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Payton Linnehan
- Position:
- Forward
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 2001-03-25 (age 25)
- Height:
- 165 cm
Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 44 GP · 1,806 min · 3 goals · 4 assists
Composite 2026: -0.276 — ranked 284 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 | Thorns | 741 | 2 | 1.58 | 0.42 | 0.19 | 1.86 | 2.09 | -0.24 | 0.23 | 1.55 | 0.19 | 0.298 |
| 2 | 2025 | Thorns | 918 | 1 | 1.53 | -0.53 | 0.15 | -0.72 | -0.60 | -0.11 | -0.07 | 1.82 | 0.18 | 0.122 |
| 3 | 2026 | Courage | 147 | 0 | 0.51 | -0.51 | 0.31 | -0.20 | -0.22 | 0.02 | -0.12 | 0.99 | 0.61 | 0.020 |
| 3 Yrs | 1806 | 3 | 3.62 | -0.62 | 0.18 | 0.94 | 1.27 | -0.33 | 0.05 | 4.36 | 0.22 | 0.440 | ||
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 | 1.274 | -0.236 | -1.189 | 0.277 | 0.501 | 86 | 338 | |
| 2 | 2025 | 0.360 | -0.050 | -0.616 | -0.345 | 0.054 | 182 | 258 | |
| 3 | 2026 | 0.425 | 0.059 | -0.430 | -0.752 | 0.000 | -0.276 | 284 | 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 | 6 | 6 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2025 | 10 | 10 | 10 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2026 | 2 | 2 | 2 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 19 | 1 | 18 | 18 | 1 | 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 | Rachel Hill | Bay | 2024 | Forward | 0.854 |
| 2 | Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic | Reign | 2024 | Forward | 0.818 |
| 3 | Mya Jones | San Diego Wave | 2024 | Forward | 0.805 |
| 4 | Aline Gomes | Courage | 2025 | Forward | 0.800 |
| 5 | Karlie Lema | Bay | 2025 | Forward | 0.798 |
| 6 | Tyler Lussi | Courage | 2024 | Forward | 0.779 |
| 7 | Emma Sears | Racing Lou | 2025 | Forward | 0.779 |
| 8 | Michelle Cooper | KC Current | 2025 | Forward | 0.774 |
| 9 | Frankie Tagliaferri | Courage | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.772 |
| 10 | Brittany Ratcliffe | Spirit | 2025 | Forward | 0.768 |