Players›Denise O'Sullivan
Denise O'Sullivan
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Nationality:
- Republic of Ireland
- Born:
- 1994-02-04 (age 32)
- Height:
- 163 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 187 GP · 15,414 min · 5 goals · 18 assists
Composite 2025: 0.534 — ranked 62 of 258 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 | Dash | 18 | 14 | 1365 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 26 | 14 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0.13 | 0.46 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Dash | 18 | 11 | 1013 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.09 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Courage | 22 | 20 | 1822 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 21 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.15 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Courage | 23 | 22 | 2179 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.04 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Courage | 24 | 24 | 2085 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 85.5 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 6 | 2022 | Courage | 19 | 18 | 1583 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 85.1 | 3 | 0 | 0.06 | 0.17 |
| 7 | 2023 | Courage | 21 | 21 | 1842 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 16 | 86.0 | 3 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.10 |
| 8 | 2024 | Courage | 24 | 22 | 2020 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 87.8 | 6 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.18 |
| 9 | 2025 | Courage | 18 | 17 | 1505 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 85.8 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.12 |
| 9 Yrs | 187 | 169 | 15414 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 99 | 59 | 139 | 86.1 | 23 | 0 | 0.03 | 0.13 | ||
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 | Dash | 1365 | 2 | 0.92 | 1.08 | 0.06 | 1.73 | 1.40 | 0.34 | 0.11 | 1.91 | 0.13 | 0.513 |
| 2 | 2017 | Dash | 1013 | 0 | 0.22 | -0.22 | 0.02 | 1.48 | 1.53 | -0.05 | 0.13 | 0.89 | 0.08 | 0.452 |
| 3 | 2018 | Courage | 1822 | 0 | 0.72 | -0.72 | 0.04 | -0.76 | -0.34 | -0.42 | -0.04 | 2.35 | 0.12 | 0.736 |
| 4 | 2019 | Courage | 2179 | 0 | 0.05 | -0.05 | 0.00 | 0.34 | 0.91 | -0.57 | 0.01 | 1.95 | 0.08 | 0.947 |
| 5 | 2021 | Courage | 2085 | 0 | 0.84 | 1.68 | -0.85 | 0.04 | 1.30 | 0.06 | 1.269 | |||
| 6 | 2022 | Courage | 1583 | 1 | 0.24 | 0.76 | 0.01 | 0.73 | 2.30 | -1.56 | 0.04 | 1.57 | 0.09 | 0.781 |
| 7 | 2023 | Courage | 1842 | 1 | 0.61 | 0.39 | 0.03 | 1.79 | 2.61 | -0.83 | 0.09 | 1.23 | 0.06 | 0.822 |
| 8 | 2024 | Courage | 2020 | 1 | 0.54 | 0.46 | 0.02 | 0.75 | 1.27 | -0.52 | 0.03 | 1.18 | 0.05 | 1.000 |
| 9 | 2025 | Courage | 1505 | 0 | 0.55 | -0.55 | 0.03 | 0.29 | 0.80 | -0.50 | 0.02 | 1.44 | 0.09 | 0.878 |
| 9 Yrs | 15414 | 5 | 3.85 | 1.15 | 0.02 | 7.19 | 12.16 | -4.96 | 0.04 | 13.82 | 0.08 | 7.398 | ||
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 | 0.331 | 0.483 | 1.441 | -1.200 | 0.243 | 109 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2023 | 0.901 | 0.449 | 1.956 | -1.211 | 0.471 | 61 | 240 | |
| 3 | 2024 | 0.814 | 0.326 | 2.383 | -1.367 | 0.508 | 83 | 338 | |
| 4 | 2025 | 0.823 | 0.105 | 2.292 | -1.011 | 0.534 | 62 | 258 | |
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 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | an 8, played like a 6 | |||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | an 8, played like a 10 | |||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 22 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 24 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 2 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||
| 5 | 2020 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 6 | 2021 | 27 | 4 | 22 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 1 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||||
| 7 | 2022 | 26 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 1 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||
| 8 | 2023 | 25 | 8 | 17 | 22 | 2 | 1 | an 8, played like a 6 | |||||||||||
| 9 | 2024 | 24 | 5 | 19 | 22 | 1 | 1 | an 8, played like a 6 | |||||||||||
| 10 | 2025 | 17 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 1 | an 8, played like a 6 | |||||||||
| 10 Yrs | 196 | 38 | 131 | 9 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 140 | 21 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 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 | Malia Berkely | Courage | 2022 | Defender | 0.820 |
| 2 | McCall Zerboni | Gotham | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.815 |
| 3 | Desiree Scott | Current | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.802 |
| 4 | Narumi Miura | Courage | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.799 |
| 5 | Dani Weatherholt | Angel City | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.795 |
| 6 | Inès Jaurena | Spirit | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.785 |
| 7 | Emily Sonnett | Reign | 2023 | Defender | 0.769 |
| 8 | Hina Sugita | Thorns | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.753 |
| 9 | Cari Roccaro | Angel City | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.752 |
| 10 | Mikayla Cluff | Pride | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.742 |