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Portrait of Christoph Baumgartner

Christoph

Baumgartner

AMAustria · RB Leipzig

№ 324278World Class €29.1M +0.32

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Player dossierBundesliga

ChristophBaumgartner

AMAttacking MidfieldMidfield

Club
RB Leipzig
League
Bundesliga
Nationality
Austria
Age
26
Height
180 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
27 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Baumgartner at €40M. Model A, which never saw Baumgartner during training, estimates €29.1M: the market value is 37% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.37. 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 €16.1M, 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.

▲ +0.32A €29.1M▲ +0.91B €16.1M
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
80
Minutes
5,290
Goals
22
Assists
11
Started
61/80
Min / app
66
Cards
18Y 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 Baumgartner…

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 €40M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €40MModel A €29.1M

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

Christoph Baumgartner's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 97th, Assists per 90 81st, Minutes, two years 89th, Starts 64th, Minutes, last 365 days 92nd, European club minutes 71st97thGoals81stAssists89thMinutes64thStarts92ndRecent71stEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

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

0.37 this player0.08 midfielder median97th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.93

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
€350k
Jul 2018
Peak
€40M
May 2026
Model target
€40M
May 2026
Valuations
25
2 club changes
May 2026€40MRB LeipzigValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €40M, RB Leipzig. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2018-07-05€350kTSG 1899 Hoffenheim II
2018-08-06€350kTSG 1899 Hoffenheim II
2019-02-11€350kTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2019-06-05€500kTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2019-10-02€800kTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2019-12-17€2MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2020-02-11€6MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2020-04-08€5.4MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2020-07-08€12MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2020-11-26€18MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2021-02-10€22MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2021-05-27€22MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2021-12-22€22MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2022-06-09€22MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2022-11-09€20MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2023-06-22€24MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2023-12-14€24MRB Leipzig
2024-03-27€20MRB Leipzig
2024-05-29€18MRB Leipzig
2024-12-20€18MRB Leipzig
2025-03-27€15MRB Leipzig
2025-06-05€12MRB Leipzig
2025-12-19€20MRB Leipzig
2026-03-20€30MRB Leipzig
2026-05-27€40MRB Leipzig

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
+0.317

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

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Bundesliga451 players · median €5M

Valued above 93% of the 451 Bundesliga players.

€300k€2M€15M€100M€40MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 96% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€40MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Baumgartner 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).