Players›Christen Westphal
Christen Westphal
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1993-09-02 (age 32)
- Height:
- 168 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 128 GP · 8,807 min · 1 goals · 8 assists
Composite 2026: 0.306 — ranked 137 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 | 13 | 7 | 615 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.15 | 0.15 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Breakers | 13 | 13 | 1181 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.08 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Reign | 12 | 9 | 751 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.12 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Reign | 4 | 1 | 169 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Thorns | 15 | 10 | 786 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 71.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 6 | 2022 | Wave | 24 | 22 | 1987 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 69.6 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.09 |
| 7 | 2023 | Wave | 23 | 23 | 2057 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 75.9 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.18 |
| 8 | 2024 | Wave | 15 | 8 | 725 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 74.4 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 9 | 2025 | Dash | 9 | 7 | 536 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 79.8 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 10 | 2026 | Dash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 10 Yrs | 128 | 100 | 8807 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 56 | 73.6 | 6 | 0 | 0.01 | 0.09 | ||
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 | 2016 | Breakers | 615 | 1 | 0.07 | 0.93 | 0.01 | 1.14 | 1.40 | -0.26 | 0.17 | 1.61 | 0.24 | 0.212 |
| 2 | 2017 | Breakers | 1181 | 0 | 0.95 | 1.24 | -0.30 | 0.07 | 2.73 | 0.21 | 0.530 | |||
| 3 | 2018 | Reign | 751 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | -0.02 | 0.59 | -0.61 | 0.00 | 1.90 | 0.23 | 0.368 |
| 4 | 2019 | Reign | 169 | 0 | 0.07 | -0.07 | 0.04 | -0.21 | -0.05 | -0.16 | -0.11 | 0.44 | 0.24 | 0.043 |
| 5 | 2021 | Thorns | 786 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | 1.53 | 2.37 | -0.85 | 0.17 | 3.67 | 0.42 | 0.300 |
| 6 | 2022 | San Diego Wave | 1987 | 0 | 0.12 | -0.12 | 0.01 | 3.28 | 4.67 | -1.39 | 0.15 | 6.71 | 0.30 | 0.481 |
| 7 | 2023 | San Diego Wave | 2057 | 0 | 0.23 | -0.23 | 0.01 | 1.71 | 3.26 | -1.55 | 0.07 | 6.03 | 0.26 | 0.524 |
| 8 | 2024 | San Diego Wave | 725 | 0 | 1.01 | 2.04 | -1.03 | 0.12 | 2.37 | 0.29 | 0.151 | |||
| 9 | 2025 | Dash | 536 | 0 | -0.29 | 0.58 | -0.87 | -0.05 | 1.38 | 0.23 | 0.168 | |||
| 10 | 2026 | Dash | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 10 Yrs | 8807 | 1 | 0.55 | 0.45 | 0.01 | 9.10 | 16.10 | -7.02 | 0.09 | 26.84 | 0.27 | 2.777 | ||
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 | -0.240 | 0.388 | -0.159 | 0.620 | 0.199 | 128 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2023 | -0.438 | 0.586 | -1.172 | 1.277 | 0.112 | 163 | 240 | |
| 3 | 2025 | -1.057 | 0.758 | -1.247 | 1.779 | 0.191 | 139 | 258 | |
| 4 | 2026 | -1.054 | 0.590 | -0.711 | 1.673 | 0.306 | 137 | 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 | 2016 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 7 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 10 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 9 | 9 | 9 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 1 | 1 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | 2020 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 8 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 6 | 2021 | 12 | 12 | 12 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | 2022 | 28 | 28 | 28 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | 2023 | 27 | 27 | 27 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | 2024 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 11 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 10 | 2025 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 10 Yrs | 124 | 106 | 17 | 1 | 108 | 16 | 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 | Paige Nielsen | Dash | 2024 | Defender | 0.853 |
| 2 | Natalie Jacobs | Dash | 2025 | Defender | 0.841 |
| 3 | Phoebe McClernon | Reign | 2024 | Defender | 0.834 |
| 4 | Tara Rudd | Spirit | 2025 | Defender | 0.810 |
| 5 | Isabella Obaze | Thorns | 2025 | Defender | 0.801 |
| 6 | Julia Lester | Racing | 2022 | Defender | 0.787 |
| 7 | Kaleigh Kurtz | Courage | 2025 | Defender | 0.785 |
| 8 | Natalia Kuikka | Stars | 2024 | Defender | 0.783 |
| 9 | Brooklyn Courtnall | Bay FC | 2025 | Defender | 0.782 |
| 10 | Emily Menges | Bay FC | 2024 | Defender | 0.778 |