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Jordan

McGhee

CBScotland · Motherwell FC

№ 193881Emerging €191k −0.65

Player dossierPremiership

JordanMcGhee

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club
Motherwell FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Scotland
Age
29
Height
183 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
20 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values McGhee at €100k. Model A, which never saw McGhee during training, estimates €191k: the market value is 48% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.91. 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 €491k, 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.

▼ −0.65A €191k▼ −1.59B €491k
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
32
Minutes
1,933
Goals
4
Assists
0
Started
22/32
Min / app
60
Cards
4Y 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 McGhee…

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 API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €100kModel A €191k

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 McGhee's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 98th, Assists per 90 17th, Minutes, two years 32nd, Starts 25th, Minutes, last 365 days 3rd, European club minutes 30th98thGoals17thAssists32ndMinutes25thStarts3rdRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

Club goals per 90 minutes played in the two years to the valuation date.

0.19 this player0.03 defender median98th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.41

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
Oct 2013
Peak
€375k
Dec 2021
Model target
€100k
May 2026
Valuations
23
4 club changes
May 2026€100kMotherwell FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €100k, Motherwell FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2013-10-08€50kHeart of Midlothian FC
2014-02-13€150kHeart of Midlothian FC
2014-10-06€150kHeart of Midlothian FC
2015-11-30€250kHeart of Midlothian FC
2016-08-01€250kFC Middlesbrough U23
2018-01-25€225kFalkirk FC
2019-01-03€200kFalkirk FC
2019-06-23€200kFalkirk FC
2020-02-05€250kDundee FC
2020-07-21€300kDundee FC
2021-01-18€300kDundee FC
2021-06-03€300kDundee FC
2021-12-31€375kDundee FC
2022-06-27€350kDundee FC
2022-12-13€350kDundee FC
2023-06-26€325kDundee FC
2023-12-05€325kDundee FC
2024-05-30€350kDundee FC
2024-12-03€350kDundee FC
2025-06-17€350kDundee FC
2025-10-08€250kMotherwell FC
2025-12-10€200kMotherwell FC
2026-05-20€100kMotherwell 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
−0.646

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

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Premiership311 players · median €400k

Valued above 7% of the 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€100kSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 1% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€100kSee them in the Explorer →

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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).