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Ross

Sinclair

GKScotland · St. Johnstone FC

№ 412741Emerging €232k −0.84

Player dossierPremiership

RossSinclair

GKGoalkeeperGoalkeeper

Club
St. Johnstone FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Scotland
Age
24
Height
197 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
10 Dec 2025

Reading the valuation

The market values Sinclair at €100k. Model A, which never saw Sinclair during training, estimates €232k: the market value is 57% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×2.32. 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 €944k, 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.

▼ −0.84A €232k▼ −2.25B €944k
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
10
Minutes
855
Started
10/10
Min / app
86
Cards
0Y 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 Sinclair…

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 €100k

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EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €100kModel A €232k

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 485 goalkeepers

Ross Sinclair's percentiles among goalkeepers: Minutes, two years 13th, Starts 62nd, Minutes, last 365 days 6th, European club minutes 32nd13thMinutes62ndStarts6thRecent32ndEurope

Dashed ring: the goalkeeper median (50th percentile)

Starts

Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.

100% this player100% goalkeeper median62nd percentile

70%peer deciles · median line · this player ●100%

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
Jun 2021
Peak
€100k
Dec 2024
Model target
€100k
Dec 2025
Valuations
9
0 club changes
Dec 2025€100kSt. Johnstone FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Dec 2025: €100k, St. Johnstone FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

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DateMarket valueClub
2021-06-28€50kSt. Johnstone FC
2021-12-31€50kSt. Johnstone FC
2022-06-27€50kSt. Johnstone FC
2023-06-26€50kSt. Johnstone FC
2023-12-05€50kSt. Johnstone FC
2024-05-30€50kSt. Johnstone FC
2024-12-03€100kSt. Johnstone FC
2025-06-17€100kSt. Johnstone FC
2025-12-10€100kSt. Johnstone 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
−0.840

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 7% of the 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€100kSee them in the Explorer →

Goalkeepers, all leagues485 players · median €1M

Valued above 3% of the 485 goalkeepers.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€100kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Sinclair 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).