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Samantha Meza

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 2001-11-07 (age 24)
Height:: 157 cm

Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 39 GP · 3,056 min · 0 goals · 4 assists

Composite 2026: 0.866 — ranked 33 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	2024	Reign	0		0	0	0	0	0	0			0	0
2	2025	Reign	27	22	2044	0	2	0	4	2	8	77.2	2	0	0.00	0.09
3	2026	Reign	12	11	1012	0	2	0	4	0	5	80.2	2	0	0.00	0.18
	3 Yrs		39	33	3056	0	4	0	8	2	13	78.3	4	0	0.00	0.12

Advanced Stats

Glossary

					Expected			VAEP				Threat
Rk	Season ▴	Team	Min	Gls	xG	G−xG	xG/90	VAEP	Off	Def	VAEP/90	xT	xT/90	DAxT
1	2024	Reign	0	0				0.04	0.09	-0.05
2	2025	Reign	2044	0	0.39	-0.39	0.02	-0.12	0.62	-0.75	-0.01	2.26	0.10	1.313
3	2026	Reign	1012	0	0.36	-0.36	0.03	0.03	0.22	-0.19	0.00	3.47	0.31	0.597
	3 Yrs		3056	0	0.75	-0.75	0.02	-0.05	0.93	-0.99	-0.00	5.73	0.17	1.910

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.

Glossary

		Components
Rk	Season ▴	xG	Carries	Box Passes	Defense	GK	Composite	Rank	Pool
1	2024	0.018	0.307	0.000	1.264	0.000	0.459	97	338
2	2025	-0.212	0.066	0.094	0.846		0.253	125	258
3	2026	-0.459	1.087	0.004	2.183	0.000	0.866	33	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	2024	1							1					1					a winger, played like a 6
2	2025	22				11	11						1	21					played her role
3	2026	11				6	5							9	1	1			played her role
	3 Yrs	34				17	16		1				1	31	1	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	Bayley Feist	Spirit	2023	Midfielder	0.650
2	Evelina Duljan	Pride	2024	Defender	0.608
3	Rebeca Bernal	Spirit	2026	Defender	0.602
4	Claire Hutton	Current	2024	Midfielder	0.580
5	Narumi Miura	Courage	2024	Midfielder	0.566
6	Rocky Rodríguez	Thorns	2022	Midfielder	0.561
7	Desiree Scott	Current	2022	Midfielder	0.555
8	Marissa Sheva	Spirit	2023	Midfielder	0.548
9	Cari Roccaro	Angel City	2022	Midfielder	0.545
10	McCall Zerboni	Gotham	2022	Midfielder	0.542