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Kelley O'Hara

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 1988-08-04 (age 37)
Height:: 165 cm

Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 84 GP · 6,062 min · 7 goals · 8 assists

Composite 2024: 0.046 — ranked 250 of 338 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	2016	Gotham FC	12	11	1090	1	2	0	19	8	18		1	0	0.08	0.25
2	2017	Gotham FC	18	17	1659	4	3	0	34	23	32		3	0	0.22	0.38
3	2018	Royals	8	7	528	1	0	0	9	6	1		0	0	0.17	0.17
4	2019	Royals	4	2	267	0	1	0	7	3	3		0	0	0.00	0.34
5	2021	Spirit	17	15	1410	1	1	0	14	7	23	76.5	1	0	0.06	0.13
6	2022	Spirit	7	3	375	0	1	0	1	0	4	82.1	1	0	0.00	0.24
7	2023	Gotham FC	15	8	652	0	0	0	6	2	6	74.6	3	0	0.00	0.00
8	2024	Gotham FC	3	1	81	0	0	0	0	0		72.7	0	0	0.00	0.00
	8 Yrs		84	64	6062	7	8	0	90	49	87	76.9	9	0	0.10	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	2016	Gotham FC	1090	1	0.15	0.85	0.01	2.89	2.90	-0.01	0.24	5.71	0.47	0.386
2	2017	Gotham FC	1659	4	3.00	1.00	0.16	4.20	4.78	-0.58	0.23	8.13	0.44	0.507
3	2018	Royals	528	1	0.83	0.17	0.14	0.79	0.98	-0.19	0.14	1.81	0.31	0.152
4	2019	Royals	267	0	0.14	-0.14	0.05	0.50	0.54	-0.04	0.17	1.28	0.43	0.122
5	2021	Spirit	1410	1	0.65	0.35	0.04	3.28	4.25	-0.97	0.21	4.86	0.31	0.246
6	2022	Spirit	375	0	0.03	-0.03	0.01	-0.40	1.06	-1.46	-0.10	1.44	0.35	0.112
7	2023	Gotham FC	652	0	0.55	-0.55	0.08	0.58	1.02	-0.44	0.08	2.55	0.35	0.150
8	2024	Gotham FC	81	0				0.11	0.19	-0.08	0.12	0.38	0.42	0.011
	8 Yrs		6062	7	5.35	1.65	0.08	11.95	15.72	-3.77	0.18	26.16	0.39	1.686

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	2023	-1.326	0.773	-1.250	1.036		-0.070	236	240
2	2024	-1.697	0.554	-1.253	1.792		0.046	250	338

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	2016	11		7	1				3			8				1	2		played her role
2	2017	17		10			1		4	2		12			1		4		played her role
3	2018	7		3					4			4				1	2		a winger, played like a fullback
4	2019	2		2								2							played her role
5	2020	1		1													1		a fullback, played like a winger
6	2021	16		15					1			16							played her role
7	2022	10		9	1							9	1						played her role
8	2023	9		7					2			7					2		played her role
9	2024	2		2								2							played her role
	9 Yrs	75		56	2		1		14	2		60	1		1	2	11		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.

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1	Taylor Wood	Chicago Stars	2024	Midfielder	0.731
2	Michelle Maemone	KC Current	2021	Defender	0.711
3	Zaneta Wyne	Racing Lou	2022	Midfielder	0.695
4	Ellie Bravo-Young	KC Current	2024	Defender	0.677
5	Gabrielle Carle	Spirit	2025	Defender	0.671
6	Allysha Chapman	Dash	2022	Defender	0.667
7	Tatumn Milazzo	Chicago Stars	2024	Defender	0.667
8	Ally Prisock	Dash	2021	Defender	0.663
9	Rebecca Holloway	Racing Lou	2023	Defender	0.658
10	Jimena López	Reign	2022	Defender	0.651