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Gemma Bonner

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: England
Born:: 1991-07-13 (age 35)
Height:: 175 cm

Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 33 GP · 2,956 min · 1 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2022: 0.525 — ranked 52 of 247 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	Racing	13	13	1156	0	0	0	5	2	1	75.3	2	0	0.00	0.00
2	2022	Racing	20	20	1800	1	0	0	9	2	4	73.6	3	0	0.05	0.05
	2 Yrs		33	33	2956	1	0	0	14	4	5	74.4	5	0	0.03	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	2021	Racing Lou	1156	0	0.24	-0.24	0.02	0.32	1.23	-0.90	0.03	3.64	0.28	0.341
2	2022	Racing Lou	1800	1	1.17	-0.17	0.06	2.73	3.42	-0.68	0.14	5.10	0.26	0.572
	2 Yrs		2956	1	1.41	-0.41	0.04	3.05	4.65	-1.58	0.09	8.74	0.27	0.913

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	0.436	0.232	0.963	0.414		0.525	52	247

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	2021	13			13								13						played her role
2	2022	26			26								25	1					played her role
	2 Yrs	39			39								38	1					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	Alana Cook	Reign	2022	Defender	0.896
2	Tara Rudd	Spirit	2023	Defender	0.892
3	Brooke Tatum Hendrix	Racing	2021	Defender	0.885
4	Emily Sonnett	Spirit	2022	Defender	0.880
5	Taylor Maree Leach	Current	2021	Defender	0.876
6	Kate Del Fava	Royals	2024	Defender	0.874
7	Elizabeth Ball	Current	2023	Defender	0.873
8	Kelli Hubly	Thorns	2022	Defender	0.871
9	Sam Hiatt	Thorns	2025	Defender	0.869
10	Gina Loren Lewandowski	Gotham	2021	Defender	0.852