Players›Julia Lester
Julia Lester
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1998-01-16 (age 28)
- Height:
- 165 cm
Career (2022–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 38 GP · 2,885 min · 0 goals · 0 assists
Composite 2025: 1.698 — ranked 1 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 | 2022 | Racing Lou | 20 | 17 | 1554 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 80.4 | 4 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2 | 2023 | Racing Lou | 13 | 13 | 1120 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 85.2 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 3 | 2024 | Reign | 5 | 2 | 211 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 89.2 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 4 | 2025 | Reign | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 4 Yrs | 38 | 32 | 2885 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 83.0 | 6 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
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 | 2022 | Racing Lou | 1554 | 0 | 0.05 | -0.05 | 0.00 | 1.14 | 2.04 | -0.90 | 0.07 | 2.99 | 0.17 | 0.452 |
| 2 | 2023 | Racing Lou | 1120 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | 1.27 | 1.94 | -0.67 | 0.10 | 2.01 | 0.16 | 0.217 |
| 3 | 2024 | Reign | 211 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.27 | -0.20 | 0.03 | 0.39 | 0.17 | 0.048 |
| 4 | 2025 | Reign | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 4 Yrs | 2885 | 0 | 0.11 | -0.11 | 0.00 | 2.47 | 4.25 | -1.77 | 0.08 | 5.39 | 0.17 | 0.717 | ||
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 | -0.440 | 1.011 | 1.022 | 0.177 | 0.451 | 64 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2023 | -0.590 | 1.234 | 0.854 | 1.531 | 1.140 | 5 | 240 | |
| 3 | 2024 | -0.736 | 1.231 | 2.063 | 1.513 | 1.481 | 3 | 338 | |
| 4 | 2025 | -0.627 | 1.416 | 2.436 | 1.641 | 1.698 | 1 | 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 | 2022 | 21 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 18 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2023 | 18 | 18 | 18 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2024 | 4 | 4 | 4 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 43 | 6 | 37 | 3 | 40 | 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 | Kaleigh Riehl | San Diego Wave | 2023 | Defender | 0.883 |
| 2 | Croix Soto | KC Current | 2023 | Defender | 0.871 |
| 3 | Sam Hiatt | Thorns | 2025 | Defender | 0.863 |
| 4 | Maycee Bell | Courage | 2025 | Defender | 0.859 |
| 5 | Elizabeth Ball | KC Current | 2023 | Defender | 0.854 |
| 6 | Abby Dahlkemper | Dash | 2021 | Defender | 0.843 |
| 7 | Taylor Maree Leach | KC Current | 2021 | Defender | 0.831 |
| 8 | Kate Del Fava | Royals | 2024 | Defender | 0.828 |
| 9 | Rafaelle | Pride | 2024 | Defender | 0.825 |
| 10 | Katie Lind | Dash | 2022 | Defender | 0.811 |