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Connor

McLennan

RWScotland · Livingston FC

№ 344584Emerging €213k −0.76

Player dossierPremiership

ConnorMcLennan

RWRight WingerAttack

Club
Livingston FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Scotland
Age
26
Height
181 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
20 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values McLennan at €100k. Model A, which never saw McLennan during training, estimates €213k: the market value is 53% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×2.13. 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 €580k, 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.

▼ −0.76A €213k▼ −1.76B €580k
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
17
Minutes
850
Goals
3
Assists
0
Started
9/17
Min / app
50
Cards
6Y 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 McLennan…

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 €100k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €100kModel A €213k

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 1,583 attackers

Connor McLennan's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 60th, Assists per 90 6th, Minutes, two years 14th, Starts 40th, Minutes, last 365 days 31st, European club minutes 28th60thGoals6thAssists14thMinutes40thStarts31stRecent28thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

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

0.32 this player0.26 attacker median60th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●1.17

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
€150k
Jan 2019
Peak
€500k
Jul 2020
Model target
€100k
May 2026
Valuations
18
5 club changes
May 2026€100kLivingston FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €100k, Livingston FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2019-01-03€150kAberdeen FC
2019-08-20€350kAberdeen FC
2020-02-05€350kAberdeen FC
2020-04-08€325kAberdeen FC
2020-07-21€500kAberdeen FC
2021-01-18€450kAberdeen FC
2021-06-28€375kAberdeen FC
2021-12-31€375kAberdeen FC
2022-06-27€375kAberdeen FC
2022-12-13€375kSt. Johnstone FC
2023-06-26€375kAberdeen FC
2023-12-29€325kSalford City
2024-06-27€250kSalford City
2024-10-16€200kAyr United FC
2024-12-03€200kAyr United FC
2025-06-17€200kAyr United FC
2025-12-10€150kLivingston FC
2026-05-20€100kLivingston 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
−0.755

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 7% of the 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€100kSee them in the Explorer →

Attackers, all leagues1,583 players · median €2.5M

Valued above 1% of the 1,583 attackers.

€20k€300k€5M€75M€100kSee 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).