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Ashleigh Sykes

Position:: Forward
Nationality:: Australia
Born:: 1991-12-15 (age 34)
Height:: 163 cm

Career (2017–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 15 GP · 1,026 min · 1 goals · 1 assists

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	2017	Thorns	15	12	1026	1	1	0	11	6	7		1	0	0.09	0.18
	1 Yr		15	12	1026	1	1	0	11	6	7		1	0	0.09	0.18

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	2017	Thorns	1026	1	0.25	0.75	0.02	1.15	1.49	-0.35	0.10	2.55	0.22	0.221
	1 Yr		1026	1	0.25	0.75	0.02	1.15	1.49	-0.35	0.10	2.55	0.22	0.221

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	2017	14		5			1		8			10					3	1	a winger, played like a fullback
	1 Yr	14		5			1		8			10					3	1	a winger, played like a fullback

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	Ryan Williams	Courage	2020	Defender	0.915
2	Taylor Smith	Courage	2017	Forward	0.908
3	Ellie Madison Carpenter	Thorns	2019	Defender	0.899
4	Midge Purce	Gotham	2020	Forward	0.881
5	Brittany Kolmel	FCKC	2017	Defender	0.857
6	Poliana	Dash	2017	Defender	0.856
7	T. Comeau	Stars	2018	Midfielder	0.855
8	Merritt Mathias	Courage	2018	Defender	0.855
9	Haley McCutcheon	Dash	2020	Defender	0.846
10	Jamia Fields	Pride	2017	Forward	0.837