.531-0.6770.119-0.5530.000-0.506328385

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)
RkSeasonStartsGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTRead
120199972played her role
2202292754a 9, played like a winger
3202319217181played her role
420242712612222played her role
520257716played her role
5 Yrs71361713589played her role

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

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