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Nuno da

Costa

CFCape Verde · Basaksehir FK

№ 306166Emerging €951k −0.87

Player dossierSüper Lig

Nuno daCosta

CFCentre-ForwardAttack

Club
Basaksehir FK
League
Süper Lig
Nationality
Cape Verde
Age
35
Height
182 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
21 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Costa at €400k. Model A, which never saw Costa during training, estimates €951k: the market value is 58% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×2.38. 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 €1.5M, 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.

▼ −0.87A €951k▼ −1.33B €1.5M
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
62
Minutes
3,814
Goals
18
Assists
6
Started
42/62
Min / app
62
Cards
10Y 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 Costa…

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 €400k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €400kModel A €951k

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

Nuno da Costa's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 80th, Assists per 90 48th, Minutes, two years 79th, Starts 65th, Minutes, last 365 days 50th, European club minutes 68th80thGoals48thAssists79thMinutes65thStarts50thRecent68thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

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

0.42 this player0.26 attacker median80th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●1.17

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 2016
Peak
€5M
Dec 2018
Model target
€400k
May 2026
Valuations
29
7 club changes
May 2026€400kBasaksehir FKValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €400k, Basaksehir FK. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2016-02-04€150kValenciennes FC
2016-07-13€500kValenciennes FC
2017-03-20€600kValenciennes FC
2017-06-15€600kValenciennes FC
2018-01-24€2MRC Strasbourg Alsace
2018-06-04€2MRC Strasbourg Alsace
2018-10-24€4MRC Strasbourg Alsace
2018-12-17€5MRC Strasbourg Alsace
2019-06-03€5MRC Strasbourg Alsace
2019-12-19€3.5MRC Strasbourg Alsace
2020-02-27€2MNottingham Forest
2020-04-08€1.6MNottingham Forest
2020-10-16€1.6MRoyal Excel Mouscron (-2022)
2021-03-17€1.3MRoyal Excel Mouscron (-2022)
2021-06-07€1MRoyal Excel Mouscron (-2022)
2021-12-27€1MSM Caen
2022-06-02€1.2MSM Caen
2022-11-02€1MAJ Auxerre
2023-06-27€1MAJ Auxerre
2023-09-27€800kKasimpasa
2023-12-21€700kKasimpasa
2024-03-15€800kKasimpasa
2024-05-31€800kKasimpasa
2024-10-04€750kKasimpasa
2024-12-23€650kKasimpasa
2025-03-20€600kKasimpasa
2025-06-18€600kKasimpasa
2025-12-17€500kBasaksehir FK
2026-05-21€400kBasaksehir FK

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
−0.866

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 →

Süper Lig428 players · median €1.2M

Valued above 15% of the 428 Süper Lig players.

€50k€300k€2M€15M€400kSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 11% of the 1,583 attackers.

€20k€300k€5M€75M€400kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Costa 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).