Walter
Benítez
GKArgentina · Crystal Palace
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Player dossierPremier League
WalterBenítez
GKGoalkeeperGoalkeeper
- Club
- Crystal Palace
- League
- Premier League
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Age
- 33
- Height
- 191 cm
- Foot
- Right
- Valued
- 3 Jun 2026
Premier LeagueReading the valuation
The market values Benítez at €4M. Model A, which never saw Benítez during training, estimates €2.3M: the market value is 73% above that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.73. 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 €1.1M, 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.
- Apps
- 51
- Minutes
- 4,575
- Started
- 51/51
- Min / app
- 90
- Cards
- 2Y 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 Benítez…
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 €4M
Checking APIAsking 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
Dashed ring: the goalkeeper median (50th percentile)
European club minutes
Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.
22% this player0% goalkeeper median87th percentile
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
- €150k
- Feb 2014
- Peak
- €14M
- May 2022
- Model target
- €4M
- Jun 2026
- Valuations
- 30
- 4 club changes
Jun 2026: €4M, Crystal Palace. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2014-02-10 | €150k | Unknown |
| 2015-01-10 | €600k | Quilmes AC |
| 2015-07-14 | €1.8M | Quilmes AC |
| 2016-02-06 | €3.5M | Quilmes AC |
| 2016-07-13 | €3.5M | OGC Nice |
| 2016-11-01 | €2.5M | OGC Nice |
| 2017-01-16 | €2M | OGC Nice |
| 2017-06-01 | €1.5M | OGC Nice |
| 2018-01-24 | €3.5M | OGC Nice |
| 2018-06-04 | €3.5M | OGC Nice |
| 2018-12-17 | €7M | OGC Nice |
| 2019-03-07 | €8.5M | OGC Nice |
| 2019-06-03 | €10M | OGC Nice |
| 2019-12-19 | €10M | OGC Nice |
| 2020-04-08 | €8M | OGC Nice |
| 2020-10-15 | €10M | OGC Nice |
| 2021-06-04 | €10M | OGC Nice |
| 2021-12-16 | €12M | OGC Nice |
| 2022-05-30 | €14M | OGC Nice |
| 2022-11-11 | €12M | PSV Eindhoven |
| 2023-06-23 | €12M | PSV Eindhoven |
| 2023-12-15 | €12M | PSV Eindhoven |
| 2024-03-18 | €13M | PSV Eindhoven |
| 2024-05-31 | €13M | PSV Eindhoven |
| 2024-12-17 | €12M | PSV Eindhoven |
| 2025-03-28 | €10M | PSV Eindhoven |
| 2025-05-28 | €7.5M | PSV Eindhoven |
| 2025-10-17 | €6M | Crystal Palace |
| 2025-12-09 | €5M | Crystal Palace |
| 2026-06-03 | €4M | Crystal Palace |
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
- +0.547
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 →Premier League555 players · median €18M
Valued above 16% of the 555 Premier League players.
See them in the Explorer →Goalkeepers, all leagues485 players · median €1M
Valued above 75% of the 485 goalkeepers.
See them in the Explorer →Where Benítez appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- OrtegaGKNottingham Forest · Premier League€4M
- AreolaGKWest Ham United · Premier League€4M
- WilsonCFWest Ham United · Premier League€4M
- BarkleyCMAston Villa · Premier League€4M
- NeuerGKBayern Munich · goalkeepers€4M
- ZettererGKEintracht Frankfurt · goalkeepers€4M
- PeñaGKElche CF · goalkeepers€4M
- BijlowGKGenoa CFC · goalkeepers€4M
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).