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Nikki Stanton
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1990-10-26 (age 35)
- Height:
- 170 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 118 GP · 5,282 min · 0 goals · 3 assists
Composite 2023: 0.202 — ranked 136 of 240 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 | 2016 | Gotham | 12 | 4 | 471 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Gotham | 16 | 13 | 1099 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.08 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Stars | 20 | 16 | 1520 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Stars | 19 | 11 | 1079 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Stars | 14 | 1 | 167 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 60.7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 6 | 2022 | Reign | 14 | 3 | 402 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 75.2 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 7 | 2023 | Reign | 16 | 2 | 433 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 75.6 | 5 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.42 |
| 8 | 2024 | Reign | 7 | 111 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76.6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| 8 Yrs | 118 | 50 | 5282 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 7 | 14 | 72.8 | 25 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.05 | ||
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 | 2016 | Gotham FC | 471 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.22 | -0.07 | 0.03 | 0.50 | 0.10 | 0.221 |
| 2 | 2017 | Gotham FC | 1099 | 0 | 0.38 | -0.38 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.57 | -0.61 | 0.00 | 1.67 | 0.14 | 0.940 |
| 3 | 2018 | Chicago Stars | 1520 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | -0.16 | 0.46 | -0.62 | -0.01 | 1.41 | 0.08 | 0.760 |
| 4 | 2019 | Chicago Stars | 1079 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | 0.71 | 0.96 | -0.25 | 0.06 | 1.08 | 0.09 | 0.487 |
| 5 | 2021 | Chicago Stars | 167 | 0 | -0.08 | 0.12 | -0.20 | -0.05 | 0.60 | 0.33 | 0.092 | |||
| 6 | 2022 | Reign | 402 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.01 | 0.09 | 0.25 | -0.16 | 0.02 | 0.44 | 0.10 | 0.258 |
| 7 | 2023 | Reign | 433 | 0 | 0.25 | -0.25 | 0.05 | -0.51 | -0.15 | -0.37 | -0.11 | 0.39 | 0.08 | 0.310 |
| 8 | 2024 | Reign | 111 | 0 | 0.16 | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.13 | 0.25 | 0.20 | 0.053 | |||
| 8 Yrs | 5282 | 0 | 0.72 | -0.72 | 0.01 | 0.33 | 2.56 | -2.25 | 0.01 | 6.34 | 0.11 | 3.121 | ||
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 | 1.320 | -0.710 | 0.526 | 0.456 | 0.315 | 89 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2023 | 1.120 | -1.305 | 0.361 | 0.840 | 0.202 | 136 | 240 | |
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 | 2016 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 5 | 2021 | 1 | 1 | 1 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | 2022 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 7 | 2023 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | 2024 | 3 | 3 | 3 | a 6, played like a center back | ||||||||||||||
| 8 Yrs | 60 | 3 | 28 | 26 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 47 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 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 | Jenna Walker | Current | 2023 | Defender | 0.743 |
| 2 | Satara Murray | Racing | 2022 | Defender | 0.705 |
| 3 | Maitane López | Stars | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.705 |
| 4 | Kelli Hubly | Bay FC | 2025 | Defender | 0.635 |
| 5 | Kiki Pickett | Bay FC | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.627 |
| 6 | Elizabeth Ball | Current | 2025 | Defender | 0.626 |
| 7 | Dana Foederer | Royals | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.623 |
| 8 | Kayla Sharples | Stars | 2022 | Defender | 0.612 |
| 9 | Kayla Duran | Gotham | 2025 | Defender | 0.606 |
| 10 | Taryn Torres | Gotham | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.601 |