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Sophie Hirst

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 2000-02-25 (age 26)
Height:: 173 cm

Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 23 GP · 954 min · 1 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2024: -0.077 — ranked 336 of 338 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	Dash	12	8	632	1	0	0	2	2	4	66.4	0	0	0.14	0.14
2	2024	Dash	8	3	286	0	0	0	1	0	1	75.9	0	0	0.00	0.00
3	2025	Thorns	3		36	0	0	0	0	0		68.2	0	0	0.00	0.00
	3 Yrs		23	11	954	1	0	0	3	2	5	69.4	0	0	0.09	0.09

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	2023	Dash	632	1	0.54	0.46	0.08	1.18	1.31	-0.14	0.17	0.98	0.14	0.220
2	2024	Dash	286	0	0.17	-0.17	0.05	-0.15	-0.18	0.03	-0.05	0.12	0.04	0.053
3	2025	Thorns	36	0				0.05	0.08	-0.02	0.13	0.08	0.19
	3 Yrs		954	1	0.71	0.29	0.07	1.08	1.21	-0.13	0.10	1.18	0.11	0.273

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
Rk	Season ▴	xG	Carries	Box Passes	Defense	GK	Composite	Rank	Pool
1	2023	0.000	-0.403	0.282	0.729	0.000	0.202	135	240
2	2024	0.926	-0.947	0.220	-0.151		-0.077	336	338

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	10				6	4							10					played her role
2	2024	3					3							2	1				an 8, played like a 6
	2 Yrs	13				6	7							12	1				an 8, played like a 6

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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	Megan Reid	Angel City	2023	Defender	0.626
2	Croix Soto	KC Current	2023	Defender	0.620
3	Kaleigh Riehl	Royals	2025	Defender	0.587
4	Cari Roccaro	Chicago Stars	2024	Midfielder	0.582
5	Taryn Torres	Gotham FC	2022	Midfielder	0.578
6	Olivia Van der Jagt	Reign	2024	Midfielder	0.572
7	Gabby Provenzano	Thorns	2022	Midfielder	0.568
8	Mandy Freeman	Gotham FC	2021	Defender	0.558
9	Rafaelle	Pride	2024	Defender	0.550
10	Natalia Staude	Courage	2025	Defender	0.547