Players›Meaghan Nally
Meaghan Nally
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1998-06-30 (age 28)
- Height:
- 170 cm
Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 25 GP · 1,496 min · 0 goals · 0 assists
Composite 2024: 0.218 — ranked 187 of 338 Composite page →
Standard Stats
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 | 2021 | Thorns | 19 | 0 | 0.07 | -0.07 | 0.33 | -0.23 | -0.23 | 0.00 | -1.09 | -0.03 | -0.13 | |
| 2 | 2022 | Thorns | 1017 | 0 | 0.15 | -0.15 | 0.01 | 0.54 | 1.29 | -0.74 | 0.05 | 2.28 | 0.20 | 0.209 |
| 3 | 2023 | Thorns | 415 | 0 | 0.14 | -0.14 | 0.03 | -0.38 | 1.02 | -1.40 | -0.08 | 0.70 | 0.15 | 0.113 |
| 4 | 2024 | Thorns | 45 | 0 | 0.10 | 0.14 | -0.04 | 0.20 | 0.06 | 0.11 | ||||
| 4 Yrs | 1496 | 0 | 0.36 | -0.36 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 2.22 | -2.18 | 0.00 | 3.01 | 0.18 | 0.322 | ||
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 | -0.937 | 0.148 | 1.480 | 0.254 | 103 | 247 | ||
| 2 | 2023 | -1.055 | -0.065 | 0.475 | 0.244 | 0.206 | 134 | 240 | |
| 3 | 2024 | -1.770 | 0.166 | 1.014 | 0.061 | 0.218 | 187 | 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 | 2022 | 16 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 10 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2023 | 6 | 6 | 6 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 2 Yrs | 22 | 4 | 18 | 6 | 16 | 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 | Emily Mason | Reign | 2026 | Defender | 0.747 |
| 2 | Diane Evelyn Caldwell | Courage | 2021 | Defender | 0.710 |
| 3 | Isabella Obaze | Thorns | 2024 | Defender | 0.702 |
| 4 | Kaleigh Riehl | San Diego Wave | 2022 | Defender | 0.701 |
| 5 | Megan Montefusco | Pride | 2023 | Defender | 0.664 |
| 6 | Emily Sonnett | Gotham FC | 2026 | Defender | 0.656 |
| 7 | Sierra Enge | San Diego Wave | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.652 |
| 8 | Kate Del Fava | Royals | 2025 | Defender | 0.650 |
| 9 | Ellie Jean | Gotham FC | 2023 | Defender | 0.649 |
| 10 | Kiki Pickett | Bay | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.637 |