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Tim

Skarke

CFGermany · 1.FC Union Berlin

№ 287920Emerging €2.6M −0.53

Player dossierBundesliga

TimSkarke

CFCentre-ForwardAttack

Club
1.FC Union Berlin
League
Bundesliga
Nationality
Germany
Age
29
Height
181 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
27 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Skarke at €1.5M. Model A, which never saw Skarke during training, estimates €2.6M: the market value is 41% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.70. 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 €1.4M, 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.

▼ −0.53A €2.6M▲ +0.06B €1.4M
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
60
Minutes
1,896
Goals
1
Assists
3
Started
16/60
Min / app
32
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 Skarke…

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 €1.5M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €1.5MModel A €2.6M

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 1,583 attackers

Tim Skarke's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 8th, Assists per 90 48th, Minutes, two years 42nd, Starts 8th, Minutes, last 365 days 23rd, European club minutes 28th8thGoals48thAssists42ndMinutes8thStarts23rdRecent28thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.14 this player0.15 attacker median48th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.73

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
Sept 2014
Peak
€3M
Mar 2024
Model target
€1.5M
May 2026
Valuations
31
5 club changes
May 2026€1.5M1.FC Union BerlinValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €1.5M, 1.FC Union Berlin. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2014-09-13€100k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2015-01-13€100k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2015-07-01€100k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2015-10-22€200k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2016-02-11€200k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2016-07-22€250k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2017-01-23€400k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2017-06-27€500k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2018-01-22€500k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2018-06-19€500k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2019-01-08€450k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2019-06-12€450k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2019-09-25€550kSV Darmstadt 98
2019-12-13€550kSV Darmstadt 98
2020-04-08€450kSV Darmstadt 98
2021-02-08€450kSV Darmstadt 98
2021-03-29€600kSV Darmstadt 98
2021-06-16€600kSV Darmstadt 98
2021-12-15€600kSV Darmstadt 98
2022-06-16€1MSV Darmstadt 98
2022-11-09€1M1.FC Union Berlin
2023-06-22€1.2MFC Schalke 04
2023-10-18€2MSV Darmstadt 98
2023-12-14€2MSV Darmstadt 98
2024-03-27€3MSV Darmstadt 98
2024-05-29€3MSV Darmstadt 98
2024-12-20€3M1.FC Union Berlin
2025-03-27€2.5M1.FC Union Berlin
2025-06-05€2M1.FC Union Berlin
2025-12-19€1.8M1.FC Union Berlin
2026-05-27€1.5M1.FC Union Berlin

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
−0.531

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 12% of the 451 Bundesliga players.

€300k€2M€15M€100M€1.5MSee them in the Explorer →

Attackers, all leagues1,583 players · median €2.5M

Valued above 37% of the 1,583 attackers.

€20k€300k€5M€75M€1.5MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Skarke 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).