Sam
Kersten
CBNetherlands · SC Heerenveen
Player dossierEredivisie
SamKersten
CBCentre-BackDefender
- Club
- SC Heerenveen
- League
- Eredivisie
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Age
- 28
- Height
- 191 cm
- Foot
- Right
- Valued
- 28 May 2026
Reading the valuation
The market values Kersten at €2M. Model A, which never saw Kersten during training, estimates €2.2M: the market value is 8% below that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.08. 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 €4.1M, 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.
- Apps
- 67
- Minutes
- 5,258
- Goals
- 2
- Assists
- 1
- Started
- 61/67
- Min / app
- 78
- Cards
- 7Y 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 Kersten…
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 APIAsking 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
Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)
Minutes, two years
Total club minutes in the two-year window: how much the player was used.
5,258 this player2,860 defender median86th percentile
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
- €25k
- Dec 2016
- Peak
- €2M
- May 2026
- Model target
- €2M
- May 2026
- Valuations
- 20
- 2 club changes
May 2026: €2M, SC Heerenveen. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-02 | €25k | FC Den Bosch |
| 2017-06-21 | €50k | FC Den Bosch |
| 2018-03-01 | €125k | FC Den Bosch |
| 2018-06-29 | €200k | FC Den Bosch |
| 2019-01-21 | €300k | FC Den Bosch |
| 2019-07-03 | €500k | FC Den Bosch |
| 2019-12-18 | €500k | PEC Zwolle |
| 2020-04-08 | €450k | PEC Zwolle |
| 2020-10-14 | €800k | PEC Zwolle |
| 2021-05-19 | €800k | PEC Zwolle |
| 2022-01-05 | €650k | PEC Zwolle |
| 2022-06-08 | €650k | PEC Zwolle |
| 2023-07-04 | €500k | PEC Zwolle |
| 2023-12-15 | €700k | PEC Zwolle |
| 2024-03-18 | €800k | PEC Zwolle |
| 2024-05-31 | €800k | PEC Zwolle |
| 2024-12-17 | €800k | SC Heerenveen |
| 2025-05-28 | €1M | SC Heerenveen |
| 2025-12-02 | €1.5M | SC Heerenveen |
| 2026-05-28 | €2M | SC Heerenveen |
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
- −0.079
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 →Eredivisie425 players · median €1M
Valued above 62% of the 425 Eredivisie players.
See them in the Explorer →Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M
Valued above 49% of the 2,065 defenders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Kersten appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- BerghuisRWAjax Amsterdam · Eredivisie€2M
- KlaassenCMAjax Amsterdam · Eredivisie€2M
- OlijGKPSV Eindhoven · Eredivisie€2M
- WeghorstCFAjax Amsterdam · Eredivisie€2M
- HummelsCBAS Roma · defenders€2M
- GünterLBSC Freiburg · defenders€2M
- KohrCB1.FSV Mainz 05 · defenders€2M
- KayembeLBKRC Genk · defenders€2M
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).