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Heather Stainbrook

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 2001-03-14 (age 25)
Height:: 163 cm

Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 24 GP · 1,019 min · 1 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2025: 0.160 — ranked 150 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	2024	Spirit	13	6	585	1	0	0	4	2	8	75.8	2	0	0.15	0.15
2	2025	Spirit	11	6	434	0	0	0	4	3	1	74.1	0	0	0.00	0.00
	2 Yrs		24	12	1019	1	0	0	8	5	9	75.2	2	0	0.09	0.09

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	2024	Spirit	585	1	0.89	0.11	0.14	-0.53	-0.14	-0.38	-0.08	0.62	0.10	0.130
2	2025	Spirit	434	0	0.94	-0.94	0.19	-0.53	-0.29	-0.24	-0.11	0.51	0.11	0.130
	2 Yrs		1019	1	1.83	-0.83	0.16	-1.06	-0.43	-0.62	-0.09	1.13	0.10	0.260

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	2025	0.317	-0.941	-0.482	1.640		0.160	150	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	2024	8				1	6	1						4	1	1	2		an 8, played like a 6
2	2025	6				1	5						1	3				2	an 8, played like a 6
	2 Yrs	14				2	11	1					1	7	1	1	2	2	an 8, played like a 6

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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	Macey Hodge	Angel City	2025	Midfielder	0.673
2	Angharad James-Turner	Reign	2025	Midfielder	0.607
3	Chloe Ricketts	Spirit	2025	Midfielder	0.592
4	Agnes Nyberg	Royals	2024	Midfielder	0.586
5	Sarah Weber	Racing Lou	2025	Forward	0.581
6	Brianna Elizabeth Visalli	Dash	2022	Midfielder	0.579
7	Dana Foederer	Royals	2024	Midfielder	0.564
8	Melissa Kössler	Denver	2026	Forward	0.540
9	Bea Franklin	Chicago Stars	2025	Midfielder	0.519
10	Marissa Sheva	Thorns	2024	Midfielder	0.519