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Lauren Flynn

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 2002-05-22 (age 24)
Height:: 167 cm

Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 21 GP · 1,547 min · 0 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2024: 0.000 — ranked 274 of 338 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	2024	Royals	12	10	894	0	0	0	1	0	1	74.7	3	0	0.00	0.00
2	2025	Royals	9	6	653	0	0	0	1	0		86.8	2	0	0.00	0.00
	2 Yrs		21	16	1547	0	0	0	2	0	1	79.7	5	0	0.00	0.00

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	2024	Royals	894	0	0.07	-0.07	0.01	-0.61	0.85	-1.46	-0.06	2.06	0.21	0.440
2	2025	Royals	653	0	0.07	-0.07	0.01	-0.25	0.30	-0.56	-0.04	1.37	0.19	0.150
	2 Yrs		1547	0	0.14	-0.14	0.01	-0.86	1.15	-2.02	-0.05	3.43	0.20	0.590

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	2024	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	274	338

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	2024	10		2	8							3	7						played her role
2	2025	6			6								6						played her role
	2 Yrs	16		2	14							3	13						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	Satara Murray	Racing	2022	Defender	0.874
2	Kaleigh Riehl	Royals	2025	Defender	0.873
3	Katie Lind	Dash	2021	Defender	0.860
4	Phoebe McClernon	Reign	2025	Defender	0.858
5	Kayla Sharples	Stars	2022	Defender	0.848
6	Ally Prisock	Dash	2023	Defender	0.844
7	Mandy Freeman	Gotham	2021	Defender	0.842
8	Paige Nielsen	Dash	2025	Defender	0.837
9	Megan Reid	Angel City	2023	Defender	0.836
10	Lauren Leal	Current	2023	Defender	0.828