Rick van
Drongelen
CBNetherlands · Samsunspor
Player dossierSüper Lig
Rick vanDrongelen
CBCentre-BackDefender
- Club
- Samsunspor
- League
- Süper Lig
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Age
- 27
- Height
- 188 cm
- Foot
- Left
- Valued
- 21 May 2026
Süper LigReading the valuation
The market values Drongelen at €6M. Model A, which never saw Drongelen during training, estimates €3.8M: the market value is 56% above that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.56. 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 €5M, 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.
- Apps
- 67
- Minutes
- 5,947
- Goals
- 5
- Assists
- 2
- Started
- 66/67
- Min / app
- 89
- Cards
- 17Y 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 Drongelen…
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 €6M
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 2,065 defenders
Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)
Starts
Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.
99% this player83% defender median93rd 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
- €50k
- Nov 2015
- Peak
- €8M
- Dec 2019
- Model target
- €6M
- May 2026
- Valuations
- 33
- 6 club changes
May 2026: €6M, Samsunspor. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-11-01 | €50k | Sparta Rotterdam U21 |
| 2016-02-05 | €50k | Sparta Rotterdam |
| 2016-07-15 | €250k | Sparta Rotterdam |
| 2017-01-18 | €750k | Sparta Rotterdam |
| 2017-06-07 | €900k | Sparta Rotterdam |
| 2017-10-18 | €2.5M | Hamburger SV |
| 2017-12-28 | €3M | Hamburger SV |
| 2018-06-05 | €3M | Hamburger SV |
| 2019-01-08 | €4.5M | Hamburger SV |
| 2019-06-12 | €4.5M | Hamburger SV |
| 2019-12-13 | €8M | Hamburger SV |
| 2020-04-08 | €7.2M | Hamburger SV |
| 2020-07-15 | €5M | Hamburger SV |
| 2021-02-08 | €4M | Hamburger SV |
| 2021-06-16 | €2.5M | Hamburger SV |
| 2021-10-07 | €1.5M | 1.FC Union Berlin |
| 2021-12-22 | €1.5M | 1.FC Union Berlin |
| 2022-04-12 | €1.5M | KV Mechelen |
| 2022-09-28 | €1M | FC Hansa Rostock |
| 2022-11-30 | €1M | FC Hansa Rostock |
| 2023-03-31 | €800k | FC Hansa Rostock |
| 2023-06-28 | €1M | FC Hansa Rostock |
| 2023-09-27 | €800k | Samsunspor |
| 2023-12-21 | €750k | Samsunspor |
| 2024-03-15 | €1M | Samsunspor |
| 2024-05-31 | €1.4M | Samsunspor |
| 2024-10-04 | €1.7M | Samsunspor |
| 2024-12-23 | €2M | Samsunspor |
| 2025-03-20 | €2.3M | Samsunspor |
| 2025-06-18 | €2.7M | Samsunspor |
| 2025-10-01 | €2.8M | Samsunspor |
| 2025-12-17 | €4M | Samsunspor |
| 2026-05-21 | €6M | Samsunspor |
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
- +0.445
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 →Süper Lig428 players · median €1.2M
Valued above 84% of the 428 Süper Lig players.
See them in the Explorer →Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M
Valued above 73% of the 2,065 defenders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Drongelen appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- SemedoRBFenerbahce · Süper Lig€6M
- OnuachuCFTrabzonspor · Süper Lig€6M
- ZubkovRWTrabzonspor · Süper Lig€6M
- KozlowskiAMGaziantep FK · Süper Lig€6M
- RüdigerCBReal Madrid · defenders€6M
- DigneLBAston Villa · defenders€6M
- RomagnoliCBSS Lazio · defenders€6M
- PoschCB1.FSV Mainz 05 · defenders€6M
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).