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Portrait of Stanislav Lobotka

Stanislav

Lobotka

DMSlovakia · SSC Napoli

№ 192735Elite €8.3M +0.19

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Player dossierSerie A

StanislavLobotka

DMDefensive MidfieldMidfield

Club
SSC Napoli
League
Serie A
Nationality
Slovakia
Age
31
Height
168 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
29 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Lobotka at €10M. Model A, which never saw Lobotka during training, estimates €8.3M: the market value is 21% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.21. 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 €4.9M, 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.

▲ +0.19A €8.3M▲ +0.72B €4.9M
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
76
Minutes
6,014
Goals
1
Assists
3
Started
71/76
Min / app
79
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 Lobotka…

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 €10M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €10MModel A €8.3M

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

Stanislav Lobotka's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 20th, Assists per 90 26th, Minutes, two years 95th, Starts 91st, Minutes, last 365 days 95th, European club minutes 70th20thGoals26thAssists95thMinutes91stStarts95thRecent70thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Minutes, two years

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

6,014 this player2,607 midfielder median95th 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
€25k
Jan 2012
Peak
€40M
Jun 2023
Model target
€10M
May 2026
Valuations
41
5 club changes
May 2026€10MSSC NapoliValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €10M, SSC Napoli. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2012-01-20€25kAS Trencin
2012-06-14€50kAS Trencin
2012-12-07€125kAS Trencin
2013-06-12€200kAS Trencin
2014-02-10€300kAjax Amsterdam U21
2014-12-25€350kAS Trencin
2015-06-09€600kAS Trencin
2015-09-02€600kFC Nordsjaelland
2016-01-21€600kFC Nordsjaelland
2016-08-12€700kFC Nordsjaelland
2016-12-12€700kFC Nordsjaelland
2017-03-27€800kFC Nordsjaelland
2017-06-21€1MFC Nordsjaelland
2017-08-17€5MCelta de Vigo
2018-01-01€7.5MCelta de Vigo
2018-03-22€10MCelta de Vigo
2018-05-30€15MCelta de Vigo
2018-10-31€25MCelta de Vigo
2018-12-21€25MCelta de Vigo
2019-06-11€25MCelta de Vigo
2019-12-20€20MCelta de Vigo
2020-04-08€16MSSC Napoli
2020-08-25€19MSSC Napoli
2020-12-29€14MSSC Napoli
2021-03-23€11MSSC Napoli
2021-05-31€9MSSC Napoli
2021-12-28€10MSSC Napoli
2022-03-15€15MSSC Napoli
2022-06-07€20MSSC Napoli
2022-11-11€30MSSC Napoli
2023-03-21€38MSSC Napoli
2023-06-15€40MSSC Napoli
2023-12-20€35MSSC Napoli
2024-03-12€30MSSC Napoli
2024-06-05€28MSSC Napoli
2024-12-18€28MSSC Napoli
2025-03-25€25MSSC Napoli
2025-06-17€25MSSC Napoli
2025-12-23€18MSSC Napoli
2026-03-24€15MSSC Napoli
2026-05-29€10MSSC Napoli

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
+0.189

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 →

Serie A507 players · median €5.5M

Valued above 65% of the 507 Serie A players.

€100k€750k€5M€30M€10MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 78% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€10MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Lobotka 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).