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Ansgar

Knauff

RWGermany · Eintracht Frankfurt

№ 429874Elite €17.8M −0.17

Player dossierBundesliga

AnsgarKnauff

RWRight WingerAttack

Club
Eintracht Frankfurt
League
Bundesliga
Nationality
Germany
Age
24
Height
180 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
27 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Knauff at €15M. Model A, which never saw Knauff during training, estimates €17.8M: the market value is 16% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.19. 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 €20.9M, 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.

▼ −0.17A €17.8M▼ −0.33B €20.9M
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
82
Minutes
4,287
Goals
13
Assists
12
Started
45/82
Min / app
52
Cards
8Y 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 Knauff…

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 €15M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €15MModel A €17.8M

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 1,583 attackers

Ansgar Knauff's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 52nd, Assists per 90 83rd, Minutes, two years 84th, Starts 43rd, Minutes, last 365 days 74th, European club minutes 93rd52ndGoals83rdAssists84thMinutes43rdStarts74thRecent93rdEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

European club minutes

Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.

28% this player0% attacker median93rd percentile

0%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
€150k
Sept 2020
Peak
€15M
Jun 2025
Model target
€15M
May 2026
Valuations
16
2 club changes
May 2026€15MEintracht FrankfurtValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €15M, Eintracht Frankfurt. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2020-09-15€150kBorussia Dortmund II
2021-01-05€500kBorussia Dortmund II
2021-02-10€800kBorussia Dortmund II
2021-06-09€3MBorussia Dortmund II
2021-12-22€3MBorussia Dortmund
2022-03-24€5MEintracht Frankfurt
2022-06-09€10MEintracht Frankfurt
2022-11-09€10MEintracht Frankfurt
2023-06-22€8MEintracht Frankfurt
2023-12-14€8MEintracht Frankfurt
2024-03-27€10MEintracht Frankfurt
2024-05-29€10MEintracht Frankfurt
2024-12-20€10MEintracht Frankfurt
2025-06-05€15MEintracht Frankfurt
2025-12-19€15MEintracht Frankfurt
2026-05-27€15MEintracht Frankfurt

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
−0.173

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 →

Bundesliga451 players · median €5M

Valued above 74% of the 451 Bundesliga players.

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

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

Valued above 81% of the 1,583 attackers.

€20k€300k€5M€75M€15MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Knauff 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).