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W. Church

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 1993-04-30 (age 33)
Height:: 165 cm

Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 55 GP · 4,779 min · 1 goals · 2 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	2016	Spirit	11	7	665	0	0	0	0	0	2		0	0	0.00	0.00
2	2017	Spirit	22	22	2108	1	1	0	4	2	4		1	0	0.04	0.09
3	2018	Spirit	22	21	2006	0	1	0	7	6	11		2	0	0.00	0.04
	3 Yrs		55	50	4779	1	2	0	11	8	17		3	0	0.02	0.06

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	2016	Spirit	665	0				0.69	0.72	-0.03	0.09	0.93	0.13	0.102
2	2017	Spirit	2108	1	0.18	0.82	0.01	1.62	2.53	-0.92	0.07	4.07	0.17	0.670
3	2018	Spirit	2006	0	0.03	-0.03	0.00	1.16	2.11	-0.95	0.05	5.54	0.25	0.674
	3 Yrs		4779	1	0.21	0.79	0.00	3.47	5.36	-1.90	0.07	10.54	0.20	1.446

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	2016	9		3	6							3	5	1					played her role
2	2017	22			22								21	1					played her role
3	2018	21			18		3						18	2	1				played her role
	3 Yrs	52		3	46		3					3	44	4	1				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	Domi Richardson	Gotham FC	2018	Midfielder	0.905
2	Shelina Laura Zadorsky	Spirit	2017	Defender	0.887
3	Emily Sonnett	Thorns	2018	Defender	0.874
4	Whitney Engen	Breakers	2016	Defender	0.854
5	Becky Sauerbrunn	Kansas	2017	Defender	0.852
6	Amber Brooks	Dash	2018	Defender	0.832
7	Katie Lind	Chicago Stars	2016	Defender	0.817
8	Megan Montefusco	Breakers	2017	Defender	0.806
9	Ali Krieger	Pride	2017	Defender	0.793
10	Christie Pearce	Gotham FC	2016	Defender	0.790