Players›Paige Metayer
Paige Metayer
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 2000-09-23 (age 25)
- Height:
- 178 cm
Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 63 GP · 3,737 min · 4 goals · 3 assists
Composite 2026: -0.543 — ranked 334 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 | Spirit | 1847 | 3 | 3.58 | -0.58 | 0.17 | -0.42 | 1.30 | -1.72 | -0.02 | 2.78 | 0.14 | 0.578 |
| 2 | 2024 | Spirit | 1212 | 1 | 1.09 | -0.09 | 0.08 | 2.59 | 3.10 | -0.51 | 0.19 | 2.61 | 0.19 | 0.350 |
| 3 | 2025 | Spirit | 460 | 0 | 0.72 | -0.72 | 0.14 | 0.17 | 0.53 | -0.36 | 0.03 | 1.74 | 0.34 | 0.069 |
| 4 | 2026 | Spirit | 218 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.05 | 0.21 | -0.16 | 0.02 | 1.59 | 0.66 | 0.077 |
| 4 Yrs | 3737 | 4 | 5.39 | -1.39 | 0.13 | 2.39 | 5.14 | -2.75 | 0.06 | 8.72 | 0.21 | 1.074 | ||
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 | 2026 | -0.726 | -0.505 | -0.368 | -0.657 | 0.000 | -0.543 | 334 | 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 | 26 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 3 | an 8, played like a 6 | |||||||||
| 2 | 2024 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2025 | 4 | 4 | 4 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 45 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 17 | 11 | 3 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||
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 | Oihane Hernández | Pride | 2025 | Defender | 0.882 |
| 2 | Lauren Milliet | Racing | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.881 |
| 3 | Haley McCutcheon | Pride | 2023 | Defender | 0.853 |
| 4 | Janni Thomsen | Royals | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.844 |
| 5 | Kate Del Fava | Current | 2023 | Defender | 0.829 |
| 6 | Avery Patterson | Dash | 2024 | Defender | 0.822 |
| 7 | Christen Westphal | Wave | 2023 | Defender | 0.821 |
| 8 | Celia Jiménez | Pride | 2022 | Defender | 0.818 |
| 9 | Olivia Griffitts | Royals | 2024 | Defender | 0.816 |
| 10 | Michelle Alozie | Stars | 2026 | Defender | 0.814 |