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John

Lundstram

DMEngland · Hull City

№ 156941Established €2.3M −0.15

Player dossierPremier League

JohnLundstram

DMDefensive MidfieldMidfield

Club
Hull City
League
Premier League
Nationality
England
Age
31
Height
181 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
3 Dec 2025

Reading the valuation

The market values Lundstram at €2M. Model A, which never saw Lundstram during training, estimates €2.3M: the market value is 14% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.17. 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 €2M, 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.

▼ −0.15A €2.3M▼ −0.01B €2M
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
64
Minutes
4,730
Goals
5
Assists
6
Started
51/64
Min / app
74
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 Lundstram…

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 €2M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €2MModel A €2.3M

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 1,687 midfielders

John Lundstram's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 54th, Assists per 90 58th, Minutes, two years 84th, Starts 70th, Minutes, last 365 days 49th, European club minutes 77th54thGoals58thAssists84thMinutes70thStarts49thRecent77thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Minutes, two years

Total club minutes in the two-year window: how much the player was used.

4,730 this player2,607 midfielder median84th percentile

451peer deciles · median line · this player ●9,624

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
€300k
Jul 2013
Peak
€10M
Mar 2020
Model target
€2M
Dec 2025
Valuations
26
6 club changes
Dec 2025€2MHull CityValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Dec 2025: €2M, Hull City. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2013-07-25€300kEverton FC
2014-01-08€500kYeovil Town
2016-10-11€500kOxford United
2017-09-18€500kSheffield United
2018-02-27€750kSheffield United
2018-09-24€750kSheffield United
2019-06-28€500kSheffield United
2019-09-12€2MSheffield United
2019-12-10€6MSheffield United
2020-03-09€10MSheffield United
2020-04-08€8MSheffield United
2020-10-13€8MSheffield United
2021-03-18€7MSheffield United
2021-06-08€7MSheffield United
2021-12-31€5.5MRangers FC
2022-06-27€7.5MRangers FC
2022-12-13€7.5MRangers FC
2023-06-26€7.5MRangers FC
2023-12-05€6.5MRangers FC
2024-05-30€5MRangers FC
2024-10-04€4MTrabzonspor
2024-12-23€3.6MTrabzonspor
2025-03-20€3.2MTrabzonspor
2025-06-18€2.8MTrabzonspor
2025-10-06€2.2MHull City
2025-12-03€2MHull City

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
−0.153

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 League555 players · median €18M

Valued above 9% of the 555 Premier League players.

€150k€1M€7.5M€50M€2MSee them in the Explorer →

Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M

Valued above 46% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€2MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Lundstram 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).