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Madelyn Desiano

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 2000-02-18 (age 26)
Height:: 168 cm

Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 4 GP · 20 min · 0 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2023: 0.060 — ranked 171 of 240 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	2023	Dash	4		20	0	0	0	1	0		55.6	0	0	0.00	0.00
	1 Yr		4	0	20	0	0	0	1	0	0	55.6	0	0	0.00	0.00

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	2023	Dash	20	0	0.05	-0.05	0.21	0.88	0.95	-0.07	3.98	0.11	0.50	0.015
	1 Yr		20	0	0.05	-0.05	0.23	0.88	0.95	-0.07	3.96	0.11	0.49	0.015

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	0.405	0.829	-0.491	-0.372	0.000	0.060	171	240

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	2023	1							1								1		played her role
	1 Yr	1							1								1		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	Mikayla Cluff	Royals	2025	Midfielder	0.664
2	Ally Schlegel	Chicago Stars	2023	Forward	0.644
3	Inès Jaurena	Spirit	2023	Midfielder	0.561
4	Taylor Smith	Gotham FC	2023	Forward	0.558
5	Taylor Otto	Racing Lou	2021	Defender	0.551
6	Gabi Morais	Gotham FC	2019	Midfielder	0.543
7	Marley Canales	Reign	2023	Midfielder	0.538
8	Olivia Van der Jagt	Reign	2023	Midfielder	0.538
9	Delanie Sheehan	Gotham FC	2022	Midfielder	0.537
10	Taylor Porter	Thorns	2022	Midfielder	0.532