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Samuel

Bastien

CMDR Congo · Fortuna Sittard

№ 289510Emerging €406k −0.30

Player dossierEredivisie

SamuelBastien

CMCentral MidfieldMidfield

Club
Fortuna Sittard
League
Eredivisie
Nationality
DR Congo
Age
29
Height
175 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
28 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Bastien at €300k. Model A, which never saw Bastien during training, estimates €406k: the market value is 26% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.35. 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 €619k, 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.

▼ −0.30A €406k▼ −0.72B €619k
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
31
Minutes
1,432
Goals
0
Assists
2
Started
14/31
Min / app
46
Cards
0Y 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 Bastien…

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 €300k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €300kModel A €406k

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 1,687 midfielders

Samuel Bastien's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 10th, Assists per 90 62nd, Minutes, two years 24th, Starts 16th, Minutes, last 365 days 2nd, European club minutes 30th10thGoals62ndAssists24thMinutes16thStarts2ndRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.13 this player0.09 midfielder median62nd percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.74

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
€300k
Oct 2014
Peak
€7M
Oct 2020
Model target
€300k
May 2026
Valuations
33
6 club changes
May 2026€300kFortuna SittardValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €300k, Fortuna Sittard. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2014-10-05€300kRSC Anderlecht
2015-01-07€300kRSC Anderlecht
2015-06-30€300kRSC Anderlecht
2015-12-28€400kUS Avellino 1912
2016-06-13€800kUS Avellino 1912
2017-01-02€800kChievo Verona
2017-06-08€1.5MChievo Verona
2017-12-29€2.5MChievo Verona
2018-06-07€2.5MChievo Verona
2018-09-11€3MStandard Liège
2018-12-27€3MStandard Liège
2019-06-10€2.5MStandard Liège
2019-12-13€5MStandard Liège
2020-03-30€6MStandard Liège
2020-04-08€4.8MStandard Liège
2020-10-16€7MStandard Liège
2021-03-17€5.5MStandard Liège
2021-06-07€4.5MStandard Liège
2021-10-06€4MStandard Liège
2022-01-06€3MStandard Liège
2022-04-12€2.2MStandard Liège
2022-10-27€1.8MBurnley FC
2023-06-01€1.8MBurnley FC
2023-09-27€1.8MKasimpasa
2023-12-21€1.5MKasimpasa
2024-03-15€1.3MKasimpasa
2024-05-31€1.1MKasimpasa
2024-10-14€900kFortuna Sittard
2024-12-17€850kFortuna Sittard
2025-03-28€650kFortuna Sittard
2025-05-28€650kFortuna Sittard
2025-12-02€400kFortuna Sittard
2026-05-28€300kFortuna Sittard

Audit context group-level, not about this player

Audit group
non-UEFA
Population gap, Model A
+0.093 95% CI +0.063 to +0.124
This player, market vs held-out A
−0.302

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 →

Eredivisie425 players · median €1M

Valued above 8% of the 425 Eredivisie players.

€75k€500k€3M€20M€300kSee them in the Explorer →

Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M

Valued above 7% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€300kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Bastien 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).