Players›Melanie Barcenas
Melanie Barcenas
- Position:
- Forward
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 2007-10-30 (age 18)
- Height:
- 163 cm
Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 48 GP · 1,499 min · 5 goals · 2 assists
Composite 2026: -0.382 — ranked 308 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 | 2023 | San Diego Wave | 116 | 0 | 0.23 | -0.23 | 0.18 | -0.09 | 0.07 | -0.16 | -0.07 | 0.25 | 0.20 | 0.069 |
| 2 | 2024 | San Diego Wave | 446 | 1 | 0.62 | 0.38 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.31 | -0.17 | 0.03 | 0.67 | 0.14 | 0.152 |
| 3 | 2025 | San Diego Wave | 458 | 1 | 0.37 | 0.63 | 0.07 | 0.76 | 0.85 | -0.10 | 0.15 | 0.70 | 0.14 | 0.159 |
| 4 | 2026 | San Diego Wave | 479 | 3 | 1.53 | 1.47 | 0.29 | 1.01 | 1.37 | -0.36 | 0.19 | 4.03 | 0.76 | 0.180 |
| 4 Yrs | 1499 | 5 | 2.75 | 2.25 | 0.17 | 1.81 | 2.60 | -0.79 | 0.11 | 5.65 | 0.34 | 0.560 | ||
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 | 2023 | 0.561 | -0.294 | -0.410 | 0.049 | 173 | 240 | ||
| 2 | 2026 | 0.280 | -0.647 | -0.491 | -0.575 | 0.000 | -0.382 | 308 | 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 | 2023 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2024 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | an 8, played like a winger | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2025 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 2026 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | a winger, played like an 8 | |||||||||||||
| 4 Yrs | 14 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 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 | Penelope Hocking | Bay FC | 2025 | Forward | 0.813 |
| 2 | Kimmi Ascanio | Wave | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.802 |
| 3 | Courtney Brown | Spirit | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.797 |
| 4 | Cece Delzer | Gotham | 2024 | Forward | 0.741 |
| 5 | Maddie Dahlien | Reign | 2025 | Forward | 0.727 |
| 6 | Tziarra King | Reign | 2022 | Forward | 0.725 |
| 7 | Aline Gomes | Courage | 2024 | Forward | 0.712 |
| 8 | Alexa Spaanstra | Current | 2023 | Forward | 0.683 |
| 9 | Brianna Pinto | Gotham | 2021 | Midfielder | 0.677 |
| 10 | Uchenna Kanu | Racing | 2024 | Forward | 0.677 |