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Moritz

Nicolas

GKGermany · Borussia Mönchengladbach

№ 284270Established €7.4M +0.08

Player dossierBundesliga

MoritzNicolas

GKGoalkeeperGoalkeeper

Club
Borussia Mönchengladbach
League
Bundesliga
Nationality
Germany
Age
28
Height
193 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
27 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Nicolas at €8M. Model A, which never saw Nicolas during training, estimates €7.4M: the market value is 9% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.09. 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 €3.8M, 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.

▲ +0.08A €7.4M▲ +0.75B €3.8M
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
57
Minutes
5,060
Started
57/57
Min / app
89
Cards
1Y 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 Nicolas…

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 €8M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €8MModel A €7.4M

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 485 goalkeepers

Moritz Nicolas's percentiles among goalkeepers: Minutes, two years 77th, Starts 62nd, Minutes, last 365 days 88th, European club minutes 32nd77thMinutes62ndStarts88thRecent32ndEurope

Dashed ring: the goalkeeper median (50th percentile)

Minutes, last 365 days

Club minutes in the final year of the window: recent involvement, or the absence of it.

3,330 this player1,560 goalkeeper median88th percentile

0peer deciles · median line · this player ●4,970

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
€25k
Jul 2014
Peak
€8M
May 2026
Model target
€8M
May 2026
Valuations
28
6 club changes
May 2026€8MBorussia MönchengladbachValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €8M, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2014-07-27€25kRot-Weiss Essen
2015-01-01€25kRot-Weiss Essen
2015-06-30€50kRot-Weiss Essen
2016-01-15€100kBorussia Mönchengladbach II
2016-07-15€100kBorussia Mönchengladbach
2017-02-07€100kBorussia Mönchengladbach
2017-06-19€100kBorussia Mönchengladbach
2017-12-28€150kBorussia Mönchengladbach
2018-06-05€150kBorussia Mönchengladbach
2018-12-18€150kBorussia Mönchengladbach
2019-06-05€150kBorussia Mönchengladbach
2019-12-17€150k1.FC Union Berlin
2020-07-08€250k1.FC Union Berlin
2021-02-08€250kVfL Osnabrück
2021-06-16€250kVfL Osnabrück
2021-12-30€250kFC Viktoria Köln
2022-06-01€350kFC Viktoria Köln
2023-07-04€350kBorussia Mönchengladbach
2023-10-18€800kBorussia Mönchengladbach
2023-12-14€1.5MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2024-03-27€2MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2024-05-29€2.5MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2024-12-20€3.5MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2025-03-27€5MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2025-06-05€5MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2025-12-19€5MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2026-03-20€6MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2026-05-27€8MBorussia Mönchengladbach

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
+0.084

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 →

Bundesliga451 players · median €5M

Valued above 60% of the 451 Bundesliga players.

€300k€2M€15M€100M€8MSee them in the Explorer →

Goalkeepers, all leagues485 players · median €1M

Valued above 85% of the 485 goalkeepers.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€8MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Nicolas 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).