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Natalie Jacobs
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1997-08-16 (age 28)
- Height:
- 173 cm
Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 79 GP · 5,825 min · 1 goals · 5 assists
Composite 2026: 0.356 — ranked 124 of 385 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 | 2021 | Spirit | 4 | 1 | 167 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 78.4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.54 |
| 2 | 2022 | Dash | 15 | 10 | 837 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 63.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.32 |
| 3 | 2023 | Dash | 20 | 20 | 1689 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 80.1 | 4 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 4 | 2024 | Dash | 16 | 14 | 1239 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 84.3 | 2 | 0 | 0.07 | 0.15 |
| 5 | 2025 | Dash | 22 | 19 | 1719 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 82.6 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 6 | 2026 | Courage | 2 | 2 | 174 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 85.0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 6 Yrs | 79 | 66 | 5825 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 21 | 5 | 22 | 80.2 | 9 | 1 | 0.02 | 0.09 | ||
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 | 2021 | Spirit | 167 | 0 | 0.07 | -0.07 | 0.04 | 0.33 | 0.22 | 0.11 | 0.18 | 0.11 | 0.06 | 0.027 |
| 2 | 2022 | Dash | 837 | 0 | 0.20 | -0.20 | 0.02 | 0.16 | 0.55 | -0.38 | 0.02 | 2.31 | 0.25 | 0.301 |
| 3 | 2023 | Dash | 1689 | 0 | 0.27 | -0.27 | 0.01 | -1.49 | 0.88 | -2.37 | -0.08 | 3.00 | 0.16 | 0.248 |
| 4 | 2024 | Dash | 1239 | 1 | 0.49 | 0.51 | 0.04 | 1.57 | 1.90 | -0.33 | 0.11 | 2.76 | 0.20 | 0.283 |
| 5 | 2025 | Dash | 1719 | 0 | 1.25 | -1.25 | 0.07 | 0.83 | 1.82 | -0.99 | 0.04 | 5.18 | 0.27 | 0.523 |
| 6 | 2026 | Courage | 174 | 0 | 0.09 | 0.29 | -0.20 | 0.05 | 1.24 | 0.64 | 0.078 | |||
| 6 Yrs | 5825 | 1 | 2.28 | -1.28 | 0.04 | 1.49 | 5.66 | -4.16 | 0.02 | 14.60 | 0.23 | 1.460 | ||
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 | 2022 | -0.006 | 0.203 | 0.206 | 0.446 | 0.000 | 0.254 | 105 | 247 |
| 2 | 2023 | -0.704 | 0.670 | -0.593 | 1.699 | 0.583 | 47 | 240 | |
| 3 | 2024 | 0.045 | 0.303 | -0.836 | 2.158 | 0.598 | 61 | 338 | |
| 4 | 2025 | -0.678 | 0.166 | -0.023 | 1.702 | 0.605 | 49 | 258 | |
| 5 | 2026 | -1.100 | 0.297 | -0.114 | 0.623 | 1.211 | 0.356 | 124 | 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 | 2020 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2021 | 3 | 3 | 3 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2022 | 10 | 10 | 10 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2023 | 23 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 3 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 5 | 2024 | 17 | 1 | 16 | 16 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 2025 | 19 | 4 | 15 | 6 | 13 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 7 | 2026 | 2 | 2 | 2 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 7 Yrs | 79 | 19 | 53 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 51 | 8 | 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 | Erin Dorothy Simon | Racing | 2022 | Defender | 0.665 |
| 2 | Sofia Huerta | Reign | 2024 | Defender | 0.598 |
| 3 | Kate Del Fava | Royals | 2025 | Defender | 0.573 |
| 4 | Esme Morgan | Spirit | 2026 | Defender | 0.567 |
| 5 | Carrie Lawrence | Pride | 2022 | Defender | 0.558 |
| 6 | Caprice Dydasco | Dash | 2023 | Defender | 0.553 |
| 7 | Tara Rudd | Spirit | 2024 | Defender | 0.550 |
| 8 | Ali Krieger | Pride | 2021 | Defender | 0.549 |
| 9 | Jordyn Bugg | Reign | 2025 | Defender | 0.548 |
| 10 | Kelli Hubly | Thorns | 2022 | Defender | 0.545 |