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Barbra Banda
- Position:
- Forward
- Nationality:
- Zambia
- Born:
- 2000-03-20 (age 26)
- Height:
- 178 cm
Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 54 GP · 4,315 min · 37 goals · 9 assists
Composite 2026: 1.996 — ranked 1 of 385 Composite page →
Standard Stats
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 | 2024 | Pride | 2006 | 17 | 10.06 | 6.94 | 0.45 | 12.33 | 12.52 | -0.19 | 0.55 | 3.84 | 0.17 | 0.090 |
| 2 | 2025 | Pride | 1299 | 8 | 7.63 | 0.37 | 0.53 | 5.14 | 5.50 | -0.36 | 0.36 | 2.60 | 0.18 | 0.102 |
| 3 | 2026 | Pride | 1010 | 12 | 9.17 | 2.83 | 0.82 | 9.30 | 9.51 | -0.22 | 0.83 | 8.44 | 0.75 | 0.074 |
| 3 Yrs | 4315 | 37 | 26.86 | 10.14 | 0.56 | 26.77 | 27.53 | -0.77 | 0.56 | 14.88 | 0.31 | 0.266 | ||
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 | 2024 | 1.710 | 2.290 | 0.331 | 0.923 | 1.599 | 2 | 338 | |
| 2 | 2025 | 1.211 | 2.717 | -0.216 | 1.095 | 1.428 | 4 | 258 | |
| 3 | 2026 | 2.363 | 2.832 | 0.056 | 0.677 | 0.000 | 1.996 | 1 | 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 | 2024 | 23 | 23 | 2 | 21 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 2025 | 16 | 16 | 16 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2026 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 10 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 50 | 1 | 49 | 3 | 47 | 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 | Sophia Wilson | Thorns | 2023 | Forward | 0.826 |
| 2 | Temwa Chawinga | Current | 2024 | Forward | 0.811 |
| 3 | Simone Charley | Thorns | 2021 | Forward | 0.799 |
| 4 | Morgan Weaver | Thorns | 2021 | Midfielder | 0.768 |
| 5 | Kirsten Wright | Racing | 2023 | Forward | 0.764 |
| 6 | Lynn Biyendolo | Courage | 2021 | Forward | 0.749 |
| 7 | Carli Lloyd | Gotham | 2021 | Forward | 0.740 |
| 8 | Racheal Kundananji | Bay FC | 2025 | Forward | 0.725 |
| 9 | Eugénie Anne Claudine Le Sommer | Reign | 2021 | Forward | 0.723 |
| 10 | Rosemonde Kouassi | Spirit | 2024 | Forward | 0.723 |