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Portrait of Julian Ryerson

Julian

Ryerson

RBNorway · Borussia Dortmund

№ 370789Elite €23.4M +0.07

Photo: Bryan Berlin / WikiPortraits, CC BY-SA 4.0 (background removed)

Player dossierBundesliga

JulianRyerson

RBRight-BackDefender

Club
Borussia Dortmund
League
Bundesliga
Nationality
Norway
Age
28
Height
183 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
27 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Ryerson at €25M. Model A, which never saw Ryerson during training, estimates €23.4M: the market value is 7% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.07. 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 €28.1M, 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.

▲ +0.07A €23.4M▼ −0.12B €28.1M
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
90
Minutes
6,807
Goals
2
Assists
22
Started
78/90
Min / app
76
Cards
18Y 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 Ryerson…

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 €25M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €25MModel A €23.4M

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

Julian Ryerson's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 45th, Assists per 90 99th, Minutes, two years 97th, Starts 60th, Minutes, last 365 days 95th, European club minutes 95th45thGoals99thAssists97thMinutes60thStarts95thRecent95thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.29 this player0.04 defender median99th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.58

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
€200k
Dec 2016
Peak
€25M
Mar 2026
Model target
€25M
May 2026
Valuations
24
2 club changes
May 2026€25MBorussia DortmundValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €25M, Borussia Dortmund. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2016-12-18€200kViking FK
2017-12-23€400kViking FK
2018-08-21€400k1.FC Union Berlin
2019-01-08€400k1.FC Union Berlin
2019-06-12€500k1.FC Union Berlin
2019-12-17€500k1.FC Union Berlin
2020-04-08€400k1.FC Union Berlin
2020-11-26€800k1.FC Union Berlin
2021-02-10€1M1.FC Union Berlin
2021-06-09€2.5M1.FC Union Berlin
2021-12-22€4M1.FC Union Berlin
2022-06-09€4M1.FC Union Berlin
2022-09-21€5.5M1.FC Union Berlin
2022-11-09€7.5M1.FC Union Berlin
2023-03-29€10MBorussia Dortmund
2023-06-22€13MBorussia Dortmund
2023-10-18€15MBorussia Dortmund
2023-12-14€15MBorussia Dortmund
2024-05-29€20MBorussia Dortmund
2024-12-20€20MBorussia Dortmund
2025-06-05€20MBorussia Dortmund
2025-12-19€20MBorussia Dortmund
2026-03-20€25MBorussia Dortmund
2026-05-27€25MBorussia Dortmund

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
+0.065

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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Bundesliga451 players · median €5M

Valued above 87% of the 451 Bundesliga players.

€300k€2M€15M€100M€25MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 93% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€25MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Ryerson 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).