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Kevin

Nisbet

CFScotland · Aberdeen FC

№ 360661Emerging €1M +0.13

Player dossierPremiership

KevinNisbet

CFCentre-ForwardAttack

Club
Aberdeen FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Scotland
Age
29
Height
180 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
20 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Nisbet at €1.2M. Model A, which never saw Nisbet during training, estimates €1M: the market value is 14% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.14. 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 €4.3M, 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.

▲ +0.13A €1M▼ −1.28B €4.3M
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
67
Minutes
4,126
Goals
21
Assists
6
Started
47/67
Min / app
62
Cards
7Y 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 Nisbet…

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 €1M

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

Kevin Nisbet's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 84th, Assists per 90 44th, Minutes, two years 82nd, Starts 69th, Minutes, last 365 days 80th, European club minutes 28th84thGoals44thAssists82ndMinutes69thStarts80thRecent28thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

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

0.46 this player0.26 attacker median84th 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
€25k
Nov 2016
Peak
€3M
May 2021
Model target
€1.2M
May 2026
Valuations
20
6 club changes
May 2026€1.2MAberdeen FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

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

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2016-11-03€25kAyr United FC
2017-02-14€50kPartick Thistle FC U20
2018-01-25€100kDumbarton FC
2020-02-05€300kDunfermline Athletic FC
2020-07-21€500kHibernian FC
2021-01-18€1.5MHibernian FC
2021-05-28€3MHibernian FC
2021-12-31€2.5MHibernian FC
2022-06-27€2MHibernian FC
2022-12-13€2MHibernian FC
2023-06-26€2.5MHibernian FC
2023-12-21€2.5MMillwall FC
2024-05-24€2.5MMillwall FC
2024-12-03€2.5MAberdeen FC
2025-03-12€2.3MAberdeen FC
2025-06-17€2.5MAberdeen FC
2025-10-08€2MAberdeen FC
2025-12-10€1.5MAberdeen FC
2026-03-05€1.2MAberdeen FC
2026-05-20€1.2MAberdeen 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
+0.134

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 →

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

Valued above 34% of the 1,583 attackers.

€20k€300k€5M€75M€1.2MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Nisbet 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).