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Lauren Barnes

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 1989-05-31 (age 37)
Height:: 165 cm

Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 193 GP · 16,632 min · 1 goals · 4 assists

Composite 2022: 0.434 — ranked 67 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	Reign	20	20	1869	1	2	0	6	4	13		1	0	0.05	0.14
2	2017	Reign	22	21	2013	0	0	0	2	2	9		5	1	0.00	0.00
3	2018	Reign	19	18	1808	0	0	0	4	1	5		2	0	0.00	0.00
4	2019	Reign	23	23	2311	0	0	0	0	0	9		5	0	0.00	0.00
5	2021	Reign	22	21	1876	0	0	0	1	0	15	80.1	3	0	0.00	0.00
6	2022	Reign	20	20	1683	0	0	0	3	1	15	72.1	2	0	0.00	0.00
7	2023	Reign	25	25	2199	0	1	0	1	0	13	78.7	1	0	0.00	0.04
8	2024	Reign	21	17	1497	0	0	0	1	0	9	85.9	1	0	0.00	0.00
9	2025	Reign	21	17	1376	0	1	0	0	0	11	80.3	3	0	0.00	0.07
	9 Yrs		193	182	16632	1	4	0	18	8	99	79.6	23	1	0.01	0.03

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	Reign	1869	1	0.25	0.75	0.01	3.19	3.83	-0.64	0.15	6.89	0.33	0.510
2	2017	Reign	2013	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.48	2.76	-1.28	0.07	5.68	0.25	0.750
3	2018	Reign	1808	0	0.10	-0.10	0.00	2.05	2.87	-0.82	0.10	5.84	0.29	0.637
4	2019	Reign	2311	0				1.72	3.55	-1.83	0.07	5.73	0.22	0.642
5	2021	Reign	1876	0	0.06	-0.06	0.00	3.83	4.54	-0.71	0.18	5.97	0.29	0.624
6	2022	Reign	1683	0	0.06	-0.06	0.00	4.23	5.60	-1.37	0.23	7.57	0.41	0.671
7	2023	Reign	2199	0	0.12	-0.12	0.00	3.13	4.50	-1.37	0.13	6.50	0.27	0.730
8	2024	Reign	1497	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.73	2.78	-1.06	0.10	4.70	0.28	0.350
9	2025	Reign	1376	0				1.71	2.38	-0.67	0.11	4.93	0.32	0.273
	9 Yrs		16632	1	0.59	0.41	0.00	23.07	32.81	-9.75	0.12	53.81	0.29	5.187

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	-0.237	1.124	0.562	0.061		0.434	67	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	20		9	11							10	10						a center back, played like a fullback
2	2017	21		2	19							3	18						played her role
3	2018	19			19							1	18						played her role
4	2019	24			24								24						played her role
5	2020	4		1	3							1	3						played her role
6	2021	23		13	10							13	10						played her role
7	2022	26		25	1							25	1						played her role
8	2023	25		19	6							18	7						played her role
9	2024	17			17								17						played her role
10	2025	17			17							8	9						played her role
	10 Yrs	196		69	127							79	117						played her role

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