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Ayo Oke

Ayo Oke

Position:
Defender
Nationality:
USA
Born:
2003-04-05 (age 23)
Height:
160 cm

Career (2026–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 12 GP · 751 min · 0 goals · 1 assists

Composite 2026: -0.030 — ranked 233 of 385 Composite page →

Standard Stats

Glossary
Playing TimePerformancePer 90
RkSeason ▴TeamGPGSMinGlsAstPKShSoTKPPass%CrdYCrdRGls/90G+A/90
12026Summit12975101021972.7200.000.12
1 Yr12975101021972.7200.000.12

Advanced Stats

Glossary
ExpectedVAEPThreat
RkSeason ▴TeamMinGlsxGG−xGxG/90VAEPOffDefVAEP/90xTxT/90DAxT
12026Denver75100.20-0.200.020.401.25-0.850.055.390.650.151
1 Yr75100.20-0.200.020.401.25-0.850.055.390.650.151

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
RkSeason ▴xGCarriesBox PassesDefenseGKCompositeRankPool
12026-0.3581.458-0.434-0.9620.000-0.030233385

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)
RkSeason ▴StartsGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTRead
1202698172played her role
1 Yr98172played her role

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Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.

RkPlayerTeamSeasonPosSimilarity
1Janni ThomsenRoyals2025Midfielder0.835
2Camryn BiegalskiStars2025Defender0.817
3Merritt MathiasCourage2021Defender0.815
4Kiki PickettCurrent2021Midfielder0.804
5Jasmyne SpencerAngel City2022Defender0.794
6Maximiliane RallStars2024Defender0.791
7Erin Dorothy SimonRacing2021Defender0.791
8Haley McCutcheonPride2023Defender0.788
9Ryan WilliamsCourage2021Defender0.783
10Michelle AlozieStars2026Defender0.780