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Annaïg Butel

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: France
Born:: 1992-02-15 (age 34)
Height:: 167 cm

Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 32 GP · 2,382 min · 0 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2024: 0.278 — ranked 159 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	2023	Spirit	7	5	463	0	0	0	1	0	3	75.0	3	0	0.00	0.00
2	2024	Spirit	25	21	1919	0	0	0	1	1	5	86.4	3	0	0.00	0.00
	2 Yrs		32	26	2382	0	0	0	2	1	8	84.7	6	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	2023	Spirit	463	0	0.07	-0.07	0.01	0.47	0.89	-0.43	0.09	1.73	0.34	0.125
2	2024	Spirit	1919	0	0.03	-0.03	0.00	0.21	2.98	-2.78	0.01	4.03	0.19	0.579
	2 Yrs		2382	0	0.10	-0.10	0.00	0.68	3.87	-3.21	0.03	5.76	0.22	0.704

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	2023	0.008	1.167	0.058	0.018		0.316	107	240
2	2024	-0.140	0.730	0.206	-0.039		0.278	159	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	2023	5		4	1							4	1						played her role
2	2024	23			23								23						played her role
	2 Yrs	28		4	24							4	24						played 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.

Rk	Player	Team	Season	Pos	Similarity
1	Becky Sauerbrunn	Thorns	2024	Defender	0.933
2	Kaleigh Riehl	Royals	2024	Defender	0.908
3	Jen Beattie	Bay	2024	Defender	0.907
4	Savy King	Angel City	2025	Defender	0.889
5	Kayla Sharples	Bay	2024	Defender	0.868
6	Kylie Nadaner	Pride	2024	Defender	0.863
7	Gabrielle Robinson	KC Current	2024	Defender	0.859
8	Esme Morgan	Spirit	2024	Defender	0.849
9	Emily Menges	Bay	2025	Defender	0.847
10	Caitlin Cosme	Pride	2023	Defender	0.844