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Chris

Cadden

RBScotland · Hibernian FC

№ 277782Emerging €574k −0.14

Player dossierPremiership

ChrisCadden

RBRight-BackDefender

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

Reading the valuation

The market values Cadden at €500k. Model A, which never saw Cadden during training, estimates €574k: the market value is 13% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.15. 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 €2.2M, 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.

▼ −0.14A €574k▼ −1.48B €2.2M
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
55
Minutes
3,765
Goals
2
Assists
3
Started
43/55
Min / app
68
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 Cadden…

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 €500k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €500kModel A €574k

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

Chris Cadden's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 62nd, Assists per 90 68th, Minutes, two years 66th, Starts 41st, Minutes, last 365 days 48th, European club minutes 75th62ndGoals68thAssists66thMinutes41stStarts48thRecent75thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

European club minutes

Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.

13% this player0% defender median75th percentile

0%peer deciles · median line · this player ●85%

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
€350k
Feb 2017
Peak
€800k
Feb 2020
Model target
€500k
May 2026
Valuations
19
3 club changes
May 2026€500kHibernian FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €500k, Hibernian FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2017-02-14€350kMotherwell FC
2018-03-04€600kMotherwell FC
2018-08-08€700kMotherwell FC
2019-01-03€700kMotherwell FC
2020-02-28€800kColumbus Crew SC
2020-04-08€650kColumbus Crew SC
2020-08-26€800kColumbus Crew
2020-12-18€800kColumbus Crew
2021-06-28€700kHibernian FC
2021-12-31€650kHibernian FC
2022-06-27€650kHibernian FC
2022-12-13€650kHibernian FC
2023-06-26€700kHibernian FC
2023-12-05€650kHibernian FC
2024-05-30€650kHibernian FC
2024-12-03€600kHibernian FC
2025-06-17€600kHibernian FC
2025-12-10€600kHibernian FC
2026-05-20€500kHibernian 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
−0.138

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 →

Premiership311 players · median €400k

Valued above 55% of the 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€500kSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 19% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€500kSee 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).