Players›Sam Staab
Sam Staab
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1997-03-28 (age 29)
- Height:
- 170 cm
Career (2019–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 149 GP · 13,463 min · 8 goals · 11 assists
Composite 2026: 1.101 — ranked 17 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 | 2019 | Spirit | 24 | 24 | 2414 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.07 | |
| 2 | 2021 | Spirit | 25 | 25 | 2225 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 84.4 | 1 | 1 | 0.04 | 0.12 |
| 3 | 2022 | Spirit | 22 | 22 | 1980 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 26 | 83.3 | 5 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.09 |
| 4 | 2023 | Spirit | 22 | 22 | 1980 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 28 | 77.8 | 4 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.09 |
| 5 | 2024 | Chicago Stars | 16 | 16 | 1440 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 73.6 | 3 | 0 | 0.06 | 0.19 |
| 6 | 2025 | Chicago Stars | 26 | 25 | 2164 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 16 | 79.6 | 2 | 0 | 0.08 | 0.25 |
| 7 | 2026 | Chicago Stars | 14 | 14 | 1260 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 82.3 | 0 | 0 | 0.07 | 0.07 |
| 7 Yrs | 149 | 148 | 13463 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 54 | 23 | 107 | 80.7 | 19 | 1 | 0.05 | 0.13 | ||
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 | 2019 | Spirit | 2414 | 1 | 0.26 | 0.74 | 0.01 | 3.35 | 4.69 | -1.35 | 0.12 | 8.45 | 0.31 | 0.477 |
| 2 | 2021 | Spirit | 2225 | 1 | 0.83 | 0.17 | 0.03 | 1.98 | 3.54 | -1.56 | 0.08 | 4.84 | 0.20 | 0.587 |
| 3 | 2022 | Spirit | 1980 | 1 | 0.34 | 0.66 | 0.02 | 4.85 | 5.44 | -0.59 | 0.22 | 9.52 | 0.43 | 0.424 |
| 4 | 2023 | Spirit | 1980 | 1 | 0.63 | 0.37 | 0.03 | 9.67 | 10.47 | -0.80 | 0.44 | 12.26 | 0.56 | 0.311 |
| 5 | 2024 | Chicago Stars | 1440 | 1 | 0.72 | 0.28 | 0.05 | 2.80 | 4.12 | -1.32 | 0.17 | 8.49 | 0.53 | 0.366 |
| 6 | 2025 | Chicago Stars | 2164 | 2 | 1.61 | 0.39 | 0.07 | 4.84 | 7.52 | -2.68 | 0.20 | 11.05 | 0.46 | 0.302 |
| 7 | 2026 | Chicago Stars | 1260 | 1 | 0.30 | 0.70 | 0.02 | 2.25 | 3.13 | -0.89 | 0.16 | 11.71 | 0.84 | 0.255 |
| 7 Yrs | 13463 | 8 | 4.69 | 3.31 | 0.03 | 29.74 | 38.91 | -9.19 | 0.20 | 66.32 | 0.44 | 2.722 | ||
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 | 0.114 | -0.507 | -2.522 | 1.476 | 0.210 | 123 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2026 | -0.350 | 1.127 | 0.728 | 1.251 | 0.136 | 1.101 | 17 | 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 | 24 | 24 | 24 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2020 | 9 | 9 | 9 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2021 | 25 | 25 | 25 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2022 | 28 | 28 | 27 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 2023 | 28 | 28 | 28 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | 2024 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 7 | 2025 | 25 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 24 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 8 | 2026 | 14 | 14 | 14 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 8 Yrs | 170 | 1 | 168 | 1 | 167 | 3 | 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 | Megan Reid | Angel City | 2025 | Defender | 0.807 |
| 2 | Rafaelle | Pride | 2025 | Defender | 0.801 |
| 3 | Katie Lind | Dash | 2021 | Defender | 0.800 |
| 4 | Tierna Davidson | Chicago Stars | 2023 | Defender | 0.778 |
| 5 | Paige Nielsen | Dash | 2025 | Defender | 0.774 |
| 6 | Lauren Flynn | Royals | 2025 | Defender | 0.773 |
| 7 | Kaleigh Riehl | Racing Lou | 2021 | Defender | 0.756 |
| 8 | Phoebe McClernon | Reign | 2025 | Defender | 0.750 |
| 9 | Kaleigh Kurtz | Courage | 2025 | Defender | 0.749 |
| 10 | Ally Prisock | Dash | 2023 | Defender | 0.748 |