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Desiree Scott

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: Canada
Born:: 1987-07-31 (age 38)
Height:: 156 cm

Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 118 GP · 9,697 min · 0 goals · 2 assists

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	1325	0	0	0	7	4	6		2	0	0.00	0.00
2	2017	Kansas	21	20	1920	0	2	0	7	5	6		0	0	0.00	0.09
3	2018	Royals	21	20	1936	0	0	0	4	2	5		2	0	0.00	0.00
4	2019	Royals	17	17	1712	0	0	0	5	4	5		0	0	0.00	0.00
5	2021	KC Current	12	11	908	0	0	0	0	0	4	78.5	0	0	0.00	0.00
6	2022	KC Current	21	20	1762	0	0	0	3	1	3	79.6	3	1	0.00	0.00
7	2024	KC Current	12		134	0	0	0	0	0		80.0	0	0	0.00	0.00
	7 Yrs		118	102	9697	0	2	0	26	16	29	79.2	7	1	0.00	0.02

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	2016	Kansas	1325	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.14	0.95	0.19	0.08	1.39	0.09	0.671
2	2017	Kansas	1920	0	0.03	-0.03	0.00	2.43	2.63	-0.20	0.11	2.94	0.14	0.965
3	2018	Royals	1936	0	0.06	-0.06	0.00	1.18	1.17	0.01	0.05	1.80	0.08	0.885
4	2019	Royals	1712	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.47	1.45	0.02	0.08	1.74	0.09	0.609
5	2021	KC Current	908	0	0.03	-0.03	0.00	0.50	0.81	-0.31	0.05	1.04	0.10	0.292
6	2022	KC Current	1762	0	0.19	-0.19	0.01	-0.12	0.93	-1.04	-0.01	1.31	0.07	0.721
7	2024	KC Current	134	0				0.02	0.08	-0.06	0.01	0.10	0.07	0.076
	7 Yrs		9697	0	0.31	-0.31	0.00	6.62	8.02	-1.39	0.06	10.32	0.10	4.219

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				1	12		1				1	13					an 8, played like a 6
2	2017	20				1	19						3	17					an 8, played like a 6
3	2018	20				2	18						2	16	2				an 8, played like a 6
4	2019	17				6	11						1	16					an 8, played like a 6
5	2021	13				8	4		1			1	1	11					played her role
6	2022	27				4	22	1					4	22	1				an 8, played like a 6
	6 Yrs	111				22	86	1	2			1	12	95	3				an 8, played like a 6

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10	Malia Berkely	Courage	2022	Defender	0.615