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Jess Carter
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- England
- Born:
- 1997-10-27 (age 28)
- Height:
- 164 cm
Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 51 GP · 4,254 min · 0 goals · 0 assists
Composite 2026: 0.488 — ranked 87 of 385 Composite page →
Standard Stats
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 | 2024 | Gotham FC | 979 | 0 | 0.06 | -0.06 | 0.01 | 1.12 | 1.63 | -0.51 | 0.10 | 2.15 | 0.20 | 0.378 |
| 2 | 2025 | Gotham FC | 2204 | 0 | 0.41 | -0.41 | 0.02 | -0.42 | 2.31 | -2.73 | -0.02 | 3.25 | 0.13 | 0.408 |
| 3 | 2026 | Gotham FC | 1071 | 0 | 0.79 | 1.26 | -0.47 | 0.07 | 2.18 | 0.18 | 0.347 | |||
| 3 Yrs | 4254 | 0 | 0.47 | -0.47 | 0.01 | 1.49 | 5.20 | -3.71 | 0.03 | 7.58 | 0.16 | 1.133 | ||
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 | 2024 | 0.017 | 1.141 | 0.175 | 0.399 | 111 | 338 | ||
| 2 | 2025 | -0.204 | -0.545 | 1.112 | 0.167 | 0.217 | 135 | 258 | |
| 3 | 2026 | -0.705 | -0.351 | -0.114 | 1.219 | 0.000 | 0.488 | 87 | 385 |
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 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 2 | 2025 | 26 | 4 | 22 | 4 | 22 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2026 | 13 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 2 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 52 | 17 | 35 | 16 | 33 | 2 | 1 | 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 | 0.774 |
| 2 | Annaïg Butel | Spirit | 2024 | Defender | 0.769 |
| 3 | Tara Rudd | Spirit | 2026 | Defender | 0.747 |
| 4 | Meaghan Nally | Thorns | 2022 | Defender | 0.726 |
| 5 | Becky Sauerbrunn | Thorns | 2024 | Defender | 0.722 |
| 6 | Savy King | Angel City | 2025 | Defender | 0.720 |
| 7 | Gabrielle Robinson | KC Current | 2024 | Defender | 0.718 |
| 8 | Kylie Nadaner | Pride | 2025 | Defender | 0.715 |
| 9 | Jenna Walker | KC Current | 2023 | Defender | 0.714 |
| 10 | Maitane López | Chicago Stars | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.713 |