Players›Ellie Bravo-Young
Ellie Bravo-Young
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 2001-12-14 (age 24)
- Height:
- 170 cm
Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 56 GP · 3,600 min · 3 goals · 1 assists
Composite 2026: -0.122 — ranked 246 of 385 Composite page →
Standard Stats
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 | 2024 | KC Current | 1601 | 1 | 1.01 | -0.01 | 0.06 | 0.39 | 1.56 | -1.17 | 0.02 | 3.63 | 0.20 | 0.375 |
| 2 | 2025 | KC Current | 1356 | 2 | 0.80 | 1.20 | 0.05 | 1.56 | 2.32 | -0.75 | 0.10 | 3.71 | 0.25 | 0.250 |
| 3 | 2026 | KC Current | 643 | 0 | 0.10 | -0.10 | 0.01 | 0.40 | 0.78 | -0.38 | 0.06 | 2.83 | 0.40 | 0.140 |
| 3 Yrs | 3600 | 3 | 1.91 | 1.09 | 0.05 | 2.35 | 4.66 | -2.30 | 0.06 | 10.17 | 0.25 | 0.765 | ||
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 | 2024 | 1.178 | 1.289 | -0.211 | 0.196 | 0.479 | 93 | 338 | |
| 2 | 2025 | 0.422 | 1.049 | -0.819 | 0.949 | 0.365 | 96 | 258 | |
| 3 | 2026 | 0.233 | -0.065 | -0.994 | 0.409 | 0.000 | -0.122 | 246 | 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 | 2024 | 21 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 2 | 2025 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 12 | 3 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2026 | 7 | 7 | 7 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 43 | 40 | 2 | 1 | 34 | 9 | 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 | Haley McCutcheon | Dash | 2021 | Defender | 0.854 |
| 2 | Nealy Martin | Racing | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.829 |
| 3 | Celia Jiménez | Pride | 2022 | Defender | 0.825 |
| 4 | Camryn Biegalski | Stars | 2025 | Defender | 0.816 |
| 5 | Maximiliane Rall | Stars | 2024 | Defender | 0.811 |
| 6 | Kate Del Fava | Current | 2023 | Defender | 0.811 |
| 7 | Kiki Pickett | Current | 2021 | Midfielder | 0.802 |
| 8 | Lauren Milliet | Racing | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.799 |
| 9 | Olivia Griffitts | Royals | 2024 | Defender | 0.788 |
| 10 | Dorian Bailey | Spirit | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.779 |