Stuart
Armstrong
CMScotland · Aberdeen FC
Player dossierPremiership
StuartArmstrong
CMCentral MidfieldMidfield
- Club
- Aberdeen FC
- League
- Premiership
- Nationality
- Scotland
- Age
- 34
- Height
- 183 cm
- Foot
- Right
- Valued
- 20 May 2026
Reading the valuation
The market values Armstrong at €200k. Model A, which never saw Armstrong during training, estimates €74k: the market value is 170% above that estimate.
That is a factor of ×2.70. 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 €216k, closer to the market here, although it is usually further off (typical miss ×2.07).
A gap describes the model's arithmetic for this player's inputs, not what the player is worth.
- Apps
- 27
- Minutes
- 1,974
- Goals
- 1
- Assists
- 4
- Started
- 23/27
- Min / app
- 73
- 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 Armstrong…
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 1,687 midfielders
Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)
Assists per 90
Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.
0.18 this player0.09 midfielder median79th 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
- €50k
- Jul 2011
- Peak
- €8M
- Dec 2018
- Model target
- €200k
- May 2026
- Valuations
- 32
- 5 club changes
May 2026: €200k, Aberdeen FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2011-07-11 | €50k | Dundee United FC |
| 2012-02-02 | €250k | Dundee United FC |
| 2012-07-23 | €250k | Dundee United FC |
| 2013-02-14 | €450k | Dundee United FC |
| 2013-10-08 | €500k | Dundee United FC |
| 2014-02-13 | €550k | Dundee United FC |
| 2014-10-09 | €500k | Dundee United FC |
| 2015-01-10 | €600k | Dundee United FC |
| 2015-11-30 | €1.3M | Celtic FC |
| 2017-02-14 | €1.5M | Celtic FC |
| 2018-03-04 | €2M | Celtic FC |
| 2018-08-13 | €7M | Southampton FC |
| 2018-12-19 | €8M | Southampton FC |
| 2019-06-13 | €8M | Southampton FC |
| 2019-12-10 | €8M | Southampton FC |
| 2020-04-08 | €6.5M | Southampton FC |
| 2020-10-13 | €6.5M | Southampton FC |
| 2021-03-18 | €6.5M | Southampton FC |
| 2021-05-28 | €8M | Southampton FC |
| 2021-12-23 | €6M | Southampton FC |
| 2022-06-15 | €6M | Southampton FC |
| 2022-11-03 | €6M | Southampton FC |
| 2023-06-20 | €4.5M | Southampton FC |
| 2023-10-27 | €3M | Southampton FC |
| 2023-12-21 | €2M | Southampton FC |
| 2024-05-24 | €2M | Southampton FC |
| 2024-12-12 | €1.5M | Vancouver Whitecaps FC |
| 2025-05-27 | €800k | Sheffield Wednesday |
| 2025-10-08 | €700k | Aberdeen FC |
| 2025-12-10 | €600k | Aberdeen FC |
| 2026-03-05 | €400k | Aberdeen FC |
| 2026-05-20 | €200k | Aberdeen 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
- +0.993
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 26% of the 311 Premiership players.
See them in the Explorer →Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M
Valued above 3% of the 1,687 midfielders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Armstrong appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- HanleyCBHibernian FC · Premiership€200k
- DevlinRBAberdeen FC · Premiership€200k
- NewellCMHibernian FC · Premiership€200k
- DonnellyDMSt. Mirren FC · Premiership€200k
- CazorlaCMReal Oviedo · midfielders€200k
- KvekveskiriDMFC Orenburg · midfielders€200k
- VillafañezAMAE Kifisia · midfielders€200k
- ChurkoAMMetalist 1925 Kharkiv · midfielders€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).