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Karlie Lema

Position:: Forward
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 2003-06-29 (age 23)
Height:: 178 cm

Career (2025–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 37 GP · 2,092 min · 4 goals · 1 assists

Composite 2026: 0.571 — ranked 73 of 385 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	2025	Bay	24	15	1332	2	1	0	21	8	12	74.4	2	0	0.14	0.20
2	2026	Bay	13	9	760	2	0	0	18	12	4	70.6	2	0	0.24	0.24
	2 Yrs		37	24	2092	4	1	0	39	20	16	73.2	4	0	0.17	0.22

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	2025	Bay	1332	2	1.81	0.19	0.12	-0.67	-0.07	-0.61	-0.05	1.33	0.09	0.197
2	2026	Bay	760	2	2.50	-0.50	0.30	-0.69	-0.20	-0.49	-0.08	2.54	0.30	0.138
	2 Yrs		2092	4	4.31	-0.31	0.19	-1.36	-0.27	-1.10	-0.06	3.87	0.17	0.335

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	0.580	0.831		-0.572		0.361	98	258
2	2026	0.473	1.080	-0.793	0.947	0.000	0.571	73	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	2025	15							8	7							8	7	played her role
2	2026	9							3	6							3	6	played her role
	2 Yrs	24							11	13							11	13	played her role

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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	Cali Jean Farquharson	Dash	2022	Forward	0.637
2	Ivonne Chacón	Chicago Stars	2025	Forward	0.584
3	Haley Hopkins	KC Current	2026	Forward	0.579
4	Penelope Hocking	KC Current	2026	Forward	0.563
5	Kyra Carusa	San Diego Wave	2025	Forward	0.561
6	Seven Castain	Pride	2026	Forward	0.559
7	Évelyne Viens	Gotham FC	2021	Forward	0.558
8	Ifeoma Onumonu	Royals	2024	Forward	0.556
9	Marissa Everett	Thorns	2019	Forward	0.553
10	Lynn Biyendolo	Courage	2021	Forward	0.551