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Penelope Hocking
- Position:
- Forward
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1999-12-29 (age 26)
- Height:
- 165 cm
Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 65 GP · 3,636 min · 13 goals · 5 assists
Composite 2026: 0.158 — ranked 167 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 | Chicago Stars | 1184 | 3 | 2.70 | 0.30 | 0.21 | 2.57 | 3.31 | -0.74 | 0.20 | 1.54 | 0.12 | 0.101 |
| 2 | 2024 | Chicago Stars | 1404 | 4 | 5.12 | -1.12 | 0.33 | 1.78 | 2.48 | -0.70 | 0.11 | 1.79 | 0.11 | 0.334 |
| 3 | 2025 | Bay | 861 | 6 | 4.92 | 1.08 | 0.51 | 3.91 | 4.17 | -0.26 | 0.41 | 0.83 | 0.09 | 0.148 |
| 4 | 2026 | KC Current | 187 | 0 | 0.79 | -0.79 | 0.38 | -0.35 | -0.33 | -0.02 | -0.17 | 0.60 | 0.29 | 0.044 |
| 4 Yrs | 3636 | 13 | 13.53 | -0.53 | 0.33 | 7.91 | 9.63 | -1.72 | 0.20 | 4.76 | 0.12 | 0.627 | ||
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 | 0.721 | 0.389 | 0.351 | 0.826 | 0.617 | 43 | 240 | |
| 2 | 2024 | 0.716 | 0.777 | -0.453 | 0.323 | 0.556 | 70 | 338 | |
| 3 | 2025 | 0.864 | 0.825 | -0.292 | -0.049 | 0.602 | 50 | 258 | |
| 4 | 2026 | 0.599 | -0.117 | 0.184 | -0.269 | 0.000 | 0.158 | 167 | 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 | 16 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 2 | 2024 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 11 | a winger, played like a 9 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2025 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 2 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 2026 | 1 | 1 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 Yrs | 43 | 1 | 33 | 9 | 5 | 24 | 14 | 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 | Marissa Everett | Thorns | 2019 | Forward | 0.761 |
| 2 | Jeon Ga-Eul | Flash | 2016 | Forward | 0.571 |
| 3 | Karlie Lema | Bay FC | 2026 | Forward | 0.563 |
| 4 | Haley Hopkins | Current | 2026 | Forward | 0.547 |
| 5 | Cali Jean Farquharson | Dash | 2022 | Forward | 0.539 |
| 6 | Heather Stainbrook | Spirit | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.531 |
| 7 | Hayley Jean Dowd | Breakers | 2017 | Forward | 0.516 |
| 8 | Ifeoma Onumonu | Royals | 2024 | Forward | 0.495 |
| 9 | Kristen Hamilton | Courage | 2020 | Forward | 0.484 |
| 10 | Olivia Wade-Katoa | Thorns | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.465 |