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Estelle Johnson

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: Cameroon
Born:: 1988-07-21 (age 37)
Height:: 168 cm

Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 102 GP · 9,340 min · 2 goals · 1 assists

Composite 2023: 0.013 — ranked 180 of 240 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	Spirit	11	11	1066	0	0	0	6	4	3		0	0	0.00	0.00
2	2017	Spirit	20	20	1766	2	0	0	9	6	9		2	0	0.10	0.10
3	2018	Spirit	21	21	2003	0	0	0	2	1	1		2	0	0.00	0.00
4	2019	Gotham	15	15	1464	0	0	0	3	2	0		0	0	0.00	0.00
5	2021	Gotham	20	19	1753	0	1	0	0	0		87.4	2	0	0.00	0.05
6	2022	Gotham	15	15	1288	0	0	0	4	0		82.3	2	0	0.00	0.00
7	2023	Courage	0		0	0	0	0	0	0			0	0
	7 Yrs		102	101	9340	2	1	0	24	13	13	85.2	8	0	0.02	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	Spirit	1066	0	0.03	-0.03	0.00	0.69	0.66	0.04	0.06	0.86	0.07	0.294
2	2017	Spirit	1766	2	0.75	1.25	0.04	4.03	4.60	-0.56	0.21	5.43	0.28	0.791
3	2018	Spirit	2003	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.34	1.60	-0.26	0.06	4.13	0.19	0.754
4	2019	Gotham FC	1464	0	0.03	-0.03	0.00	-0.08	0.65	-0.73	0.00	1.94	0.12	0.192
5	2021	Gotham FC	1753	0				0.88	2.31	-1.43	0.05	2.76	0.14	0.600
6	2022	Gotham FC	1288	0	0.33	-0.33	0.02	-0.02	1.08	-1.10	0.00	2.52	0.18	0.361
7	2023	Courage	0	0
	7 Yrs		9340	2	1.14	0.86	0.01	6.84	10.90	-4.04	0.07	17.64	0.17	2.992

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	-0.744	-0.556	0.685	1.042		0.704	27	247
2	2023	-0.990	-1.203	1.115	-0.160		0.013	180	240

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	11		1	10								11						played her role
2	2017	20		13	7							18	2						played her role
3	2018	21		1	20							1	20						played her role
4	2019	15			15								15						played her role
5	2020	7			7								7						played her role
6	2021	20			20								20						played her role
7	2022	19			19							1	18						played her role
	7 Yrs	113		15	98							20	93						played her role

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

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1	Kaleigh Riehl	Racing	2021	Defender	0.960
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4	Mandy Freeman	Gotham	2021	Defender	0.897
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6	Gabrielle Robinson	Current	2024	Defender	0.888
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8	Megan Reid	Angel City	2023	Defender	0.876
9	Sam Hiatt	Reign	2021	Defender	0.871
10	Ally Prisock	Dash	2023	Defender	0.862