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Sydney Leroux

Sydney Leroux

Position:
Forward
Nationality:
USA
Born:
1990-05-07 (age 36)
Height:
170 cm

Career (2017–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 128 GP · 9,672 min · 33 goals · 10 assists

Composite 2024: 0.358 — ranked 119 of 338 Composite page →

Standard Stats

Glossary
Playing TimePerformancePer 90
RkSeasonTeamGPGSMinGlsAstPKShSoTKPPass%CrdYCrdRGls/90G+A/90
12017Kansas23232103620633625200.260.34
22018Pride20151653620513518200.330.44
32019Pride3056000001000.000.00
42021Pride2323201882047262175.2100.360.45
52022Pride2016150042038161071.0200.240.36
62023Angel City1465992101210660.2000.300.45
72024Angel City251917437102314964.1100.360.41
82025000000000
92026000000000
9 Yrs1281029672331002341379069.6800.310.40

Advanced Stats

Glossary
ExpectedVAEPThreat
RkSeasonTeamMinGlsxGG−xGxG/90VAEPOffDefVAEP/90xTxT/90DAxT
12017Kansas210363.462.540.150.370.97-0.600.022.050.090.295
22018Pride165364.061.940.222.142.47-0.330.122.070.110.254
32019Pride560-0.13-0.12-0.01-0.21-0.01-0.01
42021Pride201885.882.120.264.415.06-0.640.202.750.120.334
52022Pride150042.541.460.15-1.25-1.03-0.22-0.070.960.060.099
62023Angel City59921.610.390.24-0.61-0.50-0.11-0.090.340.050.014
72024Angel City174375.241.760.272.743.11-0.370.140.680.040.162
8202500
9202600
9 Yrs96723322.7910.210.217.679.96-2.280.078.840.081.158

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
12022-0.740-0.0521.9100.936-0.051244247
22023-0.416-0.3211.1291.1800.002184240
320240.582-0.670-0.1161.6400.358119338

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
1201723122122played her role
22018152103168a winger, played like a 9
32020333played her role
420212712151188played her role
52022117465played her role
620236615played her role
72024191911116played her role
7 Yrs104213962323267played 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.

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