Players›Mina Tanaka
Mina Tanaka
- Position:
- Forward
- Nationality:
- Japan
- Born:
- 1994-04-28 (age 32)
- Height:
- 164 cm
Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 41 GP · 3,386 min · 11 goals · 5 assists
Composite 2026: 0.762 — ranked 40 of 385 Composite page →
Standard Stats
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 | 2024 | Royals | 511 | 1 | 1.72 | -0.72 | 0.30 | 0.00 | 0.23 | -0.24 | 0.00 | 0.55 | 0.10 | 0.078 |
| 2 | 2025 | Royals | 1991 | 6 | 5.21 | 0.79 | 0.24 | 1.96 | 2.89 | -0.93 | 0.09 | 2.39 | 0.11 | 0.398 |
| 3 | 2026 | Royals | 884 | 4 | 4.66 | -0.66 | 0.47 | 1.13 | 1.50 | -0.37 | 0.12 | 3.74 | 0.38 | 0.083 |
| 3 Yrs | 3386 | 11 | 11.59 | -0.59 | 0.31 | 3.09 | 4.62 | -1.54 | 0.08 | 6.68 | 0.18 | 0.559 | ||
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 | 2024 | -0.513 | -0.816 | 0.672 | 0.989 | 0.160 | 212 | 338 | |
| 2 | 2025 | 0.039 | -0.913 | 0.465 | 1.971 | 0.508 | 63 | 258 | |
| 3 | 2026 | 2.527 | 0.528 | 0.889 | -0.051 | 0.000 | 0.762 | 40 | 385 |
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 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | a winger, played like a 6 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2025 | 22 | 1 | 19 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||
| 3 | 2026 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | an 8, played like a 6 | |||||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 39 | 2 | 30 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 10 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||
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 | Brianna Pinto | Courage | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.750 |
| 2 | Olivia Moultrie | Thorns | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.744 |
| 3 | Ava Cook | Stars | 2022 | Forward | 0.718 |
| 4 | Jordyn Huitema | Reign | 2024 | Forward | 0.708 |
| 5 | Alex Morgan | Wave | 2023 | Forward | 0.707 |
| 6 | Bethany Balcer | Reign | 2021 | Forward | 0.698 |
| 7 | Alex Chidiac | Racing | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.689 |
| 8 | Rocky Rodríguez | Thorns | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.682 |
| 9 | Kumi Yokoyama | Spirit | 2021 | Forward | 0.679 |
| 10 | Christine Sinclair | Thorns | 2022 | Forward | 0.678 |