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Sam Coffey

Sam Coffey

Position:
Midfielder
Nationality:
USA
Born:
1998-12-31 (age 27)
Height:
165 cm

Career (2022–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 96 GP · 8,350 min · 5 goals · 17 assists

Composite 2025: 0.424 — ranked 79 of 258 Composite page →

Standard Stats

Glossary
Playing TimePerformancePer 90
RkSeasonTeamGPGSMinGlsAstPKShSoTKPPass%CrdYCrdRGls/90G+A/90
12022Thorns212017541201583582.2100.050.15
22023Thorns23232080080823380.7100.000.35
32024Thorns25242084230543485.8000.090.22
42025Thorns272724322421463383.8300.070.22
4 Yrs969483505172422013583.2500.050.24

Advanced Stats

Glossary
ExpectedVAEPThreat
RkSeasonTeamMinGlsxGG−xGxG/90VAEPOffDefVAEP/90xTxT/90DAxT
12022Thorns175410.730.270.044.114.48-0.370.214.630.240.593
22023Thorns208000.49-0.490.023.894.37-0.480.174.910.210.885
32024Thorns208420.421.580.024.544.77-0.230.204.380.190.908
42025Thorns243223.13-1.130.122.342.95-0.610.095.140.190.816
4 Yrs835054.770.230.0514.8816.57-1.690.1619.060.213.202

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.

Glossary
Components
RkSeasonxGCarriesBox PassesDefenseGKCompositeRankPool
12022-1.261-1.6250.3972.0870.150144247
22023-1.049-0.8381.2621.6370.50353240
32024-0.299-0.8291.0761.2270.439102338
42025-0.426-0.7170.9881.2340.42479258

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)
RkSeasonStartsGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTRead
1202224159231played her role
22023271710261played her role
3202424141024played her role
4202527188112231played her role
4 Yrs1026437119542played her role

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Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.

RkPlayerTeamSeasonPosSimilarity
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