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Sydney Collins

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: Canada
Born:: 1999-09-08 (age 26)
Height:: 174 cm

Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 26 GP · 2,129 min · 0 goals · 1 assists

Composite 2026: 1.268 — ranked 11 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	Courage	4	2	194	0	0	0	0	0		84.7	0	0	0.00	0.00
2	2025	Bay	9	8	765	0	0	0	1	0		88.3	1	0	0.00	0.00
3	2026	Bay	13	13	1170	0	1	0	2	1	8	80.6	1	0	0.00	0.08
	3 Yrs		26	23	2129	0	1	0	3	1	8	84.4	2	0	0.00	0.04

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	Courage	194	0				0.25	0.56	-0.31	0.12	0.50	0.23	0.098
2	2025	Bay	765	0	0.03	-0.03	0.00	0.28	0.57	-0.29	0.03	1.19	0.14	0.223
3	2026	Bay	1170	0	0.19	-0.19	0.01	0.26	1.18	-0.92	0.02	5.27	0.41	0.320
	3 Yrs		2129	0	0.22	-0.22	0.01	0.79	2.31	-1.52	0.03	6.96	0.29	0.641

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	0.012	0.046	1.534	0.755	0.000	0.700	31	240
2	2025	-0.071	0.554	2.377	1.459		1.347	6	258
3	2026	-0.383	1.073	1.330	1.725	0.000	1.268	11	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	2		1	1							1	1						played her role
2	2025	8			8								8						played her role
3	2026	13		13								12	1						played her role
	3 Yrs	23		14	9							13	10						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	Mandy Freeman	Gotham FC	2025	Defender	0.776
2	Haley McCutcheon	Dash	2021	Defender	0.773
3	Kate Del Fava	KC Current	2023	Defender	0.751
4	Christen Westphal	San Diego Wave	2023	Defender	0.745
5	Kelley O'Hara	Spirit	2022	Defender	0.720
6	Maximiliane Rall	Chicago Stars	2024	Defender	0.717
7	Ellie Bravo-Young	KC Current	2025	Defender	0.708
8	Hailie Mace	KC Current	2025	Midfielder	0.706
9	Nealy Martin	Racing Lou	2022	Midfielder	0.703
10	Merritt Mathias	Courage	2021	Defender	0.695