Players›Bea Franklin
Bea Franklin
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 2000-10-04 (age 25)
- Height:
- 178 cm
Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 47 GP · 3,292 min · 4 goals · 1 assists
Composite 2026: -0.185 — ranked 264 of 385 Composite page →
Standard Stats
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 | 2024 | Chicago Stars | 1156 | 1 | 1.65 | -0.65 | 0.13 | -0.07 | 0.41 | -0.48 | -0.01 | 1.40 | 0.11 | 0.466 |
| 2 | 2025 | Chicago Stars | 1741 | 3 | 1.98 | 1.02 | 0.10 | 0.54 | 1.94 | -1.40 | 0.03 | 2.26 | 0.12 | 0.583 |
| 3 | 2026 | Chicago Stars | 395 | 0 | 0.03 | 0.33 | -0.30 | 0.01 | 0.96 | 0.22 | 0.075 | |||
| 3 Yrs | 3292 | 4 | 3.63 | 0.37 | 0.10 | 0.50 | 2.68 | -2.18 | 0.01 | 4.62 | 0.13 | 1.124 | ||
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 | 2024 | 0.437 | 0.337 | 0.403 | 0.331 | 129 | 338 | ||
| 2 | 2026 | -0.429 | -0.180 | -0.751 | 0.062 | 0.000 | -0.185 | 264 | 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 | 2024 | 16 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 12 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2025 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 15 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2026 | 4 | 4 | 4 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 38 | 6 | 3 | 27 | 2 | 11 | 27 | an 8, played like a 6 | |||||||||||
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 | Tara Rudd | Spirit | 2023 | Defender | 0.830 |
| 2 | Sam Hiatt | Thorns | 2025 | Defender | 0.806 |
| 3 | Taylor Maree Leach | Current | 2021 | Defender | 0.801 |
| 4 | Kate Del Fava | Royals | 2024 | Defender | 0.800 |
| 5 | Emily Sonnett | Spirit | 2021 | Defender | 0.785 |
| 6 | Ali Krieger | Gotham | 2022 | Defender | 0.779 |
| 7 | Konya Tajae Plummer | Pride | 2021 | Midfielder | 0.769 |
| 8 | Natalie Jacobs | Dash | 2023 | Defender | 0.769 |
| 9 | Gina Loren Lewandowski | Gotham | 2021 | Defender | 0.766 |
| 10 | Alana Cook | Reign | 2021 | Defender | 0.762 |