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Paige Nielsen
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1993-10-14 (age 32)
- Height:
- 165 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 148 GP · 11,901 min · 4 goals · 1 assists
Composite 2026: 0.539 — ranked 78 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 | 2016 | Reign | 2 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 2 | 2019 | Spirit | 22 | 22 | 2224 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 3 | 2021 | Spirit | 19 | 13 | 1055 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 83.9 | 0 | 0 | 0.09 | 0.09 |
| 4 | 2022 | Angel City | 20 | 14 | 1299 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 75.8 | 4 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.07 |
| 5 | 2023 | Angel City | 21 | 21 | 1864 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 77.5 | 3 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| 6 | 2024 | Dash | 24 | 24 | 2159 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 78.4 | 5 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.04 |
| 7 | 2025 | Dash | 26 | 24 | 2215 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 83.1 | 1 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.04 |
| 8 | 2026 | Dash | 14 | 13 | 1039 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 84.1 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 8 Yrs | 148 | 131 | 11901 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 12 | 25 | 80.3 | 19 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.04 | ||
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 | Reign | 46 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | -0.13 | -0.13 | 0.00 | -0.26 | 0.06 | 0.12 | 0.016 |
| 2 | 2019 | Spirit | 2224 | 0 | 0.28 | -0.28 | 0.01 | 1.44 | 2.46 | -1.02 | 0.06 | 4.82 | 0.20 | 0.820 |
| 3 | 2021 | Spirit | 1055 | 1 | 0.27 | 0.73 | 0.02 | 1.79 | 2.26 | -0.47 | 0.15 | 2.90 | 0.25 | 0.635 |
| 4 | 2022 | Angel City | 1299 | 0 | 0.06 | -0.06 | 0.00 | -0.36 | 1.78 | -2.15 | -0.03 | 3.51 | 0.24 | 0.352 |
| 5 | 2023 | Angel City | 1864 | 1 | 0.89 | 0.11 | 0.04 | 1.66 | 3.52 | -1.86 | 0.08 | 4.94 | 0.24 | 0.571 |
| 6 | 2024 | Dash | 2159 | 1 | 2.30 | -1.30 | 0.10 | 1.16 | 3.04 | -1.87 | 0.05 | 5.45 | 0.23 | 0.817 |
| 7 | 2025 | Dash | 2215 | 1 | 1.45 | -0.45 | 0.06 | 1.91 | 2.81 | -0.90 | 0.08 | 6.00 | 0.24 | 0.463 |
| 8 | 2026 | Dash | 1039 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | -0.09 | 1.43 | -1.53 | -0.01 | 3.04 | 0.26 | 0.239 |
| 8 Yrs | 11901 | 4 | 5.28 | -1.28 | 0.04 | 7.38 | 17.17 | -9.80 | 0.06 | 30.72 | 0.23 | 3.913 | ||
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 | -0.206 | 0.109 | 0.361 | 1.120 | 0.000 | 0.763 | 16 | 247 |
| 2 | 2023 | -0.990 | -0.016 | -0.537 | 1.401 | 0.656 | 37 | 240 | |
| 3 | 2025 | -0.655 | 0.382 | -0.083 | 0.511 | 0.291 | 111 | 258 | |
| 4 | 2026 | -0.601 | 0.319 | 0.017 | 0.868 | 0.052 | 0.539 | 78 | 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 | 2019 | 22 | 21 | 1 | 21 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2020 | 9 | 9 | 9 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2021 | 15 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 11 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 2022 | 14 | 14 | 14 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | 2023 | 26 | 9 | 17 | 10 | 16 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 2024 | 25 | 4 | 21 | 7 | 15 | 2 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 7 | 2025 | 24 | 1 | 23 | 23 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 8 | 2026 | 13 | 13 | 13 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 8 Yrs | 148 | 18 | 129 | 1 | 21 | 122 | 4 | 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 | Ellie Jean | Racing | 2026 | Defender | 0.900 |
| 2 | Katie Lind | Stars | 2017 | Defender | 0.806 |
| 3 | Taylor Maree Leach | Current | 2021 | Defender | 0.802 |
| 4 | Kelli Hubly | Bay FC | 2025 | Defender | 0.798 |
| 5 | Kate Del Fava | Royals | 2025 | Defender | 0.788 |
| 6 | Natalia Kuikka | Stars | 2024 | Defender | 0.776 |
| 7 | Gina Loren Lewandowski | Gotham | 2022 | Defender | 0.767 |
| 8 | Megan Reid | Angel City | 2022 | Defender | 0.763 |
| 9 | Ali Krieger | Pride | 2020 | Defender | 0.755 |
| 10 | Sam Hiatt | Thorns | 2026 | Defender | 0.747 |