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Ryan Williams
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1996-02-23 (age 30)
- Height:
- 168 cm
Career (2018–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 129 GP · 9,450 min · 1 goals · 11 assists
Composite 2026: 1.004 — ranked 22 of 385 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 | 2018 | Courage | 1 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 2 | 2019 | Courage | 4 | 3 | 247 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 3 | 2021 | Courage | 18 | 2 | 342 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 76.6 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.53 |
| 4 | 2022 | Courage | 18 | 10 | 988 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 82.3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.27 |
| 5 | 2023 | Courage | 23 | 23 | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 83.7 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.04 |
| 6 | 2024 | Courage | 26 | 26 | 2328 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 85.7 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 7 | 2025 | Courage | 26 | 26 | 2337 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 27 | 81.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.12 |
| 8 | 2026 | Courage | 13 | 13 | 1170 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 84.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.23 |
| 8 Yrs | 129 | 103 | 9450 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 95 | 83.6 | 6 | 1 | 0.01 | 0.11 | ||
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 | 2018 | Courage | 23 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.03 | -0.02 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.24 | ||||
| 2 | 2019 | Courage | 247 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.18 | 0.39 | -0.22 | 0.06 | 0.84 | 0.31 | 0.082 |
| 3 | 2021 | Courage | 342 | 0 | 0.69 | 0.86 | -0.17 | 0.18 | 1.51 | 0.40 | 0.151 | |||
| 4 | 2022 | Courage | 988 | 0 | 0.06 | -0.06 | 0.01 | 0.87 | 1.31 | -0.44 | 0.08 | 4.84 | 0.44 | 0.445 |
| 5 | 2023 | Courage | 2015 | 0 | 0.13 | -0.13 | 0.01 | 1.79 | 4.50 | -2.71 | 0.08 | 6.43 | 0.29 | 0.673 |
| 6 | 2024 | Courage | 2328 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | 3.08 | 4.60 | -1.51 | 0.12 | 8.12 | 0.31 | 1.095 |
| 7 | 2025 | Courage | 2337 | 1 | 1.48 | -0.48 | 0.06 | 0.92 | 2.96 | -2.03 | 0.04 | 6.89 | 0.27 | 0.569 |
| 8 | 2026 | Courage | 1170 | 0 | 0.28 | -0.28 | 0.02 | 1.82 | 2.25 | -0.42 | 0.14 | 8.94 | 0.69 | 0.375 |
| 8 Yrs | 9450 | 1 | 1.98 | -0.98 | 0.02 | 9.35 | 16.90 | -7.52 | 0.09 | 37.63 | 0.36 | 3.390 | ||
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 | 2022 | 0.006 | 1.307 | -1.038 | 0.264 | 0.231 | 117 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2026 | -0.431 | 2.276 | 0.431 | 0.778 | 0.018 | 1.004 | 22 | 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 | 2019 | 3 | 3 | 3 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2020 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2021 | 3 | 3 | 3 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2022 | 10 | 10 | 10 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | 2023 | 31 | 27 | 4 | 27 | 4 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 2024 | 30 | 29 | 1 | 29 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 7 | 2025 | 26 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 3 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 8 | 2026 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 3 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 8 Yrs | 121 | 113 | 7 | 1 | 109 | 4 | 8 | 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 | Christen Westphal | San Diego Wave | 2024 | Defender | 0.774 |
| 2 | Lauren Milliet | Racing Lou | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.774 |
| 3 | Olivia Griffitts | Royals | 2024 | Defender | 0.755 |
| 4 | Natalia Kuikka | Thorns | 2023 | Defender | 0.737 |
| 5 | Haley McCutcheon | Dash | 2022 | Defender | 0.731 |
| 6 | Hanna Lundkvist | San Diego Wave | 2025 | Defender | 0.730 |
| 7 | Gisele Thompson | Angel City | 2025 | Defender | 0.726 |
| 8 | Jasmyne Spencer | Angel City | 2024 | Defender | 0.725 |
| 9 | Caprice Dydasco | Bay | 2025 | Defender | 0.700 |
| 10 | Nichelle Prince | Boston Legacy | 2026 | Forward | 0.698 |