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Portrait of Oliver Skipp

Oliver

Skipp

DMEngland · Leicester City

№ 406638Established €8M −0.14

Image: FootyLogos

Player dossierPremier League

OliverSkipp

DMDefensive MidfieldMidfield

Club
Leicester City
League
Premier League
Nationality
England
Age
25
Height
175 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
3 Dec 2025

Reading the valuation

The market values Skipp at €7M. Model A, which never saw Skipp during training, estimates €8M: the market value is 13% below 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 €705k, 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.

▼ −0.14A €8M▲ +2.30B €705k
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
40
Minutes
1,800
Goals
0
Assists
0
Started
16/40
Min / app
45
Cards
10Y 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 Skipp…

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 €7M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €7MModel A €8M

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 1,687 midfielders

Oliver Skipp's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 10th, Assists per 90 8th, Minutes, two years 32nd, Starts 12th, Minutes, last 365 days 17th, European club minutes 30th10thGoals8thAssists32ndMinutes12thStarts17thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Minutes, two years

Total club minutes in the two-year window: how much the player was used.

1,800 this player2,607 midfielder median32nd percentile

451peer deciles · median line · this player ●9,624

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
€5M
Jun 2019
Peak
€20M
Dec 2021
Model target
€7M
Dec 2025
Valuations
21
3 club changes
Dec 2025€7MLeicester CityValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Dec 2025: €7M, Leicester City. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2019-06-13€5MTottenham Hotspur
2019-09-12€8MTottenham Hotspur
2019-12-10€8MTottenham Hotspur
2020-04-08€7.2MTottenham Hotspur
2020-10-15€7.2MNorwich City
2021-03-10€8MNorwich City
2021-06-08€10MTottenham Hotspur
2021-10-05€15MTottenham Hotspur
2021-12-23€20MTottenham Hotspur
2022-06-15€18MTottenham Hotspur
2022-09-15€15MTottenham Hotspur
2022-11-03€15MTottenham Hotspur
2023-06-20€15MTottenham Hotspur
2023-12-19€15MTottenham Hotspur
2024-05-27€15MTottenham Hotspur
2024-10-01€18MLeicester City
2024-12-16€14MLeicester City
2025-03-18€12MLeicester City
2025-05-30€10MLeicester City
2025-10-06€8MLeicester City
2025-12-03€7MLeicester City

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
−0.135

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 →

Premier League555 players · median €18M

Valued above 26% of the 555 Premier League players.

€150k€1M€7.5M€50M€7MSee them in the Explorer →

Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M

Valued above 71% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€7MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Skipp 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).