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Ruben

Aguilar

RBFrance · RC Lens

№ 203746Established €2.1M +0.19

Player dossierLigue 1

RubenAguilar

RBRight-BackDefender

Club
RC Lens
League
Ligue 1
Nationality
France
Age
33
Height
172 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
1 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Aguilar at €2.5M. Model A, which never saw Aguilar during training, estimates €2.1M: 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 €737k, 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 €2.1M▲ +1.22B €737k
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
42
Minutes
2,860
Goals
3
Assists
5
Started
33/42
Min / app
68
Cards
8Y 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 Aguilar…

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 €2.5M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €2.5MModel A €2.1M

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

Ruben Aguilar's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 85th, Assists per 90 89th, Minutes, two years 50th, Starts 41st, Minutes, last 365 days 52nd, European club minutes 30th85thGoals89thAssists50thMinutes41stStarts52ndRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.16 this player0.04 defender median89th 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
€400k
Nov 2014
Peak
€12M
Apr 2021
Model target
€2.5M
Jun 2026
Valuations
29
3 club changes
Jun 2026€2.5MRC LensValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2026: €2.5M, RC Lens. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2014-11-20€400kAJ Auxerre
2015-06-06€400kAJ Auxerre
2016-02-04€500kAJ Auxerre
2016-07-13€700kAJ Auxerre
2017-03-20€900kAJ Auxerre
2017-06-15€900kAJ Auxerre
2018-01-24€2.5MMontpellier HSC
2018-03-20€4MMontpellier HSC
2018-06-04€6MMontpellier HSC
2018-12-17€6MMontpellier HSC
2019-06-03€8MMontpellier HSC
2019-12-19€8MAS Monaco
2020-04-08€6.5MAS Monaco
2020-10-15€8MAS Monaco
2021-01-07€10MAS Monaco
2021-04-09€12MAS Monaco
2021-06-04€12MAS Monaco
2021-10-08€10MAS Monaco
2021-12-16€10MAS Monaco
2022-05-30€10MAS Monaco
2022-11-02€10MAS Monaco
2023-06-27€7MAS Monaco
2023-10-16€6MRC Lens
2023-12-18€6MRC Lens
2024-06-03€5MRC Lens
2024-12-10€4MRC Lens
2025-06-03€3.5MRC Lens
2025-12-15€3MRC Lens
2026-06-01€2.5MRC Lens

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
+0.194

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 →

Ligue 1423 players · median €5M

Valued above 24% of the 423 Ligue 1 players.

€100k€750k€5M€30M€2.5MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 54% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€2.5MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Aguilar 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).