Players›Sam Hiatt
Sam Hiatt
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1998-01-06 (age 28)
- Height:
- 177 cm
Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 99 GP · 8,347 min · 1 goals · 0 assists
Composite 2026: 0.390 — ranked 117 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 | Reign | 9 | 9 | 731 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 83.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2 | 2022 | Reign | 20 | 20 | 1800 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 80.2 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 3 | 2023 | Reign | 16 | 16 | 1391 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 81.5 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 4 | 2024 | Gotham | 17 | 12 | 1115 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 76.1 | 2 | 0 | 0.08 | 0.08 |
| 5 | 2025 | Thorns | 23 | 22 | 2072 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 85.2 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 6 | 2026 | Thorns | 14 | 14 | 1238 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 87.6 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 6 Yrs | 99 | 93 | 8347 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 82.7 | 10 | 0 | 0.01 | 0.01 | ||
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 | Reign | 731 | 0 | 0.79 | 1.04 | -0.25 | 0.10 | 1.71 | 0.21 | 0.108 | |||
| 2 | 2022 | Reign | 1800 | 0 | 0.07 | -0.07 | 0.00 | 2.32 | 3.67 | -1.36 | 0.12 | 3.48 | 0.17 | 0.364 |
| 3 | 2023 | Reign | 1391 | 0 | 0.21 | -0.21 | 0.01 | 1.46 | 1.49 | -0.03 | 0.09 | 3.37 | 0.22 | 0.278 |
| 4 | 2024 | Gotham FC | 1115 | 1 | 0.47 | 0.53 | 0.04 | 0.40 | 2.52 | -2.11 | 0.03 | 2.97 | 0.24 | 0.309 |
| 5 | 2025 | Thorns | 2072 | 0 | 0.22 | -0.22 | 0.01 | -0.78 | 1.60 | -2.38 | -0.03 | 4.33 | 0.19 | 0.231 |
| 6 | 2026 | Thorns | 1238 | 0 | 0.32 | -0.32 | 0.02 | 1.37 | 1.84 | -0.47 | 0.10 | 3.27 | 0.24 | 0.194 |
| 6 Yrs | 8347 | 1 | 1.29 | -0.29 | 0.01 | 5.56 | 12.16 | -6.60 | 0.06 | 19.13 | 0.21 | 1.484 | ||
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 | 1.953 | -0.346 | -0.121 | 0.201 | 0.154 | 142 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2026 | -0.190 | 0.224 | -0.446 | 0.815 | 0.000 | 0.390 | 117 | 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 | 2021 | 9 | 9 | 9 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2022 | 27 | 27 | 27 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2023 | 20 | 20 | 20 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2024 | 17 | 17 | 17 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | 2025 | 22 | 22 | 22 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | 2026 | 14 | 14 | 14 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 6 Yrs | 109 | 109 | 109 | 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 | Kate Del Fava | Royals | 2025 | Defender | 0.868 |
| 2 | Taylor Maree Leach | Current | 2021 | Defender | 0.860 |
| 3 | Kelli Hubly | Bay FC | 2025 | Defender | 0.859 |
| 4 | Elizabeth Ball | Current | 2023 | Defender | 0.855 |
| 5 | Kayla Sharples | Stars | 2022 | Defender | 0.824 |
| 6 | Abby Dahlkemper | Wave | 2023 | Defender | 0.814 |
| 7 | Eva Gaetino | Summit | 2026 | Defender | 0.804 |
| 8 | Emily Sonnett | Spirit | 2021 | Defender | 0.802 |
| 9 | Gina Loren Lewandowski | Gotham | 2021 | Defender | 0.800 |
| 10 | Kaleigh Riehl | Wave | 2022 | Defender | 0.791 |