NWSL Notebook

PlayersKirsten Wright

Kirsten Wright

Kirsten Wright

Position:
Forward
Nationality:
USA
Born:
1998-09-08 (age 27)
Height:
175 cm

Career (2022–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 39 GP · 2,098 min · 6 goals · 2 assists

Composite 2023: 0.152 — ranked 153 of 240 Composite page →

Standard Stats

Glossary
Playing TimePerformancePer 90
RkSeasonTeamGPGSMinGlsAstPKShSoTKPPass%CrdYCrdRGls/90G+A/90
12022Racing1810886210229662.0100.200.30
22023Racing2115121241027132270.8100.300.37
32025000000000
3 Yrs3925209862049222867.5200.260.34

Advanced Stats

Glossary
ExpectedVAEPThreat
RkSeasonTeamMinGlsxGG−xGxG/90VAEPOffDefVAEP/90xTxT/90DAxT
12022Racing Lou88622.68-0.680.27-0.260.06-0.32-0.031.130.110.080
22023Racing Lou121244.04-0.040.301.741.98-0.240.131.300.100.067
3202500
3 Yrs209866.72-0.720.291.482.04-0.560.062.430.100.147

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
12023-0.3311.558-0.193-0.3490.152153240

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
120221459158played her role
2202320218317played her role
2 Yrs347271825played her role

Similar Players

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

RkPlayerTeamSeasonPosSimilarity
1Brittany RatcliffeCourage2022Forward0.878
2Simone CharleyThorns2021Forward0.873
3Kyra CarusaWave2024Forward0.859
4Messiah BrightPride2023Forward0.858
5Gabi PortilhoGotham2025Forward0.858
6Veronica LatskoDash2021Forward0.856
7Pietra TordinThorns2025Forward0.845
8Olivia WingateCourage2023Forward0.844
9Kristen HamiltonCurrent2022Forward0.844
10Ifeoma OnumonuGotham2022Forward0.844