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Chai Cortez

Position:
Defender
Nationality:
USA
Born:
1998-07-18 (age 27)
Height:
160 cm

Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 2 GP · 66 min · 0 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2024: 0.079 — ranked 241 of 338 Composite page →

Standard Stats

Glossary
Playing TimePerformancePer 90
RkSeason ▴TeamGPGSMinGlsAstPKShSoTKPPass%CrdYCrdRGls/90G+A/90
12023Wave21660000055.0000.000.00
1 Yr216600000055.0000.000.00

Advanced Stats

Glossary
ExpectedVAEPThreat
RkSeason ▴TeamMinGlsxGG−xGxG/90VAEPOffDefVAEP/90xTxT/90DAxT
12023San Diego Wave6600.190.26-0.070.260.230.310.017
1 Yr6600.000.000.000.190.26-0.070.260.230.310.017

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
RkSeason ▴xGCarriesBox PassesDefenseGKCompositeRankPool
120241.500-0.414-0.5720.079241338

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)
RkSeason ▴StartsGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTRead
12023222played her role
1 Yr222played her role

Similar Players

Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.

RkPlayerTeamSeasonPosSimilarity
1M.A. VignolaAngel City2023Defender0.837
2Casey KruegerSpirit2025Defender0.807
3Arin WrightStars2021Defender0.782
4Shae HolmesReign2025Defender0.776
5Kylie NadanerPride2023Defender0.768
6Gabrielle CarleSpirit2023Defender0.766
7Allysha ChapmanDash2021Defender0.754
8Alyssa MalonsonBay FC2024Defender0.753
9Kerry AbelloPride2024Defender0.744
10Madison PogarchRoyals2025Defender0.743