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João

Moutinho

CMPortugal · SC Braga

№ 29364Emerging €910k −0.60

Player dossierLiga Portugal

JoãoMoutinho

CMCentral MidfieldMidfield

Club
SC Braga
League
Liga Portugal
Nationality
Portugal
Age
39
Height
170 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
28 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Moutinho at €500k. Model A, which never saw Moutinho during training, estimates €910k: the market value is 45% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.82. 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 €1.8M, 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.

▼ −0.60A €910k▼ −1.27B €1.8M
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
85
Minutes
6,016
Goals
2
Assists
5
Started
71/85
Min / app
71
Cards
15Y 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 Moutinho…

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 €500k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €500kModel A €910k

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

João Moutinho's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 24th, Assists per 90 41st, Minutes, two years 95th, Starts 76th, Minutes, last 365 days 97th, European club minutes 96th24thGoals41stAssists95thMinutes76thStarts97thRecent96thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Minutes, last 365 days

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

3,601 this player1,541 midfielder median97th percentile

0peer deciles · median line · this player ●4,800

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
€800k
Feb 2005
Peak
€30M
Mar 2013
Model target
€500k
May 2026
Valuations
47
4 club changes
May 2026€500kSC BragaValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €500k, SC Braga. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2005-02-08€800kSporting CP
2005-04-21€2MSporting CP
2005-07-08€6MSporting CP
2005-10-28€7MSporting CP
2006-10-16€8.5MSporting CP
2007-09-20€10MSporting CP
2008-09-18€13.5MSporting CP
2009-02-01€14.5MSporting CP
2009-07-02€15.5MSporting CP
2010-02-03€16MSporting CP
2010-06-10€14.5MSporting CP
2011-02-04€17MFC Porto
2011-06-15€20MFC Porto
2012-02-02€23MFC Porto
2012-07-07€26MFC Porto
2013-03-27€30MFC Porto
2013-07-02€30MAS Monaco
2014-01-14€30MAS Monaco
2014-08-07€30MAS Monaco
2014-11-20€20MAS Monaco
2015-01-14€20MAS Monaco
2015-06-06€20MAS Monaco
2016-02-04€18MAS Monaco
2016-06-01€18MAS Monaco
2016-07-13€18MAS Monaco
2016-11-01€15MAS Monaco
2017-01-16€15MAS Monaco
2017-06-01€13MAS Monaco
2018-01-24€10MAS Monaco
2018-06-04€10MAS Monaco
2018-12-19€10MWolverhampton Wanderers
2019-06-13€10MWolverhampton Wanderers
2019-12-10€10MWolverhampton Wanderers
2020-04-08€8MWolverhampton Wanderers
2020-10-13€5MWolverhampton Wanderers
2021-03-18€4MWolverhampton Wanderers
2021-06-01€4MWolverhampton Wanderers
2021-12-23€2.5MWolverhampton Wanderers
2022-06-15€2.5MWolverhampton Wanderers
2022-11-03€2MWolverhampton Wanderers
2023-06-20€1.5MWolverhampton Wanderers
2023-12-27€800kSC Braga
2024-06-06€800kSC Braga
2024-12-19€600kSC Braga
2025-05-30€600kSC Braga
2025-12-18€500kSC Braga
2026-05-28€500kSC Braga

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
−0.598

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 →

Liga Portugal423 players · median €1M

Valued above 20% of the 423 Liga Portugal players.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€500kSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 16% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€500kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Moutinho 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).