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Abby Smith

Position:: Goalkeeper
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 1993-10-04 (age 32)
Height:: 175 cm

Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 82 GP · 7,466 min · 0 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2026: 1.322 — ranked 8 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	2016	Breakers	2	2	123	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00
2	2017	Breakers	19	19	1803	0	0	0	0	0	2		2	0	0.00	0.00
3	2018	Royals	17	17	1604	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00
4	2021	KC Current	6	6	530	0	0	0	1	0		60.1	1	0	0.00	0.00
5	2022	Thorns	1	1	90	0	0	0	0	0		55.0	0	0	0.00	0.00
6	2023	Gotham FC	15	15	1349	0	0	0	0	0		66.4	0	0	0.00	0.00
7	2024	Gotham FC	0		0	0	0	0	0	0			0	0
8	2025	Dash	9	8	797	0	0	0	0	0		71.1	0	0	0.00	0.00
9	2026	Denver	13	13	1170	0	0	0	0	0	1	79.7	0	0	0.00	0.00
	9 Yrs		82	81	7466	0	0	0	1	0	3	70.8	3	0	0.00	0.00

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	Breakers	123	0				0.27	0.13	0.14	0.20	0.55	0.40
2	2017	Breakers	1803	0				1.28	1.99	-0.71	0.06	5.10	0.25	0.009
3	2018	Royals	1604	0				2.30	1.46	0.83	0.13	4.10	0.23
4	2021	KC Current	530	0	0.03	-0.03	0.00	1.22	0.81	0.41	0.21	1.69	0.29
5	2022	Thorns	90	0				0.53	0.18	0.35	0.53	0.14	0.14
6	2023	Gotham FC	1349	0				2.07	1.43	0.65	0.14	2.80	0.19
7	2024	Gotham FC	0	0
8	2025	Dash	797	0				1.04	0.55	0.49	0.12	1.25	0.14
9	2026	Denver	1170	0				1.87	1.06	0.81	0.14	1.58	0.12
	9 Yrs		7466	0	0.03	-0.03	0.00	10.58	7.61	2.97	0.13	17.21	0.21	0.009

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	2022	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	185	247
2	2023	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	185	240
3	2025					0.000	0.000	191	258
4	2026	-0.100	0.809	-0.342	1.489	1.322	1.322	8	385

Goalkeeping

Glossary

Rk	Season ▴	Team	GP	Min	GA	Saves	Save%	CS	PSxG	PSxG−GA
1	2021	KC Current	6	530	0	19	100.0	1
2	2022	Thorns	1	90	0	5	100.0		4.55	0.55
3	2023	Gotham FC	15	1349	15	45	75.0	4	18.23	3.23
4	2024	Gotham FC	0	0	0	0
5	2025	Dash	9	797	17	47	73.4	1	18.28	0.28
6	2026	Denver	13	1170	18	42	70.0	4	20.18	3.18
	6 Yrs		44	3936	50	158	76.0	10	61.24	7.24

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	2	2																—
2	2017	19	19																—
3	2018	17	17																—
4	2020	7	7																—
5	2021	8	8																—
6	2022	3	3																—
7	2023	16	16																—
8	2025	8	8																—
9	2026	13	13																—
	9 Yrs	93	93																—

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	Emily Boyd	Chicago Stars	2023	Goalkeeper	0.901
2	Marisa Jordan	Courage	2025	Goalkeeper	0.871
3	Jordyn Bloomer	Racing Lou	2025	Goalkeeper	0.871
4	Katie Atkinson	Racing Lou	2022	Goalkeeper	0.865
5	Kailen Sheridan	Gotham FC	2021	Goalkeeper	0.865
6	Jordan Silkowitz	Bay	2025	Goalkeeper	0.855
7	Karen Louise Bardsley	Reign	2021	Goalkeeper	0.853
8	Aubrey Kingsbury	Spirit	2023	Goalkeeper	0.846
9	Casey Murphy	Courage	2022	Goalkeeper	0.846
10	Jane Campbell	Dash	2021	Goalkeeper	0.844