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Léo

Santos

CBBrazil · CD Nacional

№ 351894Emerging €1.3M −0.30

Player dossierLiga Portugal

LéoSantos

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club
CD Nacional
League
Liga Portugal
Nationality
Brazil
Age
27
Height
186 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
28 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Santos at €1M. Model A, which never saw Santos during training, estimates €1.3M: the market value is 26% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.34. 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 €2.7M, 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.

▼ −0.30A €1.3M▼ −1.00B €2.7M
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
47
Minutes
3,489
Goals
4
Assists
2
Started
38/47
Min / app
74
Cards
15Y 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 Santos…

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 €1M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €1MModel A €1.3M

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

Léo Santos's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 88th, Assists per 90 58th, Minutes, two years 62nd, Starts 47th, Minutes, last 365 days 82nd, European club minutes 30th88thGoals58thAssists62ndMinutes47thStarts82ndRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

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

0.10 this player0.03 defender median88th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.41

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
€100k
Nov 2016
Peak
€6M
Feb 2019
Model target
€1M
May 2026
Valuations
19
5 club changes
May 2026€1MCD NacionalValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €1M, CD Nacional. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2016-11-28€100kUnknown
2017-12-07€100kSport Club Corinthians Paulista
2018-05-23€100kSport Club Corinthians Paulista
2019-02-18€6MSport Club Corinthians Paulista
2019-11-27€6MSport Club Corinthians Paulista
2020-04-08€5.4MSport Club Corinthians Paulista
2020-09-09€3.5MSport Club Corinthians Paulista
2021-02-09€2.5MSport Club Corinthians Paulista
2021-05-28€2MSport Club Corinthians Paulista
2021-12-17€1.5MSport Club Corinthians Paulista
2022-08-05€1.2MAssociação Atlética Ponte Preta
2023-07-18€1.2MCeará Sporting Club
2023-11-27€1.2MCeará Sporting Club
2024-04-18€900kGuarani Futebol Clube (SP)
2024-10-08€900kCD Nacional
2024-12-19€600kCD Nacional
2025-05-30€600kCD Nacional
2025-12-18€1MCD Nacional
2026-05-28€1MCD Nacional

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
−0.296

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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Liga Portugal423 players · median €1M

Valued above 42% of the 423 Liga Portugal players.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€1MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 35% of the 2,065 defenders.

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Where Santos 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).