Players›Emily Menges
Emily Menges
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1992-07-28 (age 33)
- Height:
- 170 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 154 GP · 13,702 min · 0 goals · 3 assists
Composite 2025: 0.684 — ranked 40 of 258 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 | Thorns | 20 | 20 | 1908 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Thorns | 23 | 23 | 2169 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Thorns | 15 | 15 | 1391 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Thorns | 19 | 19 | 1859 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Thorns | 22 | 21 | 1839 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 84.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.05 |
| 6 | 2022 | Thorns | 5 | 4 | 366 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 86.9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 7 | 2023 | Thorns | 18 | 17 | 1521 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 83.9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 8 | 2024 | Bay | 27 | 26 | 2389 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 86.3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.08 |
| 9 | 2025 | Bay | 5 | 3 | 260 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 91.2 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 10 | 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 10 Yrs | 154 | 148 | 13702 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 19 | 85.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.02 | ||
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 | Thorns | 1908 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.09 | 1.98 | 0.11 | 0.10 | 3.74 | 0.18 | 0.585 |
| 2 | 2017 | Thorns | 2169 | 0 | 2.18 | 2.60 | -0.42 | 0.09 | 4.50 | 0.19 | 0.857 | |||
| 3 | 2018 | Thorns | 1391 | 0 | 1.26 | 1.65 | -0.39 | 0.08 | 2.89 | 0.19 | 0.402 | |||
| 4 | 2019 | Thorns | 1859 | 0 | 1.94 | 2.84 | -0.90 | 0.09 | 4.67 | 0.23 | 0.383 | |||
| 5 | 2021 | Thorns | 1839 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | 3.95 | 4.00 | -0.05 | 0.19 | 4.66 | 0.23 | 0.270 |
| 6 | 2022 | Thorns | 366 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.01 | 1.46 | 1.57 | -0.11 | 0.36 | 0.80 | 0.20 | 0.099 |
| 7 | 2023 | Thorns | 1521 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | 1.14 | 2.75 | -1.61 | 0.07 | 2.94 | 0.17 | 0.332 |
| 8 | 2024 | Bay | 2389 | 0 | 0.21 | -0.21 | 0.01 | 2.23 | 4.04 | -1.81 | 0.08 | 5.13 | 0.19 | 0.426 |
| 9 | 2025 | Bay | 260 | 0 | 0.73 | 0.50 | 0.24 | 0.25 | 0.73 | 0.25 | 0.034 | |||
| 10 | 2026 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 10 Yrs | 13702 | 0 | 0.30 | -0.30 | 0.00 | 16.98 | 21.93 | -4.94 | 0.11 | 30.06 | 0.20 | 3.388 | ||
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 | -0.353 | -0.551 | 0.215 | 0.380 | 0.014 | 183 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2023 | -0.496 | -0.389 | 1.243 | 1.270 | 1.009 | 12 | 240 | |
| 3 | 2024 | -0.526 | -0.304 | 1.759 | 0.952 | 0.858 | 25 | 338 | |
| 4 | 2025 | -0.733 | -0.127 | 1.617 | 0.558 | 0.684 | 40 | 258 | |
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 | 21 | 21 | 21 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 25 | 25 | 2 | 23 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 17 | 17 | 17 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 20 | 20 | 20 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | 2020 | 8 | 8 | 8 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | 2021 | 21 | 21 | 21 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | 2022 | 10 | 10 | 10 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | 2023 | 21 | 21 | 21 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | 2024 | 27 | 27 | 27 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 2025 | 3 | 3 | 3 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 10 Yrs | 173 | 173 | 2 | 171 | 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 | Phoebe McClernon | Reign | 2026 | Defender | 0.871 |
| 2 | Becky Sauerbrunn | Thorns | 2022 | Defender | 0.870 |
| 3 | Tara Rudd | Spirit | 2026 | Defender | 0.861 |
| 4 | Kylie Nadaner | Pride | 2025 | Defender | 0.854 |
| 5 | Esme Morgan | Spirit | 2024 | Defender | 0.854 |
| 6 | Kaleigh Riehl | Royals | 2024 | Defender | 0.848 |
| 7 | Annaïg Butel | Spirit | 2024 | Defender | 0.847 |
| 8 | Savy King | Angel City | 2025 | Defender | 0.791 |
| 9 | Jen Beattie | Bay | 2024 | Defender | 0.786 |
| 10 | Cheyenne Shorts | San Diego Wave | 2023 | Defender | 0.774 |