Players›Michelle Cooper
Michelle Cooper
- Position:
- Forward
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 2002-12-04 (age 23)
- Height:
- 160 cm
Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 77 GP · 5,281 min · 16 goals · 10 assists
Composite 2026: 0.406 — ranked 111 of 385 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 | KC Current | 21 | 17 | 1634 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 32 | 16 | 22 | 65.4 | 5 | 0 | 0.17 | 0.22 |
| 2 | 2024 | KC Current | 23 | 17 | 1502 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 11 | 22 | 67.1 | 2 | 0 | 0.18 | 0.36 |
| 3 | 2025 | KC Current | 20 | 17 | 1242 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 15 | 19 | 71.2 | 3 | 0 | 0.43 | 0.65 |
| 4 | 2026 | KC Current | 13 | 12 | 903 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 62.3 | 1 | 0 | 0.40 | 0.70 |
| 4 Yrs | 77 | 63 | 5281 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 103 | 52 | 69 | 66.6 | 11 | 0 | 0.27 | 0.44 | ||
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 | 2023 | KC Current | 1634 | 3 | 5.01 | -2.01 | 0.28 | -1.79 | 0.13 | -1.92 | -0.10 | 3.53 | 0.19 | 0.295 |
| 2 | 2024 | KC Current | 1502 | 3 | 3.73 | -0.73 | 0.22 | 2.96 | 3.64 | -0.68 | 0.18 | 3.77 | 0.23 | 0.413 |
| 3 | 2025 | KC Current | 1242 | 6 | 3.62 | 2.38 | 0.26 | 4.96 | 5.36 | -0.40 | 0.36 | 3.13 | 0.23 | 0.262 |
| 4 | 2026 | KC Current | 903 | 4 | 2.48 | 1.52 | 0.25 | 2.45 | 2.83 | -0.39 | 0.24 | 7.76 | 0.77 | 0.216 |
| 4 Yrs | 5281 | 16 | 14.84 | 1.16 | 0.25 | 8.58 | 11.96 | -3.39 | 0.15 | 18.19 | 0.31 | 1.186 | ||
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 | 2023 | -0.489 | 0.550 | -0.642 | -0.171 | 240 | 240 | ||
| 2 | 2026 | 0.407 | 1.854 | -0.716 | -0.112 | 0.000 | 0.406 | 111 | 385 |
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 | 23 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 4 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 2 | 2024 | 22 | 3 | 19 | 2 | 18 | 2 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 3 | 2025 | 17 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 16 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 4 | 2026 | 12 | 12 | 12 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 Yrs | 74 | 5 | 64 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 64 | 7 | 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 | Michelle Alozie | Dash | 2022 | Defender | 0.709 |
| 2 | Cameron Tucker | Dash | 2023 | Forward | 0.700 |
| 3 | Bianca St-Georges | Courage | 2024 | Forward | 0.696 |
| 4 | Taylor Smith | Gotham FC | 2022 | Forward | 0.696 |
| 5 | Mya Jones | San Diego Wave | 2024 | Forward | 0.678 |
| 6 | Midge Purce | Gotham FC | 2025 | Forward | 0.661 |
| 7 | Sveindís Jónsdóttir | Angel City | 2025 | Forward | 0.651 |
| 8 | Nichelle Prince | KC Current | 2025 | Forward | 0.651 |
| 9 | Janni Thomsen | Royals | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.638 |
| 10 | Ayo Oke | Denver | 2026 | Defender | 0.637 |