Players›Kayla Sharples
Kayla Sharples
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1997-06-17 (age 29)
- Height:
- 180 cm
Career (2019–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 99 GP · 7,770 min · 5 goals · 2 assists
Composite 2026: 0.394 — ranked 115 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 | 2019 | Chicago Stars | 2 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 2 | 2021 | Chicago Stars | 14 | 12 | 1079 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 74.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 3 | 2022 | Chicago Stars | 8 | 8 | 653 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 83.7 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 4 | 2023 | Chicago Stars | 11 | 8 | 695 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 79.2 | 1 | 0 | 0.13 | 0.13 |
| 5 | 2024 | Bay | 25 | 22 | 1998 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 84.7 | 5 | 0 | 0.09 | 0.09 |
| 6 | 2025 | KC Current | 25 | 24 | 2207 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 87.0 | 1 | 0 | 0.08 | 0.12 |
| 7 | 2026 | KC Current | 14 | 13 | 1109 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 87.0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.08 |
| 7 Yrs | 99 | 87 | 7770 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 39 | 19 | 19 | 84.1 | 12 | 0 | 0.06 | 0.08 | ||
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 | 2019 | Chicago Stars | 29 | 0 | 0.07 | -0.07 | 0.22 | -0.09 | -0.05 | -0.04 | -0.29 | 0.05 | 0.14 | |
| 2 | 2021 | Chicago Stars | 1079 | 0 | 0.75 | -0.75 | 0.06 | -0.08 | 0.47 | -0.55 | -0.01 | 2.56 | 0.21 | 0.359 |
| 3 | 2022 | Chicago Stars | 653 | 0 | -0.14 | 0.72 | -0.86 | -0.02 | 1.08 | 0.15 | 0.138 | |||
| 4 | 2023 | Chicago Stars | 695 | 1 | 0.61 | 0.39 | 0.08 | 1.02 | 1.50 | -0.48 | 0.13 | 1.40 | 0.18 | 0.200 |
| 5 | 2024 | Bay | 1998 | 2 | 1.37 | 0.63 | 0.06 | 0.61 | 2.77 | -2.16 | 0.03 | 4.20 | 0.19 | 0.420 |
| 6 | 2025 | KC Current | 2207 | 2 | 1.37 | 0.63 | 0.06 | 3.25 | 4.49 | -1.25 | 0.13 | 4.91 | 0.20 | 0.364 |
| 7 | 2026 | KC Current | 1109 | 0 | 0.56 | -0.56 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.42 | -0.36 | 0.01 | 2.81 | 0.23 | 0.216 |
| 7 Yrs | 7770 | 5 | 4.73 | 0.27 | 0.05 | 4.63 | 10.32 | -5.70 | 0.05 | 17.01 | 0.20 | 1.697 | ||
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 | -0.351 | -0.901 | -0.509 | 0.651 | 0.156 | 140 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2024 | 1.241 | -1.065 | -0.872 | 0.456 | 0.011 | 271 | 338 | |
| 3 | 2025 | 1.375 | -1.191 | -0.601 | 0.679 | 0.207 | 136 | 258 | |
| 4 | 2026 | 0.919 | -0.392 | -0.288 | 0.765 | 0.025 | 0.394 | 115 | 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 | 2020 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2021 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 2022 | 12 | 12 | 12 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2023 | 11 | 11 | 11 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | 2024 | 24 | 24 | 24 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | 2025 | 24 | 24 | 24 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | 2026 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 7 Yrs | 100 | 1 | 99 | 1 | 97 | 1 | 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 | Elizabeth Ball | KC Current | 2025 | Defender | 0.788 |
| 2 | Abby Dahlkemper | San Diego Wave | 2023 | Defender | 0.781 |
| 3 | Alana Cook | Reign | 2022 | Defender | 0.769 |
| 4 | Kaleigh Riehl | Royals | 2026 | Defender | 0.749 |
| 5 | Gemma Bonner | Racing Lou | 2022 | Defender | 0.749 |
| 6 | Gina Loren Lewandowski | Gotham FC | 2022 | Defender | 0.746 |
| 7 | Paige Nielsen | Dash | 2026 | Defender | 0.738 |
| 8 | Sam Hiatt | Thorns | 2026 | Defender | 0.737 |
| 9 | Kate Del Fava | KC Current | 2021 | Defender | 0.734 |
| 10 | Arin Wright | Racing Lou | 2024 | Defender | 0.732 |