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PlayersKelcie Hedge

Kelcie Hedge

Position:
Midfielder
Nationality:
USA
Born:
1997-09-19 (age 28)
Height:
170 cm

Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 6 GP · 199 min · 0 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2022: -0.071 — ranked 246 of 247 Composite page →

Standard Stats

Glossary
Playing TimePerformancePer 90
RkSeasonTeamGPGSMinGlsAstPKShSoTKPPass%CrdYCrdRGls/90G+A/90
12021Reign23800000162.1000.000.00
22022Dash3216000010173.8100.000.00
32023Dash1100000000.000.00
3 Yrs6219900010270.0100.000.00

Advanced Stats

Glossary
ExpectedVAEPThreat
RkSeasonTeamMinGlsxGG−xGxG/90VAEPOffDefVAEP/90xTxT/90DAxT
12021Reign3800.07-0.070.17-0.13-0.08-0.05-0.310.070.170.038
22022Dash16000.03-0.030.02-0.090.08-0.18-0.050.130.070.067
32023Dash10
3 Yrs19900.10-0.100.05-0.220.00-0.23-0.100.200.090.105

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
RkSeasonxGCarriesBox PassesDefenseGKCompositeRankPool
12022-0.003-0.6920.0600.281-0.071246247

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)
RkSeasonStartsGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTRead
120224224played her role
1 Yr4224played her role

Similar Players

Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.

RkPlayerTeamSeasonPosSimilarity
1Jordyn ListroCurrent2021Midfielder0.713
2Dana FoedererRoyals2025Midfielder0.681
3Sammy SmithLegacy2026Forward0.657
4Katie JohnsonStars2020Forward0.623
5Mikayla CluffPride2023Midfielder0.622
6S. VerdoiaBreakers2016Midfielder0.615
7Kylie NadanerPride2021Defender0.593
8Madison PogarchThorns2019Defender0.590
9Morgan GautratPride2024Midfielder0.586
10Dani WeatherholtAngel City2022Midfielder0.583