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Bella Bixby

Position:: Goalkeeper
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 1995-11-20 (age 30)
Height:: 183 cm

Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 67 GP · 6,030 min · 1 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2025: 0.000 — ranked 191 of 258 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	17	17	1530	0	0	0	0	0		64.5	0	0	0.00	0.00
2	2022	Thorns	22	22	1980	0	0	0	0	0		63.5	1	0	0.00	0.00
3	2023	Thorns	21	21	1890	1	0	0	1	1		61.2	2	0	0.05	0.05
4	2025	Thorns	7	7	630	0	0	0	0	0		73.0	0	0	0.00	0.00
5	2026		0		0	0	0	0	0	0			0	0
	5 Yrs		67	67	6030	1	0	0	1	1	0	64.3	3	0	0.01	0.01

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	1530	0				2.50	1.11	1.39	0.15	1.85	0.11
2	2022	Thorns	1980	0				2.32	1.91	0.42	0.11	2.63	0.12
3	2023	Thorns	1890	1	0.82	0.18	0.04	2.04	2.39	-0.35	0.10	3.08	0.15
4	2025	Thorns	630	0				0.93	0.53	0.39	0.13	0.92	0.13
5	2026		0	0
	5 Yrs		6030	1	0.82	0.18	0.01	7.79	5.94	1.85	0.12	8.48	0.13	0.000

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					0.000	0.000	185	247
2	2023					0.000	0.000	185	240
3	2025					0.000	0.000	191	258

Goalkeeping

Glossary

Rk	Season ▴	Team	GP	Min	GA	Saves	Save%	CS	PSxG	PSxG−GA
1	2021	Thorns	17	1530	0	46	100.0	9
2	2022	Thorns	22	1980	0	63	100.0	10	32.93	5.93
3	2023	Thorns	21	1890	30	67	69.1	6	27.35	-3.65
4	2025	Thorns	7	630	4	17	81.0	3	4.62	1.62
5	2026		0	0	0	0
	5 Yrs		67	6030	34	193	85.0	28	64.90	3.90

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	2020	4	4																—
2	2021	17	17																—
3	2022	26	26																—
4	2023	23	23																—
5	2025	7	7																—
	5 Yrs	77	77																—

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	DiDi Haracic	Angel City	2024	Goalkeeper	0.980
2	Alyssa Naeher	Stars	2021	Goalkeeper	0.965
3	Aubrey Kingsbury	Spirit	2024	Goalkeeper	0.962
4	Carly Mitchell Telford	Wave	2022	Goalkeeper	0.960
5	Jane Campbell	Dash	2023	Goalkeeper	0.957
6	Mackenzie Arnold	Thorns	2025	Goalkeeper	0.951
7	Angelina Anderson	Angel City	2026	Goalkeeper	0.943
8	Claudia Dickey	Reign	2025	Goalkeeper	0.940
9	Laurel Ivory	Reign	2024	Goalkeeper	0.938
10	Hannah Seabert	Angel City	2025	Goalkeeper	0.937