Players›Jess McDonald
Jess McDonald
- Position:
- Forward
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1988-02-28 (age 38)
- Height:
- 183 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 123 GP · 9,165 min · 33 goals · 27 assists
Composite 2022: 0.432 — ranked 68 of 247 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 | Flash | 19 | 19 | 1747 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 62 | 41 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0.52 | 0.88 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Courage | 19 | 11 | 1125 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 20 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0.32 | 0.48 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Courage | 23 | 21 | 1716 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 75 | 42 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 0.37 | 0.79 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Courage | 14 | 9 | 900 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 39 | 26 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0.50 | 0.80 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Courage | 22 | 20 | 1683 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 47 | 23 | 25 | 66.8 | 0 | 0 | 0.21 | 0.37 |
| 6 | 2022 | Racing | 22 | 19 | 1739 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 28 | 12 | 22 | 61.2 | 1 | 0 | 0.16 | 0.36 |
| 7 | 2023 | Racing | 4 | 4 | 255 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 56.3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 7 Yrs | 123 | 103 | 9165 | 33 | 27 | 0 | 293 | 165 | 140 | 63.1 | 3 | 0 | 0.32 | 0.59 | ||
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 | Flash | 1747 | 10 | 4.68 | 5.32 | 0.24 | 5.91 | 6.21 | -0.30 | 0.30 | 5.26 | 0.27 | 0.203 |
| 2 | 2017 | Courage | 1125 | 4 | 3.80 | 0.20 | 0.30 | 2.57 | 2.87 | -0.30 | 0.21 | 3.30 | 0.26 | 0.164 |
| 3 | 2018 | Courage | 1716 | 7 | 8.86 | -1.86 | 0.46 | 5.77 | 6.54 | -0.77 | 0.30 | 4.96 | 0.26 | 0.089 |
| 4 | 2019 | Courage | 900 | 5 | 3.99 | 1.01 | 0.40 | 4.44 | 4.65 | -0.21 | 0.44 | 2.74 | 0.27 | 0.069 |
| 5 | 2021 | Courage | 1683 | 4 | 5.59 | -1.59 | 0.30 | 2.81 | 3.22 | -0.41 | 0.15 | 3.39 | 0.18 | 0.124 |
| 6 | 2022 | Racing Lou | 1739 | 3 | 3.85 | -0.85 | 0.20 | 1.89 | 2.15 | -0.26 | 0.10 | 3.85 | 0.20 | 0.162 |
| 7 | 2023 | Racing Lou | 255 | 0 | 0.44 | -0.44 | 0.16 | -0.80 | -0.54 | -0.27 | -0.28 | 0.60 | 0.21 | 0.027 |
| 7 Yrs | 9165 | 33 | 31.21 | 1.79 | 0.31 | 22.59 | 25.10 | -2.52 | 0.22 | 24.10 | 0.24 | 0.838 | ||
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 | 1.259 | -0.454 | -0.411 | -0.289 | 0.432 | 68 | 247 | |
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 | 21 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 20 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 10 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 23 | 23 | 23 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 8 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 2021 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 3 | 21 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 6 | 2022 | 23 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 10 | a 9, played like a winger | |||||||||||
| 7 | 2023 | 4 | 4 | 4 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 7 Yrs | 117 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 91 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 92 | 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 Cronin | Racing | 2023 | Forward | 0.760 |
| 2 | Ryan Gareis | Dash | 2022 | Forward | 0.664 |
| 3 | Madison Curry | Reign | 2026 | Defender | 0.606 |
| 4 | Tyler Lussi | Courage | 2025 | Forward | 0.605 |
| 5 | Jaelene Daniels | Courage | 2022 | Defender | 0.603 |
| 6 | M.A. Vignola | Angel City | 2023 | Defender | 0.585 |
| 7 | Amanda West | Dash | 2024 | Forward | 0.575 |
| 8 | Ryanne Brown | Reign | 2024 | Defender | 0.568 |
| 9 | Jill Aguilera | Stars | 2022 | Defender | 0.566 |
| 10 | Casey Krueger | Spirit | 2025 | Defender | 0.560 |