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Kim Little

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: Scotland
Born:: 1990-06-29 (age 36)
Height:: 162 cm

Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 26 GP · 2,391 min · 6 goals · 3 assists

Composite 2022: 0.184 — ranked 132 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	Reign	20	20	1896	6	2	0	32	21	33		0	0	0.28	0.38
2	2022	Reign	6	6	495	0	1	0	6	4	8	84.4	0	0	0.00	0.18
	2 Yrs		26	26	2391	6	3	0	38	25	41	84.4	0	0	0.23	0.34

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	2016	Reign	1896	6	4.75	1.25	0.23	4.27	4.26	0.01	0.20	3.25	0.15	0.423
2	2022	Reign	495	0	0.14	-0.14	0.03	-0.62	-0.61	-0.01	-0.11	0.54	0.10	0.101
	2 Yrs		2391	6	4.89	1.11	0.18	3.65	3.65	0.00	0.14	3.79	0.14	0.524

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	2022	-0.007	-1.380	1.337	0.431	0.000	0.184	132	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	20				5	9	1	3	2				8	1	5	3	3	an 8, played like a 6
2	2022	6					5		1					1	1	3		1	an 8, played like a 10
	2 Yrs	26				5	14	1	4	2				9	2	8	3	4	an 8, played like a 6

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

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10	Jess Fishlock	Reign	2022	Midfielder	0.621