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Merritt Mathias
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1990-07-02 (age 36)
- Height:
- 168 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 137 GP · 10,376 min · 6 goals · 12 assists
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 | Reign | 19 | 17 | 1457 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.06 | 0.06 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Reign | 21 | 18 | 1496 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0.12 | 0.18 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Courage | 22 | 22 | 2076 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 11 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 0.13 | 0.22 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Courage | 20 | 20 | 1958 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 21 | 13 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.23 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Courage | 23 | 23 | 1946 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 16 | 75.2 | 6 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.05 |
| 6 | 2022 | Courage | 19 | 12 | 1079 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 77.1 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.25 |
| 7 | 2024 | Angel City | 13 | 3 | 364 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 71.6 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 7 Yrs | 137 | 115 | 10376 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 99 | 59 | 100 | 75.5 | 20 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.16 | ||
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 | Reign | 1457 | 1 | 0.16 | 0.84 | 0.01 | -1.48 | 0.04 | -1.52 | -0.09 | 2.26 | 0.14 | 0.276 |
| 2 | 2017 | Reign | 1496 | 2 | 1.01 | 0.99 | 0.06 | 0.00 | 0.96 | -0.96 | 0.00 | 3.28 | 0.20 | 0.254 |
| 3 | 2018 | Courage | 2076 | 3 | 0.71 | 2.29 | 0.03 | 5.92 | 7.05 | -1.13 | 0.26 | 9.02 | 0.39 | 0.583 |
| 4 | 2019 | Courage | 1958 | 0 | 0.28 | -0.28 | 0.01 | 3.24 | 3.99 | -0.75 | 0.15 | 9.26 | 0.43 | 0.441 |
| 5 | 2021 | Courage | 1946 | 0 | 0.36 | -0.36 | 0.02 | 2.90 | 4.60 | -1.70 | 0.13 | 8.05 | 0.37 | 0.393 |
| 6 | 2022 | Courage | 1079 | 0 | 0.31 | -0.31 | 0.03 | 1.19 | 2.51 | -1.33 | 0.10 | 3.84 | 0.32 | 0.309 |
| 7 | 2024 | Angel City | 364 | 0 | 0.05 | -0.05 | 0.01 | 0.13 | 0.53 | -0.40 | 0.03 | 1.66 | 0.41 | 0.071 |
| 7 Yrs | 10376 | 6 | 2.88 | 3.12 | 0.02 | 11.90 | 19.68 | -7.79 | 0.10 | 37.37 | 0.32 | 2.327 | ||
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 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 9 | played her role | |||||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 7 | played her role | |||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 24 | 24 | 24 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 20 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||
| 5 | 2021 | 26 | 25 | 1 | 25 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 2022 | 20 | 20 | 20 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | 2024 | 4 | 4 | 4 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 7 Yrs | 129 | 104 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 102 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 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 | Miyabi Moriya | Angel City | 2025 | Defender | 0.828 |
| 2 | Sofia Huerta | Reign | 2025 | Defender | 0.736 |
| 3 | Janine Sonis | Racing Lou | 2025 | Forward | 0.727 |
| 4 | Makenna Morris | Spirit | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.721 |
| 5 | Kate Elizabeth Bowen | KC Current | 2021 | Defender | 0.710 |
| 6 | Bruninha | Gotham FC | 2023 | Defender | 0.671 |
| 7 | Ellie Jean | Gotham FC | 2022 | Defender | 0.670 |
| 8 | Kate Del Fava | KC Current | 2022 | Defender | 0.664 |
| 9 | Caprice Dydasco | Gotham FC | 2022 | Defender | 0.645 |
| 10 | Christen Westphal | Thorns | 2021 | Defender | 0.645 |