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Paige Cronin
- Position:
- Forward
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1996-11-13 (age 29)
- Height:
- 170 cm
Career (2019–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 124 GP · 7,945 min · 17 goals · 5 assists
Composite 2026: 0.069 — ranked 194 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 | 2019 | Gotham FC | 23 | 20 | 1916 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 44 | 22 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 0.09 | 0.14 | |
| 2 | 2021 | Gotham FC | 13 | 5 | 527 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 63.5 | 2 | 0 | 0.17 | 0.17 |
| 3 | 2022 | Gotham FC | 22 | 18 | 1412 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 10 | 15 | 62.6 | 3 | 0 | 0.19 | 0.19 |
| 4 | 2023 | Racing Lou | 22 | 14 | 1155 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 12 | 17 | 67.6 | 1 | 0 | 0.23 | 0.23 |
| 5 | 2024 | Royals | 22 | 20 | 1578 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 8 | 21 | 64.4 | 2 | 0 | 0.11 | 0.17 |
| 6 | 2025 | Royals | 16 | 14 | 1065 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 61.2 | 5 | 0 | 0.42 | 0.59 |
| 7 | 2026 | Royals | 6 | 4 | 292 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 51.7 | 0 | 0 | 0.31 | 0.62 |
| 7 Yrs | 124 | 95 | 7945 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 140 | 68 | 95 | 63.7 | 15 | 0 | 0.19 | 0.25 | ||
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 | 2019 | Gotham FC | 1916 | 2 | 2.32 | -0.32 | 0.11 | 0.50 | 1.24 | -0.74 | 0.02 | 5.07 | 0.24 | 0.405 |
| 2 | 2021 | Gotham FC | 527 | 1 | 0.20 | 0.80 | 0.03 | 1.81 | 2.02 | -0.21 | 0.31 | 1.40 | 0.24 | 0.179 |
| 3 | 2022 | Gotham FC | 1412 | 3 | 2.95 | 0.05 | 0.19 | 0.05 | 1.30 | -1.25 | 0.00 | 2.91 | 0.19 | 0.312 |
| 4 | 2023 | Racing Lou | 1155 | 3 | 2.16 | 0.84 | 0.17 | 2.90 | 3.37 | -0.47 | 0.23 | 2.45 | 0.19 | 0.275 |
| 5 | 2024 | Royals | 1578 | 2 | 2.65 | -0.65 | 0.15 | 2.24 | 3.94 | -1.70 | 0.13 | 3.66 | 0.21 | 0.328 |
| 6 | 2025 | Royals | 1065 | 5 | 3.32 | 1.68 | 0.28 | 3.22 | 3.83 | -0.62 | 0.27 | 2.16 | 0.18 | 0.149 |
| 7 | 2026 | Royals | 292 | 1 | 0.28 | 0.72 | 0.09 | 0.80 | 0.82 | -0.02 | 0.25 | 2.85 | 0.88 | 0.079 |
| 7 Yrs | 7945 | 17 | 13.88 | 3.12 | 0.16 | 11.52 | 16.52 | -5.01 | 0.13 | 20.50 | 0.23 | 1.727 | ||
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 | -0.069 | 0.814 | 0.645 | 0.323 | 0.282 | 116 | 240 | |
| 2 | 2024 | -0.291 | 0.822 | 0.033 | 0.040 | 0.069 | 244 | 338 | |
| 3 | 2026 | 0.160 | 0.503 | -0.786 | -0.152 | 0.000 | 0.069 | 194 | 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 | 2019 | 20 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 4 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 2 | 2020 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2021 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 5 | a winger, played like a fullback | |||||||||||
| 4 | 2022 | 23 | 2 | 20 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 5 | 2023 | 22 | 22 | 3 | 19 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 6 | 2024 | 23 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 2 | played her role | |||||||
| 7 | 2025 | 14 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 2 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 8 | 2026 | 4 | 4 | 4 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 8 Yrs | 126 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 102 | 10 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 88 | 11 | 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 | Ally Brazier | Pride | 2024 | Forward | 0.843 |
| 2 | Emma Sears | Racing Lou | 2025 | Forward | 0.836 |
| 3 | Tyler Lussi | Courage | 2023 | Forward | 0.759 |
| 4 | Nichelle Prince | KC Current | 2025 | Forward | 0.755 |
| 5 | Sofia Jakobsson | San Diego Wave | 2024 | Forward | 0.747 |
| 6 | Rachel Hill | Bay | 2025 | Forward | 0.745 |
| 7 | Michelle Cooper | KC Current | 2025 | Forward | 0.745 |
| 8 | Jenna Bike | Chicago Stars | 2023 | Forward | 0.740 |
| 9 | Nádia Gomes | Chicago Stars | 2025 | Forward | 0.734 |
| 10 | Taylor Smith | Gotham FC | 2022 | Forward | 0.722 |