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Cameron

Carter-Vickers

CBUnited States · Celtic FC

№ 341049Established €3.2M +1.02

Player dossierPremiership

CameronCarter-Vickers

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club
Celtic FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
United States
Age
28
Height
183 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
20 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Carter-Vickers at €9M. Model A, which never saw Carter-Vickers during training, estimates €3.2M: the market value is 179% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×2.79. 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 €3.8M, 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.

▲ +1.02A €3.2M▲ +0.86B €3.8M
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
51
Minutes
4,545
Goals
1
Assists
1
Started
50/51
Min / app
89
Cards
4Y 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 Carter-Vickers…

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 €9M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €9MModel A €3.2M

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

Cameron Carter-Vickers's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 40th, Assists per 90 37th, Minutes, two years 77th, Starts 92nd, Minutes, last 365 days 35th, European club minutes 89th40thGoals37thAssists77thMinutes92ndStarts35thRecent89thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Starts

Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.

98% this player83% defender median92nd percentile

18%peer deciles · median line · this player ●100%

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
€500k
Nov 2016
Peak
€14M
May 2024
Model target
€9M
May 2026
Valuations
24
11 club changes
May 2026€9MCeltic FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €9M, Celtic FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2016-11-25€500kTottenham Hotspur
2017-02-20€500kTottenham Hotspur
2017-06-28€500kTottenham Hotspur
2018-02-27€1MIpswich Town
2018-09-24€1.5MSwansea City
2019-06-13€1.5MTottenham Hotspur
2019-10-16€2.5MStoke City
2020-02-27€2.5MLuton Town
2020-04-08€2MLuton Town
2020-10-13€2MTottenham Hotspur
2021-03-10€2MAFC Bournemouth
2021-06-08€2MTottenham Hotspur
2021-12-31€3MCeltic FC
2022-06-15€7MTottenham Hotspur
2022-11-14€9.5MCeltic FC
2023-03-22€11MCeltic FC
2023-06-26€13MCeltic FC
2023-12-05€13MCeltic FC
2024-05-30€14MCeltic FC
2024-12-03€14MCeltic FC
2025-06-17€14MCeltic FC
2025-12-10€13MCeltic FC
2026-03-05€10MCeltic FC
2026-05-20€9MCeltic FC

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
+1.025

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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Premiership311 players · median €400k

9th highest observed value among 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€9MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 80% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€9MSee them in the Explorer →

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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).