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Alex

Iacovitti

CBScotland · Ross County FC

№ 287051Emerging €228k −0.42

Player dossierPremiership

AlexIacovitti

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club
Ross County FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Scotland
Age
28
Height
193 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
10 Dec 2025

Reading the valuation

The market values Iacovitti at €150k. Model A, which never saw Iacovitti during training, estimates €228k: the market value is 34% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.52. 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 €1M, 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.

▼ −0.42A €228k▼ −1.90B €1M
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
16
Minutes
842
Goals
3
Assists
0
Started
9/16
Min / app
53
Cards
3Y 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 Iacovitti…

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 €150k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €150kModel A €228k

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

Alex Iacovitti's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 100th, Assists per 90 17th, Minutes, two years 8th, Starts 12th, Minutes, last 365 days 13th, European club minutes 69th100thGoals17thAssists8thMinutes12thStarts13thRecent69thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

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

0.32 this player0.03 defender median100th 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
€100k
Jul 2020
Peak
€450k
Mar 2023
Model target
€150k
Dec 2025
Valuations
14
3 club changes
Dec 2025€150kRoss County FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Dec 2025: €150k, Ross County FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2020-07-21€100kRoss County FC
2021-01-18€300kRoss County FC
2021-06-28€375kRoss County FC
2021-12-31€350kRoss County FC
2022-06-27€400kRoss County FC
2022-12-13€400kRoss County FC
2023-03-22€450kRoss County FC
2023-06-26€450kRoss County FC
2023-12-27€450kPort Vale FC
2024-06-28€375kPort Vale FC
2024-12-03€400kSt. Mirren FC
2025-06-17€400kSt. Mirren FC
2025-10-09€250kRoss County FC
2025-12-10€150kRoss County 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
−0.419

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 18% of the 311 Premiership players.

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

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

Valued above 3% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€150kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Iacovitti 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).