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Messiah Bright
- Position:
- Forward
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 2000-01-12 (age 26)
- Height:
- 175 cm
Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 77 GP · 3,509 min · 9 goals · 1 assists
Composite 2026: -0.134 — ranked 251 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 | Pride | 1379 | 6 | 5.59 | 0.41 | 0.36 | 2.23 | 3.46 | -1.24 | 0.15 | 1.67 | 0.11 | 0.193 |
| 2 | 2024 | Angel City | 679 | 1 | 1.71 | -0.71 | 0.23 | -1.69 | -1.33 | -0.36 | -0.22 | 0.95 | 0.13 | 0.102 |
| 3 | 2025 | Dash | 1260 | 2 | 2.19 | -0.19 | 0.16 | -0.65 | -0.35 | -0.30 | -0.05 | 0.72 | 0.05 | 0.221 |
| 4 | 2026 | Dash | 191 | 0 | 0.65 | -0.65 | 0.31 | -0.84 | -0.79 | -0.05 | -0.40 | 0.17 | 0.08 | 0.046 |
| 4 Yrs | 3509 | 9 | 10.14 | -1.14 | 0.26 | -0.95 | 0.99 | -1.95 | -0.02 | 3.51 | 0.09 | 0.562 | ||
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 | 1.091 | 1.248 | 0.254 | -1.022 | 0.730 | 27 | 240 | |
| 2 | 2024 | 0.830 | 1.128 | 0.289 | -1.227 | 0.542 | 78 | 338 | |
| 3 | 2025 | 0.073 | 0.950 | 0.492 | -1.351 | 0.120 | 164 | 258 | |
| 4 | 2026 | -0.198 | 0.381 | 0.086 | -0.922 | 0.000 | -0.134 | 251 | 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 | 19 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 18 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2024 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 9 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 2025 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 11 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 2026 | 2 | 2 | 2 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 Yrs | 44 | 2 | 42 | 1 | 3 | 40 | 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 | Mariana Larroquette | Pride | 2024 | Forward | 0.578 |
| 2 | Yuna McCormack | Summit | 2026 | Midfielder | 0.565 |
| 3 | Jéssica Silva | Gotham | 2025 | Forward | 0.533 |
| 4 | Zoey Goralski | Stars | 2021 | Defender | 0.529 |
| 5 | Joelle Catherine Johnson | Current | 2021 | Forward | 0.502 |
| 6 | Hannah Betfort | Thorns | 2022 | Forward | 0.495 |
| 7 | Sofia Cook | Gotham | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.484 |
| 8 | Mariana Speckmaier | Spirit | 2021 | Midfielder | 0.483 |
| 9 | Maddie Mercado | Reign | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.483 |
| 10 | Stella Nyamekye | Gotham | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.478 |