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Jamie

McGrath

AMIreland · Hibernian FC

№ 344107Emerging €603k +0.69

Player dossierPremiership

JamieMcGrath

AMAttacking MidfieldMidfield

Club
Hibernian FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Ireland
Age
29
Height
175 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
20 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values McGrath at €1.2M. Model A, which never saw McGrath during training, estimates €603k: the market value is 99% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.99. 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 €1.2M, 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.

▲ +0.69A €603k▲ +0.01B €1.2M
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
58
Minutes
4,361
Goals
13
Assists
9
Started
51/58
Min / app
75
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 McGrath…

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 €1.2M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €1.2MModel A €603k

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

Jamie McGrath's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 91st, Assists per 90 80th, Minutes, two years 79th, Starts 84th, Minutes, last 365 days 85th, European club minutes 70th91stGoals80thAssists79thMinutes84thStarts85thRecent70thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

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

0.27 this player0.08 midfielder median91st 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
€75k
Feb 2020
Peak
€1.2M
Dec 2024
Model target
€1.2M
May 2026
Valuations
16
5 club changes
May 2026€1.2MHibernian FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €1.2M, Hibernian FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2020-02-05€75kSt. Mirren FC
2020-07-21€150kSt. Mirren FC
2021-01-18€450kSt. Mirren FC
2021-06-28€900kSt. Mirren FC
2021-12-31€900kSt. Mirren FC
2022-06-30€800kWigan Athletic
2022-12-13€600kDundee United FC
2023-03-22€500kDundee United FC
2023-06-09€500kWigan Athletic
2023-12-05€700kAberdeen FC
2024-05-30€900kAberdeen FC
2024-10-02€1MAberdeen FC
2024-12-03€1.2MAberdeen FC
2025-06-17€1.2MAberdeen FC
2025-12-10€1.2MHibernian FC
2026-05-20€1.2MHibernian FC

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
+0.688

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 →

Premiership311 players · median €400k

Valued above 76% of the 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€1.2MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 35% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€1.2MSee them in the Explorer →

Where McGrath 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).