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Portrait of Luke O'Nien

Luke

O'Nien

CBEngland · Sunderland AFC

№ 282939Emerging €4M −1.74

Image: FootyLogos

Player dossierPremier League

LukeO'Nien

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club
Sunderland AFC
League
Premier League
Nationality
England
Age
31
Height
174 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
3 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values O'Nien at €700k. Model A, which never saw O'Nien during training, estimates €4M: the market value is 83% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×5.72. 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 €340k, 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.

▼ −1.74A €4M▲ +0.72B €340k
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
15
Minutes
864
Goals
0
Assists
1
Started
8/15
Min / app
58
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 O'Nien…

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 €700k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €700kModel A €4M

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

Luke O'Nien's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 18th, Assists per 90 78th, Minutes, two years 9th, Starts 10th, Minutes, last 365 days 25th, European club minutes 30th18thGoals78thAssists9thMinutes10thStarts25thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.10 this player0.04 defender median78th 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
€150k
Aug 2016
Peak
€1.8M
Dec 2023
Model target
€700k
Jun 2026
Valuations
11
1 club change
Jun 2026€700kSunderland AFCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2026: €700k, Sunderland AFC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2016-08-05€150kWycombe Wanderers
2022-06-30€1.2MSunderland AFC
2022-10-27€1.2MSunderland AFC
2023-06-01€1.2MSunderland AFC
2023-12-21€1.8MSunderland AFC
2024-05-24€1.8MSunderland AFC
2024-12-30€1.5MSunderland AFC
2025-05-27€1.5MSunderland AFC
2025-12-09€1.3MSunderland AFC
2026-03-09€1MSunderland AFC
2026-06-03€700kSunderland AFC

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
−1.744

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 →

Premier League555 players · median €18M

Valued above 4% of the 555 Premier League players.

€150k€1M€7.5M€50M€700kSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 26% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€700kSee them in the Explorer →

Where O'Nien 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).