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Emily Mason

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 2002-10-23 (age 23)
Height:: 175 cm

Career (2025–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 23 GP · 1,073 min · 0 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2026: 0.249 — ranked 147 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	2025	Reign	12	2	255	0	0	0	0	0	1	54.1	2	0	0.00	0.00
2	2026	Reign	11	9	818	0	0	0	2	1		82.4	1	0	0.00	0.00
	2 Yrs		23	11	1073	0	0	0	2	1	1	78.8	3	0	0.00	0.00

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	2025	Reign	255	0				-0.14	0.22	-0.36	-0.05	1.25	0.44	0.115
2	2026	Reign	818	0	0.30	-0.30	0.03	0.31	0.59	-0.27	0.03	3.02	0.33	0.139
	2 Yrs		1073	0	0.30	-0.30	0.03	0.17	0.81	-0.63	0.01	4.27	0.36	0.254

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	2025	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	191	258
2	2026	-0.100	1.215	-0.234	0.336	0.000	0.249	147	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	2025	2		2								2							played her role
2	2026	9			9								9						played her role
	2 Yrs	11		2	9							2	9						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	Emily Sonnett	Gotham FC	2026	Defender	0.842
2	Megan Montefusco	Pride	2023	Defender	0.807
3	Diane Evelyn Caldwell	Courage	2021	Defender	0.803
4	Kennedy Wesley	San Diego Wave	2026	Defender	0.789
5	Sarah Gorden	Angel City	2025	Defender	0.787
6	Ellie Jean	Racing Lou	2024	Defender	0.772
7	Abby Dahlkemper	San Diego Wave	2024	Defender	0.754
8	Emily Sams	Pride	2025	Defender	0.752
9	Emily Menges	Thorns	2021	Defender	0.751
10	Kaleigh Riehl	Royals	2026	Defender	0.751