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Danny

Bakker

CBNetherlands · SC Telstar

№ 250440Emerging €696k −0.44

Player dossierEredivisie

DannyBakker

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club
SC Telstar
League
Eredivisie
Nationality
Netherlands
Age
31
Height
184 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
28 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Bakker at €450k. Model A, which never saw Bakker during training, estimates €696k: the market value is 35% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.55. 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 €1.2M, 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.

▼ −0.44A €696k▼ −0.96B €1.2M
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
34
Minutes
2,939
Goals
5
Assists
2
Started
33/34
Min / app
86
Cards
2Y 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 Bakker…

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 €450k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €450kModel A €696k

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

Danny Bakker's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 95th, Assists per 90 63rd, Minutes, two years 52nd, Starts 90th, Minutes, last 365 days 88th, European club minutes 30th95thGoals63rdAssists52ndMinutes90thStarts88thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

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

0.15 this player0.03 defender median95th 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
Jan 2013
Peak
€1M
Jun 2018
Model target
€450k
May 2026
Valuations
29
5 club changes
May 2026€450kSC TelstarValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €450k, SC Telstar. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2013-01-14€50kADO Den Haag U19
2013-06-12€100kADO Den Haag
2014-02-11€250kADO Den Haag
2014-08-10€500kADO Den Haag
2015-02-12€500kADO Den Haag
2015-07-01€550kADO Den Haag
2015-11-11€650kADO Den Haag
2016-02-05€750kADO Den Haag
2016-07-15€850kADO Den Haag
2017-01-18€650kADO Den Haag
2017-06-07€550kADO Den Haag
2018-01-17€850kADO Den Haag
2018-06-12€1MADO Den Haag
2018-12-28€1MADO Den Haag
2019-06-12€1MADO Den Haag
2019-09-19€800kADO Den Haag
2019-12-18€800kADO Den Haag
2020-04-08€650kADO Den Haag
2020-12-31€600kRoda JC Kerkrade
2021-10-12€550kNAC Breda
2022-01-12€550kNAC Breda
2022-06-23€550kNAC Breda
2023-07-04€450kWithout Club
2024-01-08€400kSC Telstar
2024-06-10€325kSC Telstar
2024-12-10€350kSC Telstar
2025-06-09€450kSC Telstar
2025-12-02€450kSC Telstar
2026-05-28€450kSC Telstar

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
−0.436

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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Eredivisie425 players · median €1M

Valued above 22% of the 425 Eredivisie players.

€75k€500k€3M€20M€450kSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 17% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€450kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Bakker 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).