Philipp
Hofmann
CFGermany · VfL Bochum
Player dossierBundesliga
PhilippHofmann
CFCentre-ForwardAttack
- Club
- VfL Bochum
- League
- Bundesliga
- Nationality
- Germany
- Age
- 32
- Height
- 195 cm
- Foot
- Left
- Valued
- 16 Dec 2025
Reading the valuation
The market values Hofmann at €750k. Model A, which never saw Hofmann during training, estimates €775k: the market value is 3% below that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.03. Model A's typical held-out miss is ×1.50 either way, so this gap is within its usual error.
Without league and club, Model B estimates €367k, further from the market. Model B is usually further off (typical miss ×2.07): league and club explain much of how the market prices players.
A gap describes the model's arithmetic for this player's inputs, not what the player is worth.
- Apps
- 49
- Minutes
- 3,172
- Goals
- 7
- Assists
- 4
- Started
- 36/49
- Min / app
- 65
- Cards
- 5Y 0R
Club matches, two years to the valuation date
The Valuation Journey
What moves Model A
Asking the prediction API to explain Model A for Hofmann…
SHAP describes the model's arithmetic for this player's inputs, not what causes market value. Model B can be explained only by the live service; Model A also has a published explanation for the research players.
Model A vs Model B against the observed €750k
Checking APIAsking the prediction API…
Held-out estimates come from cross-validation, with this player outside the training data: the honest comparison. Served models were refitted on every player, this one included, so they sit closer to the market. Shaded band: Model A's typical miss (×1.50 either way).
Player traitspercentiles vs 1,583 attackers
Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)
Starts
Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.
73% this player59% attacker median73rd percentile
No passing, progression or defensive actions exist in the dataset, so no trait claims to measure them.
Valuation history every Transfermarkt valuation on record
- First valuation
- €75k
- Aug 2011
- Peak
- €2.8M
- Jun 2023
- Model target
- €750k
- Dec 2025
- Valuations
- 37
- 10 club changes
Dec 2025: €750k, VfL Bochum. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2011-08-17 | €75k | FC Schalke 04 II |
| 2011-09-29 | €100k | FC Schalke 04 II |
| 2012-07-05 | €200k | FC Schalke 04 |
| 2012-10-23 | €600k | SC Paderborn 07 |
| 2013-01-04 | €600k | SC Paderborn 07 |
| 2013-06-29 | €600k | SC Paderborn 07 |
| 2014-01-20 | €750k | FC Ingolstadt 04 |
| 2014-06-30 | €1M | FC Schalke 04 |
| 2015-01-13 | €1M | 1.FC Kaiserslautern |
| 2015-07-01 | €1M | 1.FC Kaiserslautern |
| 2015-09-24 | €1.5M | Brentford FC |
| 2016-04-20 | €1.5M | Brentford FC |
| 2016-09-01 | €1.3M | Brentford FC |
| 2017-02-27 | €1M | Brentford FC |
| 2017-08-21 | €1M | SpVgg Greuther Fürth |
| 2018-01-22 | €750k | SpVgg Greuther Fürth |
| 2018-06-19 | €600k | Eintracht Braunschweig |
| 2018-10-13 | €500k | Eintracht Braunschweig |
| 2019-01-15 | €500k | Eintracht Braunschweig |
| 2019-06-14 | €500k | Eintracht Braunschweig |
| 2019-09-25 | €600k | Karlsruher SC |
| 2019-12-13 | €1M | Karlsruher SC |
| 2020-04-08 | €800k | Karlsruher SC |
| 2020-07-15 | €1.5M | Karlsruher SC |
| 2021-02-08 | €1.8M | Karlsruher SC |
| 2021-06-16 | €1.8M | Karlsruher SC |
| 2021-12-15 | €1.8M | Karlsruher SC |
| 2022-06-16 | €2M | Karlsruher SC |
| 2022-09-21 | €2.5M | VfL Bochum |
| 2022-11-09 | €2.5M | VfL Bochum |
| 2023-06-22 | €2.8M | VfL Bochum |
| 2023-12-14 | €2.5M | VfL Bochum |
| 2024-03-27 | €1.8M | VfL Bochum |
| 2024-05-29 | €1.8M | VfL Bochum |
| 2024-12-20 | €1.5M | VfL Bochum |
| 2025-06-05 | €1M | VfL Bochum |
| 2025-12-16 | €750k | VfL Bochum |
Audit context group-level, not about this player
- Audit group
- UEFA
- Population gap, Model A
- +0.093 95% CI +0.063 to +0.124
- This player, market vs held-out A
- −0.033
The group comes from first-listed citizenship and is never a model input. Across the population, non-UEFA players' market values sit about 10% above Model A's held-out estimates, relative to UEFA players in the same leagues. One player's residual says nothing about that pattern (typical miss ×1.50), and none of it is evidence of discrimination: the target may itself be biased. Open the Fairness Audit
In context observed value among comparable players in this build
All players in the Terminal →Bundesliga451 players · median €5M
Valued above 5% of the 451 Bundesliga players.
See them in the Explorer →Attackers, all leagues1,583 players · median €2.5M
Valued above 24% of the 1,583 attackers.
See them in the Explorer →Where Hofmann appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- PhilippGKTSG 1899 Hoffenheim · Bundesliga€750k
- WidmerRB1.FSV Mainz 05 · Bundesliga€800k
- DzwigalaCBFC St. Pauli · Bundesliga€800k
- OmlinGKBayer 04 Leverkusen · Bundesliga€800k
- HanssonLWExcelsior Rotterdam · attackers€750k
- MarcussenLWFC Fredericia · attackers€750k
- GrotCFOdense Boldklub · attackers€750k
- WlodarczykCFExcelsior Rotterdam · attackers€750k
Counts and ranks of observed Transfermarkt values only; model errors are never ranked here. Full player export: Every player in the modelling population (D-011).