Players›Megan Montefusco
Megan Montefusco
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1992-09-03 (age 33)
- Height:
- 173 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 135 GP · 11,983 min · 1 goals · 3 assists
Composite 2023: 0.504 — ranked 52 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 | 2016 | Spirit | 15 | 15 | 1415 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Breakers | 23 | 23 | 2182 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Reign | 20 | 20 | 1936 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.14 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Reign | 20 | 20 | 1933 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Dash | 21 | 17 | 1554 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 79.7 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.06 |
| 6 | 2022 | Pride | 21 | 21 | 1861 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 78.2 | 7 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 7 | 2023 | Pride | 15 | 12 | 1102 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 81.8 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 7 Yrs | 135 | 128 | 11983 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 7 | 32 | 79.6 | 21 | 0 | 0.01 | 0.03 | ||
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 | 2016 | Spirit | 1415 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.60 | 0.96 | 0.64 | 0.10 | 2.42 | 0.15 | 0.347 |
| 2 | 2017 | Breakers | 2182 | 0 | 0.32 | -0.32 | 0.01 | 1.07 | 2.34 | -1.26 | 0.04 | 6.69 | 0.28 | 0.636 |
| 3 | 2018 | Reign | 1936 | 1 | 1.07 | -0.07 | 0.05 | 2.71 | 3.68 | -0.97 | 0.13 | 5.60 | 0.26 | 0.604 |
| 4 | 2019 | Reign | 1933 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.42 | 2.85 | -0.43 | 0.11 | 5.36 | 0.25 | 0.517 |
| 5 | 2021 | Dash | 1554 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.15 | 3.82 | -0.66 | 0.18 | 5.02 | 0.29 | 0.336 |
| 6 | 2022 | Pride | 1861 | 0 | 0.62 | -0.62 | 0.03 | 0.69 | 3.01 | -2.33 | 0.03 | 4.76 | 0.23 | 0.488 |
| 7 | 2023 | Pride | 1102 | 0 | 0.10 | -0.10 | 0.01 | 2.45 | 2.99 | -0.54 | 0.20 | 2.92 | 0.24 | 0.279 |
| 7 Yrs | 11983 | 1 | 2.11 | -1.11 | 0.02 | 14.09 | 19.65 | -5.55 | 0.11 | 32.77 | 0.25 | 3.207 | ||
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 | -0.833 | -0.478 | 1.278 | 1.055 | 0.568 | 44 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2023 | -0.558 | 0.092 | 0.601 | 0.926 | 0.504 | 52 | 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 | 2016 | 16 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 16 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 23 | 23 | 1 | 22 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 21 | 21 | 21 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 20 | 20 | 1 | 19 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 2020 | 6 | 6 | 6 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | 2021 | 21 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 20 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 7 | 2022 | 26 | 21 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 4 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 8 | 2023 | 16 | 16 | 16 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 8 Yrs | 149 | 2 | 141 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 141 | 4 | 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 | Sarah Gorden | Angel City | 2023 | Defender | 0.926 |
| 2 | Abby Dahlkemper | Bay | 2025 | Defender | 0.917 |
| 3 | Diane Evelyn Caldwell | Courage | 2021 | Defender | 0.904 |
| 4 | Kelli Hubly | Thorns | 2023 | Defender | 0.887 |
| 5 | Elizabeth Ball | KC Current | 2023 | Defender | 0.886 |
| 6 | Alana Cook | Reign | 2022 | Defender | 0.882 |
| 7 | Kennedy Wesley | San Diego Wave | 2026 | Defender | 0.874 |
| 8 | Emily Sams | Pride | 2025 | Defender | 0.869 |
| 9 | Katie Lind | Dash | 2023 | Defender | 0.859 |
| 10 | Kaleigh Riehl | San Diego Wave | 2022 | Defender | 0.857 |