Ross
Laidlaw
GKScotland · Ross County FC
Player dossierPremiership
RossLaidlaw
GKGoalkeeperGoalkeeper
- Club
- Ross County FC
- League
- Premiership
- Nationality
- Scotland
- Age
- 33
- Height
- 201 cm
- Foot
- Right
- Valued
- 10 Dec 2025
Reading the valuation
The market values Laidlaw at €100k. Model A, which never saw Laidlaw during training, estimates €67k: the market value is 49% above that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.49. 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 €307k, 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
- 19
- Minutes
- 1,665
- Started
- 19/19
- Min / app
- 88
- Cards
- 0Y 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 Laidlaw…
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 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 485 goalkeepers
Dashed ring: the goalkeeper median (50th percentile)
Starts
Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.
100% this player100% goalkeeper median62nd 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
- €25k
- Jul 2011
- Peak
- €400k
- Jun 2021
- Model target
- €100k
- Dec 2025
- Valuations
- 22
- 2 club changes
Dec 2025: €100k, Ross County FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2011-07-04 | €25k | Raith Rovers FC |
| 2013-10-08 | €100k | Raith Rovers FC |
| 2014-10-01 | €175k | Raith Rovers FC |
| 2015-11-23 | €175k | Raith Rovers FC |
| 2016-11-16 | €200k | Hibernian FC |
| 2018-03-04 | €225k | Hibernian FC |
| 2018-08-08 | €225k | Hibernian FC |
| 2019-01-03 | €225k | Hibernian FC |
| 2019-06-16 | €150k | Hibernian FC |
| 2020-02-05 | €300k | Ross County FC |
| 2020-07-21 | €300k | Ross County FC |
| 2021-01-18 | €350k | Ross County FC |
| 2021-06-28 | €400k | Ross County FC |
| 2021-12-31 | €325k | Ross County FC |
| 2022-06-27 | €400k | Ross County FC |
| 2022-12-13 | €400k | Ross County FC |
| 2023-06-26 | €350k | Ross County FC |
| 2023-12-05 | €375k | Ross County FC |
| 2024-05-30 | €375k | Ross County FC |
| 2024-12-03 | €300k | Ross County FC |
| 2025-06-17 | €200k | Ross County FC |
| 2025-12-10 | €100k | Ross County 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
- +0.400
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.
See them in the Explorer →Goalkeepers, all leagues485 players · median €1M
Valued above 3% of the 485 goalkeepers.
See them in the Explorer →Where Laidlaw appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- BainGKFalkirk FC · Premiership€100k
- ShinnieDMAberdeen FC · Premiership€100k
- WilsonCBLivingston FC · Premiership€100k
- HoltCMSt. Johnstone FC · Premiership€100k
- PasveerGKHeracles Almelo · goalkeepers€100k
- FernándezGKDeportivo Alavés · goalkeepers€100k
- TaşkıranGKAlanyaspor · goalkeepers€100k
- RibeiroGKCF Estrela Amadora · goalkeepers€100k
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).