Players›Tara Rudd
Tara Rudd
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1999-07-02 (age 27)
- Height:
- 173 cm
Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 126 GP · 10,205 min · 6 goals · 8 assists
Composite 2026: 0.702 — ranked 52 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 | 2021 | Spirit | 23 | 13 | 1154 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 10 | 13 | 65.7 | 0 | 0 | 0.08 | 0.23 |
| 2 | 2022 | Spirit | 12 | 11 | 997 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 14 | 5 | 66.9 | 0 | 0 | 0.27 | 0.36 |
| 3 | 2023 | Spirit | 21 | 21 | 1833 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 77.8 | 4 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.10 |
| 4 | 2024 | Spirit | 29 | 29 | 2670 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 85.1 | 2 | 0 | 0.03 | 0.07 |
| 5 | 2025 | Spirit | 28 | 27 | 2381 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 81.9 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.08 |
| 6 | 2026 | Spirit | 13 | 13 | 1170 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 89.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.08 |
| 6 Yrs | 126 | 114 | 10205 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 86 | 34 | 46 | 81.7 | 9 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.12 | ||
Advanced Stats
| 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 | 1154 | 1 | 1.93 | -0.93 | 0.15 | -2.21 | -1.78 | -0.43 | -0.17 | 1.37 | 0.11 | 0.234 |
| 2 | 2022 | Spirit | 997 | 3 | 2.86 | 0.14 | 0.26 | 0.18 | 0.41 | -0.23 | 0.02 | 1.25 | 0.11 | 0.237 |
| 3 | 2023 | Spirit | 1833 | 1 | 2.35 | -1.35 | 0.12 | 0.49 | 3.42 | -2.93 | 0.02 | 5.21 | 0.26 | 0.453 |
| 4 | 2024 | Spirit | 2670 | 1 | 0.55 | 0.45 | 0.02 | 2.95 | 4.90 | -1.95 | 0.10 | 6.18 | 0.21 | 0.639 |
| 5 | 2025 | Spirit | 2381 | 0 | 0.65 | -0.65 | 0.02 | 1.69 | 4.17 | -2.48 | 0.06 | 6.68 | 0.25 | 0.731 |
| 6 | 2026 | Spirit | 1170 | 0 | 0.63 | -0.63 | 0.05 | 1.70 | 2.32 | -0.62 | 0.13 | 4.37 | 0.34 | 0.293 |
| 6 Yrs | 10205 | 6 | 8.97 | -2.97 | 0.08 | 4.80 | 13.44 | -8.64 | 0.04 | 25.06 | 0.22 | 2.587 | ||
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.
| Components | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | xG | Carries | Box Passes | Defense | GK | Composite | Rank | Pool |
| 1 | 2023 | -0.016 | 0.004 | 0.011 | -0.072 | -0.019 | 231 | 240 | |
| 2 | 2024 | -0.229 | 0.554 | 0.694 | -0.738 | 0.105 | 230 | 338 | |
| 3 | 2025 | -0.264 | 0.805 | 0.628 | -0.091 | 0.385 | 91 | 258 | |
| 4 | 2026 | 0.270 | 1.361 | 0.582 | 0.619 | 0.011 | 0.702 | 52 | 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 | 2021 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 2 | 2022 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 7 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 3 | 2023 | 23 | 23 | 22 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 2024 | 31 | 31 | 30 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 2025 | 28 | 28 | 2 | 23 | 3 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 2026 | 13 | 13 | 13 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 6 Yrs | 121 | 1 | 95 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 88 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 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 | Phoebe McClernon | Reign | 2026 | Defender | 0.872 |
| 2 | Emily Menges | Bay | 2025 | Defender | 0.861 |
| 3 | Kylie Nadaner | Pride | 2025 | Defender | 0.850 |
| 4 | Becky Sauerbrunn | Thorns | 2022 | Defender | 0.805 |
| 5 | Annaïg Butel | Spirit | 2024 | Defender | 0.800 |
| 6 | Kaleigh Riehl | Royals | 2024 | Defender | 0.789 |
| 7 | Cheyenne Shorts | San Diego Wave | 2023 | Defender | 0.774 |
| 8 | Jess Carter | Gotham FC | 2026 | Defender | 0.747 |
| 9 | Tierna Davidson | Gotham FC | 2025 | Defender | 0.735 |
| 10 | Esme Morgan | Spirit | 2024 | Defender | 0.732 |