Niklas
Beste
RWGermany · SC Freiburg
Player dossierBundesliga
NiklasBeste
RWRight WingerAttack
- Club
- SC Freiburg
- League
- Bundesliga
- Nationality
- Germany
- Age
- 27
- Height
- 175 cm
- Foot
- Left
- Valued
- 27 May 2026
Reading the valuation
The market values Beste at €10M. Model A, which never saw Beste during training, estimates €13.8M: the market value is 27% below that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.38. 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 €16.5M, 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.
- Apps
- 79
- Minutes
- 3,993
- Goals
- 3
- Assists
- 10
- Started
- 43/79
- Min / app
- 51
- Cards
- 9Y 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 Beste…
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 €10M
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 1,583 attackers
Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)
Minutes, last 365 days
Club minutes in the final year of the window: recent involvement, or the absence of it.
3,113 this player1,301 attacker median96th 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
- €500k
- Jul 2018
- Peak
- €15M
- Mar 2024
- Model target
- €10M
- May 2026
- Valuations
- 22
- 5 club changes
May 2026: €10M, SC Freiburg. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-15 | €500k | SV Werder Bremen |
| 2018-12-18 | €500k | SV Werder Bremen |
| 2019-06-05 | €500k | SV Werder Bremen |
| 2019-12-18 | €400k | FC Emmen |
| 2020-04-08 | €350k | FC Emmen |
| 2021-02-08 | €350k | SSV Jahn Regensburg |
| 2021-06-16 | €350k | SSV Jahn Regensburg |
| 2021-10-13 | €700k | SSV Jahn Regensburg |
| 2021-12-15 | €1.2M | SSV Jahn Regensburg |
| 2022-06-16 | €1.2M | SSV Jahn Regensburg |
| 2022-11-30 | €1.5M | 1.FC Heidenheim 1846 |
| 2023-03-31 | €2M | 1.FC Heidenheim 1846 |
| 2023-06-28 | €3M | 1.FC Heidenheim 1846 |
| 2023-10-18 | €7M | 1.FC Heidenheim 1846 |
| 2023-12-14 | €12M | 1.FC Heidenheim 1846 |
| 2024-03-27 | €15M | 1.FC Heidenheim 1846 |
| 2024-05-29 | €15M | 1.FC Heidenheim 1846 |
| 2024-12-19 | €14M | SL Benfica |
| 2025-03-27 | €10M | SC Freiburg |
| 2025-06-05 | €7M | SC Freiburg |
| 2025-12-19 | €7M | SC Freiburg |
| 2026-05-27 | €10M | SC Freiburg |
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
- −0.319
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 →Bundesliga451 players · median €5M
Valued above 65% of the 451 Bundesliga players.
See them in the Explorer →Attackers, all leagues1,583 players · median €2.5M
Valued above 77% of the 1,583 attackers.
See them in the Explorer →Where Beste appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- FriedlCBSV Werder Bremen · Bundesliga€10M
- EggesteinCMSC Freiburg · Bundesliga€10M
- SchlagerCMRB Leipzig · Bundesliga€10M
- LienhartCBSC Freiburg · Bundesliga€10M
- MinaminoLWAS Monaco · attackers€10M
- CórdobaCFFC Krasnodar · attackers€10M
- Saint-MaximinLWRC Lens · attackers€10M
- NmechaCFLeeds United · attackers€10M
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).