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Elizabeth Ball
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1995-10-20 (age 30)
- Height:
- 168 cm
Career (2018–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 106 GP · 7,471 min · 2 goals · 4 assists
Composite 2026: -0.051 — ranked 236 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 | 2018 | Thorns | 6 | 0 | 136 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 2 | 2019 | Thorns | 15 | 13 | 1132 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 3 | 2022 | Current | 24 | 23 | 1984 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 75.7 | 5 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.05 |
| 4 | 2023 | Current | 13 | 12 | 963 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 81.1 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 5 | 2024 | Current | 19 | 12 | 1216 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 79.3 | 0 | 0 | 0.07 | 0.30 |
| 6 | 2025 | Current | 20 | 15 | 1407 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 89.4 | 1 | 0 | 0.06 | 0.06 | |
| 7 | 2026 | Current | 9 | 7 | 633 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 84.9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 7 Yrs | 106 | 82 | 7471 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 16 | 82.1 | 9 | 0 | 0.02 | 0.07 | ||
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 | 2018 | Thorns | 136 | 0 | 0.10 | 0.16 | -0.06 | 0.06 | 0.32 | 0.21 | 0.038 | |||
| 2 | 2019 | Thorns | 1132 | 0 | 0.10 | -0.10 | 0.01 | 0.59 | 1.46 | -0.87 | 0.05 | 4.40 | 0.35 | 0.394 |
| 3 | 2022 | KC Current | 1984 | 0 | 0.27 | -0.27 | 0.01 | -1.55 | 1.68 | -3.22 | -0.07 | 2.79 | 0.13 | 0.520 |
| 4 | 2023 | KC Current | 963 | 0 | 0.50 | -0.50 | 0.05 | 0.12 | 0.95 | -0.83 | 0.01 | 2.07 | 0.19 | 0.192 |
| 5 | 2024 | KC Current | 1216 | 1 | 1.48 | -0.48 | 0.11 | 1.37 | 1.96 | -0.59 | 0.10 | 2.42 | 0.18 | 0.341 |
| 6 | 2025 | KC Current | 1407 | 1 | 0.85 | 0.15 | 0.05 | 1.43 | 1.85 | -0.42 | 0.09 | 2.07 | 0.13 | 0.240 |
| 7 | 2026 | KC Current | 633 | 0 | 0.14 | -0.14 | 0.02 | 0.65 | 0.75 | -0.09 | 0.09 | 1.34 | 0.19 | 0.178 |
| 7 Yrs | 7471 | 2 | 3.34 | -1.34 | 0.04 | 2.71 | 8.81 | -6.08 | 0.03 | 15.41 | 0.19 | 1.903 | ||
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 | -0.417 | 1.499 | 1.139 | 1.405 | 1.257 | 5 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2023 | -1.729 | 0.250 | 1.836 | -0.741 | 0.280 | 117 | 240 | |
| 3 | 2024 | -1.393 | 0.226 | 1.648 | -0.525 | 0.309 | 143 | 338 | |
| 4 | 2025 | -0.355 | 0.130 | 1.461 | -0.581 | 0.256 | 121 | 258 | |
| 5 | 2026 | -0.293 | -0.736 | 0.040 | -0.039 | 0.066 | -0.051 | 236 | 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 | 2019 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 2 | 2020 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 5 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 2021 | 16 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 14 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 2022 | 27 | 27 | 24 | 3 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 2023 | 17 | 17 | 17 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | 2024 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 7 | 2025 | 15 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 14 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 8 | 2026 | 7 | 7 | 7 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 8 Yrs | 116 | 13 | 103 | 17 | 94 | 4 | 1 | 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 | Kate Del Fava | Royals | 2025 | Defender | 0.881 |
| 2 | Abby Dahlkemper | Bay FC | 2025 | Defender | 0.857 |
| 3 | Kaleigh Riehl | Wave | 2022 | Defender | 0.847 |
| 4 | Maycee Bell | Courage | 2025 | Defender | 0.837 |
| 5 | Kayla Sharples | Stars | 2022 | Defender | 0.835 |
| 6 | Alana Cook | Current | 2025 | Defender | 0.828 |
| 7 | Jenna Walker | Current | 2023 | Defender | 0.822 |
| 8 | Diane Evelyn Caldwell | Courage | 2021 | Defender | 0.819 |
| 9 | Croix Soto | Current | 2023 | Defender | 0.817 |
| 10 | Megan Montefusco | Pride | 2023 | Defender | 0.815 |