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Jenna Nighswonger

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 2000-11-28 (age 25)
Height:: 162 cm

Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 51 GP · 3,921 min · 4 goals · 3 assists

Composite 2023: 0.000 — ranked 185 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	2023	Gotham	23	20	1825	3	0	1	26	11	29	70.8	6	0	0.15	0.15
2	2024	Gotham	28	23	2096	1	3	1	20	8	25	70.6	5	0	0.04	0.17
	2 Yrs		51	43	3921	4	3	2	46	19	54	70.7	11	0	0.09	0.16

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	2023	Gotham FC	1825	3	3.41	-0.41	0.17	2.64	4.84	-2.20	0.13	6.46	0.32	0.499
2	2024	Gotham FC	2096	1	1.83	-0.83	0.08	1.29	2.60	-1.31	0.06	9.34	0.40	0.576
	2 Yrs		3921	4	5.24	-1.24	0.12	3.93	7.44	-3.51	0.09	15.80	0.36	1.075

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	2023	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	185	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	2023	25		24					1			22					3		played her role
2	2024	23		23								20					3		played her role
	2 Yrs	48		47					1			42					6		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	Izzy Rodriguez	Current	2023	Defender	0.903
2	Tegan McGrady	Wave	2022	Defender	0.896
3	Lauren Barnes	Reign	2022	Defender	0.885
4	Courtney Petersen	Pride	2021	Defender	0.882
5	Lily Woodham	Reign	2024	Defender	0.858
6	Meghan Klingenberg	Thorns	2022	Defender	0.845
7	Lilly Reale	Gotham	2025	Defender	0.844
8	Mallory Weber	Current	2021	Defender	0.828
9	Casey Krueger	Spirit	2024	Defender	0.827
10	Madison Pogarch	Thorns	2021	Defender	0.822