Players›Maddie Mercado
Maddie Mercado
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 2001-04-01 (age 25)
- Height:
- 173 cm
Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 33 GP · 1,683 min · 4 goals · 1 assists
Composite 2026: 0.528 — ranked 81 of 385 Composite page →
Standard Stats
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 | 2024 | Reign | 32 | 1 | 0.25 | 0.75 | 0.70 | 1.48 | 1.52 | -0.03 | 4.17 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.005 |
| 2 | 2025 | Reign | 640 | 0 | 0.81 | -0.81 | 0.11 | -1.52 | -1.24 | -0.28 | -0.21 | 0.36 | 0.05 | 0.133 |
| 3 | 2026 | Reign | 1011 | 3 | 2.93 | 0.07 | 0.26 | 0.04 | 0.32 | -0.28 | 0.00 | 2.94 | 0.26 | 0.129 |
| 3 Yrs | 1683 | 4 | 3.99 | 0.01 | 0.21 | -0.00 | 0.60 | -0.59 | -0.00 | 3.31 | 0.18 | 0.267 | ||
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 | 2024 | 1.021 | -0.743 | 0.712 | 0.775 | 0.512 | 82 | 338 | |
| 2 | 2025 | 1.132 | -0.904 | 0.729 | 0.024 | 0.417 | 81 | 258 | |
| 3 | 2026 | 0.480 | 0.116 | 1.059 | 1.021 | 0.000 | 0.528 | 81 | 385 |
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 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | an 8, played like a 6 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 2025 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2026 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 8 | played her role | |||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 20 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 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 | Mia Fishel | Reign | 2025 | Forward | 0.773 |
| 2 | Chardonnay Curran | Stars | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.740 |
| 3 | Aisha Solórzano | Royals | 2025 | Forward | 0.720 |
| 4 | Elyse Bennett | Reign | 2023 | Forward | 0.717 |
| 5 | Mak Whitham | Gotham | 2025 | Forward | 0.713 |
| 6 | Jorian Nicole Baucom | Racing | 2021 | Forward | 0.711 |
| 7 | Kyra Carusa | Wave | 2024 | Forward | 0.702 |
| 8 | Chiamaka Okwuchukwu | Wave | 2025 | Forward | 0.693 |
| 9 | Ifeoma Onumonu | Gotham | 2022 | Forward | 0.689 |
| 10 | Katie Lampson | Gotham | 2023 | Forward | 0.682 |