Denis
Popenkov
LBRussia · Akron Tolyatti
Player dossierPremier Liga
DenisPopenkov
LBLeft-BackDefender
- Club
- Akron Tolyatti
- League
- Premier Liga
- Nationality
- Russia
- Age
- 19
- Height
- 179 cm
- Foot
- Left
- Valued
- 26 May 2026
Reading the valuation
The market values Popenkov at €200k. Model A, which never saw Popenkov during training, estimates €366k: the market value is 45% below that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.83. Model A's typical held-out miss is ×1.50 either way, so this gap is larger than its usual error.
Without league and club, Model B estimates €397k, 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
- 6
- Minutes
- 458
- Goals
- 0
- Assists
- 0
- Started
- 5/6
- Min / app
- 76
- Cards
- 1Y 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 Popenkov…
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 €200k
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 2,065 defenders
Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)
Starts
Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.
83% this player83% defender median52nd 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
- €100k
- Sept 2025
- Peak
- €200k
- May 2026
- Model target
- €200k
- May 2026
- Valuations
- 3
- 1 club change
May 2026: €200k, Akron Tolyatti. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-18 | €100k | Akron-2 Togliatti |
| 2025-12-16 | €100k | Akron-2 Togliatti |
| 2026-05-26 | €200k | Akron Tolyatti |
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
- −0.604
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 →Premier Liga412 players · median €1M
Valued above 2% of the 412 Premier Liga players.
See them in the Explorer →Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M
Valued above 5% of the 2,065 defenders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Popenkov appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- PesjakovGKKrylya Sovetov Samara · Premier Liga€200k
- KvekveskiriDMFC Orenburg · Premier Liga€200k
- ChernovLBFC Rostov · Premier Liga€200k
- DyupinGKFC Sochi · Premier Liga€200k
- CaroleLBKayserispor · defenders€200k
- ZankaCBFC Copenhagen · defenders€200k
- BambaCBAngers SCO · defenders€200k
- ColemanRBEverton FC · defenders€200k
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).