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Jordan

Obita

LBUganda · Hibernian FC

№ 158816Emerging €335k −0.80

Player dossierPremiership

JordanObita

LBLeft-BackDefender

Club
Hibernian FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Uganda
Age
32
Height
181 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
20 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Obita at €150k. Model A, which never saw Obita during training, estimates €335k: the market value is 55% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×2.24. 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 €912k, 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.

▼ −0.80A €335k▼ −1.81B €912k
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
60
Minutes
3,947
Goals
0
Assists
8
Started
40/60
Min / app
66
Cards
11Y 1R

Club matches, two years to the valuation date

The Valuation Journey

What moves Model A

Asking the prediction API to explain Model A for Obita…

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 €150k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €150kModel A €335k

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

Jordan Obita's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 18th, Assists per 90 93rd, Minutes, two years 68th, Starts 23rd, Minutes, last 365 days 65th, European club minutes 77th18thGoals93rdAssists68thMinutes23rdStarts65thRecent77thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.18 this player0.04 defender median93rd percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.58

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
Aug 2011
Peak
€3M
Feb 2017
Model target
€150k
May 2026
Valuations
27
3 club changes
May 2026€150kHibernian FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €150k, Hibernian FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2011-08-15€50kReading FC
2014-01-08€500kReading FC
2015-02-24€2MReading FC
2015-09-24€2.5MReading FC
2016-04-20€2.5MReading FC
2016-09-01€2.5MReading FC
2017-02-27€3MReading FC
2017-09-18€3MReading FC
2018-02-27€3MReading FC
2018-09-24€2.5MReading FC
2019-02-27€1MReading FC
2019-06-28€1MReading FC
2020-02-27€1MReading FC
2020-04-08€800kReading FC
2020-11-10€600kOxford United
2021-03-10€600kWycombe Wanderers
2021-06-30€500kWycombe Wanderers
2022-07-29€500kWycombe Wanderers
2023-04-05€350kWycombe Wanderers
2023-06-09€350kWycombe Wanderers
2023-12-05€350kHibernian FC
2024-05-30€400kHibernian FC
2024-12-03€300kHibernian FC
2025-06-17€250kHibernian FC
2025-12-10€200kHibernian FC
2026-03-05€150kHibernian FC
2026-05-20€150kHibernian FC

Audit context group-level, not about this player

Audit group
non-UEFA
Population gap, Model A
+0.093 95% CI +0.063 to +0.124
This player, market vs held-out A
−0.805

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 18% of the 311 Premiership players.

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

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

Valued above 3% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€150kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Obita 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).