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Whitney Engen

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 1987-11-28 (age 38)
Height:: 170 cm

Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 14 GP · 1,313 min · 1 goals · 1 assists

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	Breakers	14	14	1313	1	1	0	2	2	5		2	0	0.07	0.14
	1 Yr		14	14	1313	1	1	0	2	2	5		2	0	0.07	0.14

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	2016	Breakers	1313	1	0.25	0.75	0.02	2.47	2.73	-0.26	0.17	3.78	0.26	0.345
	1 Yr		1313	1	0.25	0.75	0.02	2.47	2.73	-0.26	0.17	3.78	0.26	0.345

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	14			13				1				13	1					played her role
	1 Yr	14			13				1				13	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	Katie Lind	Stars	2016	Defender	0.960
2	Emily Sonnett	Thorns	2018	Defender	0.940
3	Julie Ertz	Stars	2016	Midfielder	0.907
4	Rachel Corsie	Reign	2017	Defender	0.894
5	Elizabeth Ball	Royals	2020	Defender	0.880
6	W. Church	Spirit	2017	Defender	0.878
7	Kaleigh Kurtz	Courage	2019	Defender	0.877
8	K. Grubka	Gotham	2016	Defender	0.874
9	Megan Montefusco	Spirit	2016	Defender	0.849
10	Christie Pearce	Gotham	2016	Defender	0.844