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Marcelo

Saracchi

LBUruguay · Celtic FC

№ 373916Established €749k +0.98

Player dossierPremiership

MarceloSaracchi

LBLeft-BackDefender

Club
Celtic FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Uruguay
Age
28
Height
172 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
20 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Saracchi at €2M. Model A, which never saw Saracchi during training, estimates €749k: the market value is 167% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×2.67. 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 €968k, 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.

▲ +0.98A €749k▲ +0.73B €968k
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
21
Minutes
832
Goals
1
Assists
2
Started
9/21
Min / app
40
Cards
2Y 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 Saracchi…

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 €2M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €2MModel A €749k

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

Marcelo Saracchi's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 89th, Assists per 90 97th, Minutes, two years 8th, Starts 4th, Minutes, last 365 days 23rd, European club minutes 83rd89thGoals97thAssists8thMinutes4thStarts23rdRecent83rdEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.22 this player0.04 defender median97th 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
€75k
May 2015
Peak
€14M
Dec 2018
Model target
€2M
May 2026
Valuations
29
8 club changes
May 2026€2MCeltic FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

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

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2015-05-26€75kUnknown
2015-08-14€200kDanubio FC
2016-02-25€400kDanubio FC
2016-09-09€450kDanubio FC
2017-02-22€750kDanubio FC
2017-10-09€1.8MCA River Plate
2018-05-08€4.5MCA River Plate
2018-08-22€12MRB Leipzig
2018-12-18€14MRB Leipzig
2019-06-05€10MRB Leipzig
2019-12-17€10MRB Leipzig
2020-04-08€9MGalatasaray
2020-08-04€8MGalatasaray
2020-10-12€6.5MGalatasaray
2020-12-23€6MGalatasaray
2021-03-16€6MGalatasaray
2021-05-21€5.5MGalatasaray
2021-12-22€4.5MRB Leipzig
2022-03-21€3.5MLevante UD
2022-06-03€2.5MLevante UD
2022-12-29€2MLevante UD
2023-06-14€1.5MLevante UD
2023-12-19€1.5MCA Boca Juniors
2024-06-12€1.3MCA Boca Juniors
2024-12-13€1.8MCA Boca Juniors
2025-06-02€1.5MCA Boca Juniors
2025-12-10€1.5MCeltic FC
2026-03-05€2MCeltic FC
2026-05-20€2MCeltic FC

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
+0.982

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 82% of the 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€2MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 49% of the 2,065 defenders.

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

Where Saracchi 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).