Players›Shea Groom
Shea Groom
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1993-03-04 (age 33)
- Height:
- 168 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 155 GP · 10,684 min · 23 goals · 17 assists
Composite 2022: 0.318 — ranked 88 of 247 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 | FCKC | 19 | 19 | 1793 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 31 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 0.40 | 0.40 | |
| 2 | 2017 | FCKC | 22 | 21 | 1876 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 51 | 29 | 23 | 4 | 1 | 0.24 | 0.53 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Gotham | 21 | 17 | 1600 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 39 | 20 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0.11 | 0.28 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Reign | 15 | 14 | 1088 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0.17 | 0.17 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Dash | 24 | 21 | 1691 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 9 | 22 | 69.9 | 5 | 0 | 0.16 | 0.27 |
| 6 | 2022 | Dash | 21 | 14 | 1227 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 9 | 14 | 63.5 | 5 | 0 | 0.07 | 0.37 |
| 7 | 2023 | Dash | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 40.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 8 | 2024 | Stars | 18 | 4 | 607 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 73.4 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.30 |
| 9 | 2025 | Stars | 14 | 9 | 791 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 63.3 | 1 | 0 | 0.23 | 0.23 |
| 9 Yrs | 155 | 119 | 10684 | 23 | 17 | 0 | 223 | 116 | 124 | 67.4 | 21 | 2 | 0.19 | 0.34 | ||
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 | Kansas | 1793 | 8 | 3.63 | 4.37 | 0.18 | 3.41 | 3.80 | -0.38 | 0.17 | 1.52 | 0.08 | 0.128 |
| 2 | 2017 | Kansas | 1876 | 5 | 5.20 | -0.20 | 0.25 | 2.33 | 2.85 | -0.52 | 0.11 | 3.42 | 0.16 | 0.457 |
| 3 | 2018 | Gotham FC | 1600 | 2 | 4.51 | -2.51 | 0.25 | -1.18 | -0.72 | -0.46 | -0.07 | 3.02 | 0.17 | 0.289 |
| 4 | 2019 | Reign | 1088 | 2 | 0.96 | 1.04 | 0.08 | 0.51 | 1.12 | -0.61 | 0.04 | 2.94 | 0.24 | 0.202 |
| 5 | 2021 | Dash | 1691 | 3 | 3.50 | -0.50 | 0.19 | 1.54 | 3.11 | -1.56 | 0.08 | 2.54 | 0.13 | 0.464 |
| 6 | 2022 | Dash | 1227 | 1 | 1.43 | -0.43 | 0.10 | -0.64 | 0.17 | -0.81 | -0.05 | 1.76 | 0.13 | 0.387 |
| 7 | 2023 | Dash | 11 | 0 | 0.02 | 0.04 | -0.01 | 0.20 | 0.03 | 0.26 | ||||
| 8 | 2024 | Chicago Stars | 607 | 0 | 0.15 | -0.15 | 0.02 | -1.26 | -1.13 | -0.12 | -0.19 | 0.80 | 0.12 | 0.199 |
| 9 | 2025 | Chicago Stars | 791 | 2 | 1.09 | 0.91 | 0.12 | 1.53 | 1.81 | -0.28 | 0.17 | 1.53 | 0.17 | 0.160 |
| 9 Yrs | 10684 | 23 | 20.47 | 2.53 | 0.17 | 6.26 | 11.05 | -4.75 | 0.05 | 17.56 | 0.15 | 2.286 | ||
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 | 0.807 | 0.313 | -1.369 | 0.885 | 0.318 | 88 | 247 | |
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 | 2016 | 19 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 18 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 21 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 3 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 17 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 10 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 14 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 5 | 2020 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||
| 6 | 2021 | 25 | 24 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | an 8, played like a 6 | |||||||||
| 7 | 2022 | 18 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | an 8, played like a 6 | |||||||
| 8 | 2024 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||
| 9 | 2025 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | played her role | |||||||
| 9 Yrs | 139 | 5 | 45 | 8 | 49 | 32 | 3 | 23 | 8 | 12 | 46 | 47 | a winger, played like a 9 | ||||||
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 | Ouleymata Sarr | Spirit | 2024 | Forward | 0.681 |
| 2 | Jodie Taylor | Wave | 2022 | Forward | 0.674 |
| 3 | Katie Johnson | Stars | 2021 | Forward | 0.656 |
| 4 | Ava Cook | Stars | 2023 | Forward | 0.655 |
| 5 | Bethany Balcer | Reign | 2023 | Forward | 0.646 |
| 6 | Victoria Pickett | Courage | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.640 |
| 7 | Joelle Anderson | Dash | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.638 |
| 8 | Penelope Hocking | Stars | 2024 | Forward | 0.632 |
| 9 | Katie Lampson | Gotham | 2026 | Forward | 0.632 |
| 10 | Kyra Carusa | Wave | 2024 | Forward | 0.632 |