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Clark

Robertson

CBScotland · Dundee FC

№ 119569Emerging €112k −0.11

Player dossierPremiership

ClarkRobertson

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club
Dundee FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Scotland
Age
32
Height
188 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
20 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Robertson at €100k. Model A, which never saw Robertson during training, estimates €112k: the market value is 11% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.12. 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 €569k, 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.

▼ −0.11A €112k▼ −1.74B €569k
Pitch length is a log value scale fitted to this player's figures. ● observed · ◇ Model A · dashed ◇ Model B · each arc is a residual, log(observed) − log(estimate).
Apps
34
Minutes
2,841
Goals
3
Assists
1
Started
33/34
Min / app
84
Cards
6Y 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 Robertson…

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 €100k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €100kModel A €112k

Asking 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 2,065 defenders

Clark Robertson's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 85th, Assists per 90 45th, Minutes, two years 50th, Starts 90th, Minutes, last 365 days 37th, European club minutes 30th85thGoals45thAssists50thMinutes90thStarts37thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Starts

Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.

97% this player83% defender median90th percentile

18%peer deciles · median line · this player ●100%

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
Feb 2011
Peak
€500k
Jun 2019
Model target
€100k
May 2026
Valuations
26
6 club changes
May 2026€100kDundee FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €100k, Dundee FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2011-02-03€75kAberdeen FC U20
2011-07-04€100kAberdeen FC
2012-02-06€150kAberdeen FC
2012-07-22€200kAberdeen FC
2013-02-15€225kAberdeen FC
2013-10-08€300kAberdeen FC
2014-10-09€250kAberdeen FC
2015-10-16€250kBlackpool FC
2016-05-30€250kBlackpool FC
2016-08-05€250kBlackpool FC
2018-09-24€250kRotherham United
2019-06-28€500kRotherham United
2020-04-08€400kRotherham United
2020-10-15€400kRotherham United
2021-03-10€350kRotherham United
2021-06-30€300kRotherham United
2022-07-29€300kPortsmouth FC
2023-04-05€300kPortsmouth FC
2023-06-09€300kPortsmouth FC
2023-12-22€300kFC Ashdod
2024-06-17€350kFC Ashdod
2024-12-03€300kDundee FC
2025-06-17€200kDundee FC
2025-12-10€150kDundee FC
2026-03-05€100kDundee FC
2026-05-20€100kDundee FC

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
−0.115

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 →

Premiership311 players · median €400k

Valued above 7% of the 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€100kSee them in the Explorer →

Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M

Valued above 1% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€100kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Robertson appears

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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position

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).