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Taylor Porter

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 1997-10-29 (age 28)
Height:: 170 cm

Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 19 GP · 671 min · 3 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2022: 0.319 — ranked 87 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	2021	Thorns	1		1	0	0	0	0	0		66.7	0	0	0.00	0.00
2	2022	Thorns	11	5	475	3	0	0	6	4	4	77.4	1	0	0.57	0.57
3	2023	Thorns	7	1	195	0	0	0	2	0		77.1	0	0	0.00	0.00
	3 Yrs		19	6	671	3	0	0	8	4	4	77.2	1	0	0.40	0.40

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	2021	Thorns	1	0				0.01	0.00	0.00	0.52	0.00	0.40
2	2022	Thorns	475	3	0.92	2.08	0.17	2.79	2.93	-0.14	0.53	0.65	0.12	0.187
3	2023	Thorns	195	0	0.06	-0.06	0.03	-0.19	0.28	-0.47	-0.09	0.35	0.16	0.118
	3 Yrs		671	3	0.98	2.02	0.13	2.61	3.21	-0.61	0.35	1.00	0.13	0.305

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	2022	-0.061	-0.003	0.378	0.970		0.319	87	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	2022	6				4	2							6					played her role
2	2023	7				5	2							6			1		played her role
	2 Yrs	13				9	4							12			1		played her role

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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	Hina Sugita	Thorns	2024	Midfielder	0.804
2	Claire Hutton	Current	2024	Midfielder	0.771
3	Desiree Scott	Current	2021	Midfielder	0.770
4	Devin Lynch	Summit	2026	Midfielder	0.741
5	Viviana Villacorta	Pride	2023	Midfielder	0.713
6	Dani Weatherholt	Angel City	2023	Midfielder	0.712
7	Sophie Hirst	Dash	2023	Midfielder	0.699
8	Madison Hammond	Angel City	2024	Midfielder	0.693
9	Cari Roccaro	Angel City	2022	Midfielder	0.692
10	Alex Loera	Bay FC	2024	Midfielder	0.690