Players›Emily Sonnett
Emily Sonnett
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1993-11-25 (age 32)
- Height:
- 170 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 188 GP · 16,871 min · 6 goals · 5 assists
Composite 2026: 0.041 — ranked 204 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 | 2016 | Thorns | 15 | 15 | 1427 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Thorns | 24 | 24 | 2278 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0.12 | 0.16 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Thorns | 20 | 20 | 1865 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.10 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Thorns | 13 | 12 | 1185 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0.15 | 0.15 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Spirit | 18 | 17 | 1593 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 10 | 82.9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 6 | 2022 | Spirit | 10 | 9 | 841 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 85.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 7 | 2023 | Reign | 22 | 22 | 1947 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 80.0 | 5 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.05 |
| 8 | 2024 | Gotham | 27 | 27 | 2368 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 90.1 | 5 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.04 |
| 9 | 2025 | Gotham | 29 | 29 | 2639 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 89.4 | 7 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.03 |
| 10 | 2026 | Gotham | 10 | 7 | 728 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 90.7 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 10 Yrs | 188 | 182 | 16871 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 61 | 21 | 57 | 86.9 | 30 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.06 | ||
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 | 2016 | Thorns | 1427 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.04 | 2.62 | -0.58 | 0.13 | 2.85 | 0.18 | 0.264 |
| 2 | 2017 | Thorns | 2278 | 3 | 0.71 | 2.29 | 0.03 | 5.68 | 7.07 | -1.39 | 0.22 | 6.34 | 0.25 | 0.636 |
| 3 | 2018 | Thorns | 1865 | 1 | 0.82 | 0.18 | 0.04 | 2.20 | 3.52 | -1.32 | 0.11 | 5.25 | 0.25 | 0.509 |
| 4 | 2019 | Thorns | 1185 | 2 | 1.29 | 0.71 | 0.10 | 1.99 | 2.79 | -0.80 | 0.15 | 3.43 | 0.26 | 0.243 |
| 5 | 2021 | Spirit | 1593 | 0 | 0.64 | -0.64 | 0.04 | 1.97 | 1.84 | 0.12 | 0.11 | 3.46 | 0.20 | 0.262 |
| 6 | 2022 | Spirit | 841 | 0 | 0.28 | -0.28 | 0.03 | 1.30 | 1.71 | -0.41 | 0.14 | 2.27 | 0.24 | 0.208 |
| 7 | 2023 | Reign | 1947 | 0 | 0.31 | -0.31 | 0.01 | -0.01 | 0.37 | -0.38 | 0.00 | 2.24 | 0.10 | 0.613 |
| 8 | 2024 | Gotham FC | 2368 | 0 | 0.41 | -0.41 | 0.02 | 2.42 | 3.16 | -0.74 | 0.09 | 3.03 | 0.12 | 0.343 |
| 9 | 2025 | Gotham FC | 2639 | 0 | 0.94 | -0.94 | 0.03 | 0.82 | 2.17 | -1.35 | 0.03 | 4.17 | 0.14 | 0.399 |
| 10 | 2026 | Gotham FC | 728 | 0 | 0.13 | -0.13 | 0.02 | 0.44 | 0.80 | -0.36 | 0.05 | 1.46 | 0.18 | 0.129 |
| 10 Yrs | 16871 | 6 | 5.53 | 0.47 | 0.03 | 18.85 | 26.05 | -7.21 | 0.10 | 34.50 | 0.18 | 3.606 | ||
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 | 2022 | -0.762 | 0.198 | -0.382 | 0.232 | 0.045 | 176 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2023 | -1.187 | 0.234 | 1.449 | 0.326 | 0.560 | 49 | 240 | |
| 3 | 2025 | -2.191 | 0.673 | 0.387 | -0.480 | 0.040 | 186 | 258 | |
| 4 | 2026 | -1.150 | 0.932 | 0.080 | -0.273 | 0.103 | 0.041 | 204 | 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 | 2016 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 26 | 26 | 26 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 22 | 22 | 22 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 2021 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 18 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 2022 | 12 | 12 | 12 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | 2023 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 19 | 1 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||||
| 8 | 2024 | 27 | 23 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 3 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 9 | 2025 | 29 | 29 | 26 | 3 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 10 | 2026 | 7 | 7 | 7 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 10 Yrs | 195 | 170 | 2 | 23 | 165 | 28 | 2 | 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 | Kennedy Wesley | Wave | 2026 | Defender | 0.893 |
| 2 | Emily Mason | Reign | 2026 | Defender | 0.842 |
| 3 | Megan Montefusco | Pride | 2023 | Defender | 0.836 |
| 4 | Sarah Gorden | Angel City | 2025 | Defender | 0.827 |
| 5 | Abby Dahlkemper | Wave | 2023 | Defender | 0.824 |
| 6 | Katie Lind | Dash | 2023 | Defender | 0.808 |
| 7 | Diane Evelyn Caldwell | Courage | 2021 | Defender | 0.806 |
| 8 | Kaleigh Riehl | Wave | 2022 | Defender | 0.780 |
| 9 | Emily Sams | Pride | 2025 | Defender | 0.775 |
| 10 | Arin Wright | Racing | 2024 | Defender | 0.775 |