Players›Bethany Balcer
Bethany Balcer
- Position:
- Forward
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1997-03-07 (age 29)
- Height:
- 175 cm
Career (2019–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 130 GP · 7,852 min · 37 goals · 7 assists
Composite 2024: 0.228 — ranked 182 of 338 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 | 2019 | Reign | 24 | 19 | 1811 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 70 | 37 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0.30 | 0.40 | |
| 2 | 2021 | Reign | 24 | 13 | 1210 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 22 | 14 | 71.5 | 3 | 0 | 0.67 | 0.67 |
| 3 | 2022 | Reign | 20 | 17 | 1430 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 19 | 12 | 67.9 | 3 | 0 | 0.44 | 0.50 |
| 4 | 2023 | Reign | 25 | 19 | 1522 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 15 | 18 | 62.0 | 1 | 0 | 0.35 | 0.47 |
| 5 | 2024 | Reign | 25 | 23 | 1808 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 40 | 15 | 11 | 66.1 | 0 | 1 | 0.40 | 0.45 |
| 6 | 2025 | Racing | 12 | 71 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 44.1 | 0 | 0 | 1.27 | 2.54 | ||
| 6 Yrs | 130 | 91 | 7852 | 37 | 7 | 3 | 227 | 110 | 79 | 66.2 | 8 | 1 | 0.42 | 0.50 | ||
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 | 2019 | Reign | 1811 | 6 | 4.29 | 1.71 | 0.21 | 3.46 | 3.93 | -0.47 | 0.17 | 4.32 | 0.21 | 0.445 |
| 2 | 2021 | Reign | 1210 | 9 | 7.16 | 1.84 | 0.53 | 4.00 | 4.38 | -0.38 | 0.30 | 1.11 | 0.08 | 0.231 |
| 3 | 2022 | Reign | 1430 | 7 | 5.78 | 1.22 | 0.36 | 3.39 | 4.79 | -1.40 | 0.21 | 2.53 | 0.16 | 0.337 |
| 4 | 2023 | Reign | 1522 | 6 | 4.81 | 1.19 | 0.28 | 2.76 | 3.33 | -0.58 | 0.16 | 1.83 | 0.11 | 0.401 |
| 5 | 2024 | Reign | 1808 | 8 | 10.97 | -2.97 | 0.55 | 0.32 | 0.73 | -0.41 | 0.02 | 1.81 | 0.09 | 0.270 |
| 6 | 2025 | Racing Lou | 71 | 1 | 0.74 | 0.26 | 0.94 | 0.66 | 0.68 | -0.02 | 0.84 | 0.14 | 0.17 | 0.041 |
| 6 Yrs | 7852 | 37 | 33.75 | 3.25 | 0.39 | 14.59 | 17.84 | -3.26 | 0.17 | 11.74 | 0.13 | 1.725 | ||
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 | 2022 | 0.391 | -1.892 | 0.736 | 2.563 | 0.180 | 135 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2023 | 0.987 | -1.765 | 0.044 | 0.916 | 0.194 | 142 | 240 | |
| 3 | 2024 | 1.078 | -1.656 | 0.007 | 0.678 | 0.228 | 182 | 338 | |
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 | 2019 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | played her role | |||||||
| 2 | 2020 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 3 | 2021 | 15 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 11 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 2022 | 23 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 7 | 15 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 5 | 2023 | 21 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 9 | an 8, played like a 9 | ||||||||||
| 6 | 2024 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 19 | played her role | |||||||||
| 6 Yrs | 110 | 13 | 1 | 28 | 68 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 26 | 67 | 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 | Ashley Hatch | Spirit | 2022 | Forward | 0.790 |
| 2 | Tinaya Chantae Evelyn Alexander | Spirit | 2022 | Forward | 0.786 |
| 3 | Alex Morgan | Wave | 2024 | Forward | 0.770 |
| 4 | Lena Silano | Spirit | 2024 | Forward | 0.758 |
| 5 | Julie Doyle | Pride | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.747 |
| 6 | Elizabeth Eddy | Gotham | 2020 | Defender | 0.714 |
| 7 | Lo'eau LaBonta | Current | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.705 |
| 8 | Christine Sinclair | Thorns | 2021 | Forward | 0.702 |
| 9 | Crystal Elaine Marie Thomas | Spirit | 2020 | Forward | 0.702 |
| 10 | Ebony Salmon | Racing | 2022 | Forward | 0.658 |