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Kaitlyn Torpey

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: Australia
Born:: 2000-03-17 (age 26)
Height:: 166 cm

Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 34 GP · 1,685 min · 0 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2025: -0.037 — ranked 251 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	2024	Wave	14	4	513	0	0	0	3	2	6	73.7	2	0	0.00	0.00
2	2025	Thorns	20	15	1172	0	0	0	2	1	7	78.9	4	0	0.00	0.00
	2 Yrs		34	19	1685	0	0	0	5	3	13	76.9	6	0	0.00	0.00

Advanced Stats

Glossary

					Expected			VAEP				Threat
Rk	Season ▴	Team	Min	Gls	xG	G−xG	xG/90	VAEP	Off	Def	VAEP/90	xT	xT/90	DAxT
1	2024	San Diego Wave	513	0	0.28	-0.28	0.05	0.12	0.50	-0.38	0.02	1.64	0.29	0.183
2	2025	Thorns	1172	0	0.03	-0.03	0.00	-0.30	0.67	-0.96	-0.02	2.25	0.17	0.296
	2 Yrs		1685	0	0.31	-0.31	0.02	-0.18	1.17	-1.34	-0.01	3.89	0.21	0.479

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.

Glossary

		Components
Rk	Season ▴	xG	Carries	Box Passes	Defense	GK	Composite	Rank	Pool
1	2024	-0.057	0.414	-0.192	0.164		0.086	236	338
2	2025	-0.533	-0.667	-0.315	1.015		-0.037	251	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	2024	4		4								4							played her role
2	2025	15		15								15							played her role
	2 Yrs	19		19								19							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	Current	2023	Defender	0.903
2	Lauren Milliet	Racing	2024	Midfielder	0.868
3	Haley McCutcheon	Pride	2023	Defender	0.867
4	Celia Jiménez	Pride	2022	Defender	0.854
5	Paige Metayer	Spirit	2024	Midfielder	0.852
6	Maximiliane Rall	Stars	2024	Defender	0.851
7	Annaïg Butel	Spirit	2023	Defender	0.849
8	Camryn Biegalski	Stars	2025	Defender	0.834
9	Jess Carter	Gotham	2024	Defender	0.820
10	Natalia Kuikka	Thorns	2023	Defender	0.818