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Summer Yates
- Position:
- Forward
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 2000-06-17 (age 26)
- Height:
- 163 cm
Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 65 GP · 2,610 min · 5 goals · 4 assists
Composite 2026: -0.230 — ranked 274 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 | 2023 | Pride | 108 | 0 | 0.51 | -0.51 | 0.43 | -0.49 | -0.28 | -0.21 | -0.41 | 0.20 | 0.17 | 0.046 |
| 2 | 2024 | Pride | 1407 | 5 | 5.31 | -0.31 | 0.34 | 3.27 | 4.23 | -0.96 | 0.21 | 3.10 | 0.20 | 0.361 |
| 3 | 2025 | Pride | 552 | 0 | 1.39 | -1.39 | 0.23 | -1.39 | -1.20 | -0.19 | -0.23 | 0.76 | 0.12 | 0.099 |
| 4 | 2026 | Pride | 543 | 0 | 0.21 | -0.21 | 0.03 | -0.14 | 0.03 | -0.17 | -0.02 | 1.81 | 0.30 | 0.179 |
| 4 Yrs | 2610 | 5 | 7.42 | -2.42 | 0.26 | 1.25 | 2.78 | -1.53 | 0.04 | 5.87 | 0.20 | 0.685 | ||
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 | 2023 | -0.105 | 0.456 | -0.081 | 0.833 | 0.199 | 138 | 240 | |
| 2 | 2026 | -0.561 | -0.636 | 0.379 | -0.355 | 0.000 | -0.230 | 274 | 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 | 2023 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | a winger, played like a 10 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 2024 | 20 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 5 | played her role | ||||||||
| 3 | 2025 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 2026 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | an 8, played like a 9 | ||||||||||||
| 4 Yrs | 33 | 1 | 10 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 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 | Sofia Cook | Gotham FC | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.717 |
| 2 | Micayla Johnson | Chicago Stars | 2025 | Forward | 0.699 |
| 3 | Seven Castain | Pride | 2026 | Forward | 0.697 |
| 4 | Jéssica Silva | Gotham FC | 2025 | Forward | 0.655 |
| 5 | Cece Delzer | KC Current | 2023 | Forward | 0.646 |
| 6 | Kyra Carusa | San Diego Wave | 2025 | Forward | 0.645 |
| 7 | Kristen Hamilton | KC Current | 2022 | Forward | 0.616 |
| 8 | Jorian Nicole Baucom | Courage | 2022 | Forward | 0.607 |
| 9 | Debinha | KC Current | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.603 |
| 10 | Barbra Banda | Pride | 2026 | Forward | 0.590 |