Players›Lauren Barnes
Lauren Barnes
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1989-05-31 (age 37)
- Height:
- 165 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 193 GP · 16,632 min · 1 goals · 4 assists
Composite 2022: 0.434 — ranked 67 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 | 2016 | Reign | 20 | 20 | 1869 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.14 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Reign | 22 | 21 | 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Reign | 19 | 18 | 1808 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Reign | 23 | 23 | 2311 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Reign | 22 | 21 | 1876 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 80.1 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 6 | 2022 | Reign | 20 | 20 | 1683 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 72.1 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 7 | 2023 | Reign | 25 | 25 | 2199 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 78.7 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.04 |
| 8 | 2024 | Reign | 21 | 17 | 1497 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 85.9 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 9 | 2025 | Reign | 21 | 17 | 1376 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 80.3 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.07 |
| 9 Yrs | 193 | 182 | 16632 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 8 | 99 | 79.6 | 23 | 1 | 0.01 | 0.03 | ||
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 | Reign | 1869 | 1 | 0.25 | 0.75 | 0.01 | 3.19 | 3.83 | -0.64 | 0.15 | 6.89 | 0.33 | 0.510 |
| 2 | 2017 | Reign | 2013 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.48 | 2.76 | -1.28 | 0.07 | 5.68 | 0.25 | 0.750 |
| 3 | 2018 | Reign | 1808 | 0 | 0.10 | -0.10 | 0.00 | 2.05 | 2.87 | -0.82 | 0.10 | 5.84 | 0.29 | 0.637 |
| 4 | 2019 | Reign | 2311 | 0 | 1.72 | 3.55 | -1.83 | 0.07 | 5.73 | 0.22 | 0.642 | |||
| 5 | 2021 | Reign | 1876 | 0 | 0.06 | -0.06 | 0.00 | 3.83 | 4.54 | -0.71 | 0.18 | 5.97 | 0.29 | 0.624 |
| 6 | 2022 | Reign | 1683 | 0 | 0.06 | -0.06 | 0.00 | 4.23 | 5.60 | -1.37 | 0.23 | 7.57 | 0.41 | 0.671 |
| 7 | 2023 | Reign | 2199 | 0 | 0.12 | -0.12 | 0.00 | 3.13 | 4.50 | -1.37 | 0.13 | 6.50 | 0.27 | 0.730 |
| 8 | 2024 | Reign | 1497 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.73 | 2.78 | -1.06 | 0.10 | 4.70 | 0.28 | 0.350 |
| 9 | 2025 | Reign | 1376 | 0 | 1.71 | 2.38 | -0.67 | 0.11 | 4.93 | 0.32 | 0.273 | |||
| 9 Yrs | 16632 | 1 | 0.59 | 0.41 | 0.00 | 23.07 | 32.81 | -9.75 | 0.12 | 53.81 | 0.29 | 5.187 | ||
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 | -0.237 | 1.124 | 0.562 | 0.061 | 0.434 | 67 | 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 | 2016 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 10 | a center back, played like a fullback | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 21 | 2 | 19 | 3 | 18 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 19 | 19 | 1 | 18 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 24 | 24 | 24 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | 2020 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 2021 | 23 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 10 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 7 | 2022 | 26 | 25 | 1 | 25 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 8 | 2023 | 25 | 19 | 6 | 18 | 7 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 9 | 2024 | 17 | 17 | 17 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 2025 | 17 | 17 | 8 | 9 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 10 Yrs | 196 | 69 | 127 | 79 | 117 | 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 | Sam Staab | Stars | 2025 | Defender | 0.824 |
| 2 | Tierna Davidson | Stars | 2021 | Defender | 0.822 |
| 3 | Imani Dorsey | Gotham | 2021 | Defender | 0.817 |
| 4 | Courtney Petersen | Racing | 2025 | Defender | 0.795 |
| 5 | Kristen McNabb | Wave | 2024 | Defender | 0.792 |
| 6 | Izzy Rodriguez | Current | 2023 | Defender | 0.784 |
| 7 | Lilly Reale | Gotham | 2025 | Defender | 0.777 |
| 8 | Feli Rauch | Courage | 2024 | Defender | 0.763 |
| 9 | Joelle Anderson | Bay FC | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.742 |
| 10 | Malia Berkely | Courage | 2024 | Defender | 0.741 |