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PlayersEmily Boyd

Emily Boyd

Position:
Goalkeeper
Nationality:
USA
Born:
1996-07-25 (age 29)
Height:
175 cm

Career (2018–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 18 GP · 1,702 min · 0 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2023: 0.000 — ranked 185 of 240 Composite page →

Standard Stats

Glossary
Playing TimePerformancePer 90
RkSeasonTeamGPGSMinGlsAstPKShSoTKPPass%CrdYCrdRGls/90G+A/90
12018Stars22193000000000.000.00
22019Stars1010969000001000.000.00
32021Stars11900000045.2100.000.00
42022Stars332700000073.2000.000.00
52023Stars221800000058.6000.000.00
5 Yrs1818170200000162.2100.000.00

Advanced Stats

Glossary
ExpectedVAEPThreat
RkSeasonTeamMinGlsxGG−xGxG/90VAEPOffDefVAEP/90xTxT/90DAxT
12018Chicago Stars19300.260.220.050.120.440.20
22019Chicago Stars96901.300.990.310.122.260.210.004
32021Chicago Stars9000.210.120.090.210.360.36
42022Chicago Stars27000.290.230.060.100.380.13
52023Chicago Stars18000.900.480.420.450.590.30
5 Yrs170200.000.000.002.962.040.930.164.030.210.004

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
RkSeasonxGCarriesBox PassesDefenseGKCompositeRankPool
120220.0000.0000.0000.0000.0000.000185247
220230.0000.000185240

Goalkeeping

Glossary
RkSeasonTeamGPMinGASavesSave%CSPSxGPSxG−GA
12021Chicago Stars19004100.0
22022Chicago Stars3270011100.014.82-1.18
32023Chicago Stars218008100.026.404.40
3 Yrs6540023100.0311.223.22

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)
RkSeasonStartsGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTRead
1201822
220191010
3202011
4202111
5202233
6202355
6 Yrs2222

Similar Players

Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.

RkPlayerTeamSeasonPosSimilarity
1Abby SmithDash2025Goalkeeper0.942
2Marisa JordanCourage2025Goalkeeper0.939
3Aubrey KingsburySpirit2023Goalkeeper0.915
4Shelby HoganGotham2025Goalkeeper0.906
5Casey MurphyCourage2022Goalkeeper0.893
6Bella BixbyThorns2022Goalkeeper0.891
7Jordan SilkowitzBay FC2025Goalkeeper0.882
8Ashlyn HarrisGotham2022Goalkeeper0.878
9Katie AtkinsonRacing2022Goalkeeper0.877
10Karen Louise BardsleyReign2021Goalkeeper0.876