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Saori Takarada

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: Japan
Born:: 1999-12-27 (age 26)
Height:: 168 cm

Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 10 GP · 398 min · 0 goals · 0 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	2021	Spirit	10	6	398	0	0	0	3	1	4	75.2	0	0	0.00	0.00
	1 Yr		10	6	398	0	0	0	3	1	4	75.2	0	0	0.00	0.00

Advanced Stats

Glossary

					Expected			VAEP				Threat
Rk	Season ▴	Team	Min	Gls	xG	G−xG	xG/90	VAEP	Off	Def	VAEP/90	xT	xT/90	DAxT
1	2021	Spirit	398	0	0.12	-0.12	0.03	0.27	0.56	-0.29	0.06	0.93	0.21	0.176
	1 Yr		398	0	0.12	-0.12	0.03	0.27	0.56	-0.29	0.06	0.93	0.21	0.176

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	2021	9		3	3		1	1	1			3	3		1		2		played her role
	1 Yr	9		3	3		1	1	1			3	3		1		2		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	Ryan Williams	Courage	2023	Defender	0.779
2	Paige Nielsen	Spirit	2021	Defender	0.761
3	Natalia Kuikka	Thorns	2023	Defender	0.751
4	Jess Carter	Gotham FC	2024	Defender	0.745
5	Maitane López	Gotham FC	2023	Midfielder	0.724
6	Nealy Martin	Racing Lou	2022	Midfielder	0.718
7	Tatumn Milazzo	Chicago Stars	2023	Defender	0.713
8	Paige Metayer	Spirit	2024	Midfielder	0.710
9	Celia Jiménez	Reign	2021	Defender	0.701
10	Hanna Lundkvist	San Diego Wave	2025	Defender	0.701