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Dan

Barlaser

DMEngland · Hibernian FC

№ 256773Emerging €573k +0.74

Player dossierPremiership

DanBarlaser

DMDefensive MidfieldMidfield

Club
Hibernian FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
England
Age
29
Height
184 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
20 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Barlaser at €1.2M. Model A, which never saw Barlaser during training, estimates €573k: the market value is 110% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×2.10. 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 €701k, closer to the market here, although it is usually further off (typical miss ×2.07).

A gap describes the model's arithmetic for this player's inputs, not what the player is worth.

▲ +0.74A €573k▲ +0.54B €701k
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
31
Minutes
2,327
Goals
0
Assists
3
Started
28/31
Min / app
75
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 Barlaser…

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 €1.2M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €1.2MModel A €573k

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

Dan Barlaser's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 10th, Assists per 90 58th, Minutes, two years 44th, Starts 87th, Minutes, last 365 days 74th, European club minutes 30th10thGoals58thAssists44thMinutes87thStarts74thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Starts

Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.

90% this player69% midfielder median87th percentile

7%peer deciles · median line · this player ●100%

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
€250k
Oct 2020
Peak
€2.2M
Dec 2023
Model target
€1.2M
May 2026
Valuations
14
2 club changes
May 2026€1.2MHibernian FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €1.2M, Hibernian FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2020-10-15€250kRotherham United
2020-12-22€1.5MRotherham United
2021-03-10€1.8MRotherham United
2021-06-30€1.2MRotherham United
2022-06-30€1.4MRotherham United
2022-09-14€1.8MRotherham United
2022-10-27€2MRotherham United
2023-06-01€2MMiddlesbrough FC
2023-12-21€2.2MMiddlesbrough FC
2024-05-24€2.2MMiddlesbrough FC
2024-12-30€2.2MMiddlesbrough FC
2025-05-27€2MMiddlesbrough FC
2025-12-10€1.8MHibernian FC
2026-05-20€1.2MHibernian 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
+0.740

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 76% of the 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€1.2MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 35% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€1.2MSee 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).