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Alfons

Sampsted

RBIceland · Go Ahead Eagles

№ 332530Emerging €608k +0.90

Player dossierEredivisie

AlfonsSampsted

RBRight-BackDefender

Club
Go Ahead Eagles
League
Eredivisie
Nationality
Iceland
Age
28
Height
180 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
28 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Sampsted at €1.5M. Model A, which never saw Sampsted during training, estimates €608k: the market value is 147% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×2.47. 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 €780k, closer to the market here, although it is usually further off (typical miss ×2.07).

A gap describes the model's arithmetic for this player's inputs, not what the player is worth.

▲ +0.90A €608k▲ +0.65B €780k
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
19
Minutes
1,114
Goals
1
Assists
2
Started
15/19
Min / app
59
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 Sampsted…

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 €1.5M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €1.5MModel A €608k

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 2,065 defenders

Alfons Sampsted's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 80th, Assists per 90 90th, Minutes, two years 14th, Starts 42nd, Minutes, last 365 days 29th, European club minutes 30th80thGoals90thAssists14thMinutes42ndStarts29thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.16 this player0.04 defender median90th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.58

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
€75k
Jan 2017
Peak
€2.5M
Oct 2023
Model target
€1.5M
May 2026
Valuations
20
7 club changes
May 2026€1.5MGo Ahead EaglesValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €1.5M, Go Ahead Eagles. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2017-01-01€75kBreidablik Kópavogur
2017-06-20€75kIFK Norrköping
2017-11-17€75kIFK Norrköping
2018-06-20€100kIFK Norrköping
2019-01-16€150kIF Sylvia (1922 - 2025)
2019-06-28€100kIF Sylvia (1922 - 2025)
2019-10-16€100kBreidablik Kópavogur
2020-07-25€400kFK Bodø/Glimt
2020-12-31€800kFK Bodø/Glimt
2022-01-03€1.2MFK Bodø/Glimt
2022-12-09€1.5MFK Bodø/Glimt
2023-06-23€1.5MFC Twente Enschede
2023-10-17€2.5MFC Twente Enschede
2023-12-15€2.5MFC Twente Enschede
2024-05-31€2.3MFC Twente Enschede
2024-12-27€2MBirmingham City
2025-06-18€2MBirmingham City
2025-10-06€1.8MBirmingham City
2025-12-03€1.5MBirmingham City
2026-05-28€1.5MGo Ahead Eagles

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
+0.904

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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Eredivisie425 players · median €1M

Valued above 54% of the 425 Eredivisie players.

€75k€500k€3M€20M€1.5MSee them in the Explorer →

Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M

Valued above 43% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€1.5MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Sampsted 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).