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Lewis

Smith

RMScotland · Livingston FC

№ 446712Emerging €303k +0.50

Player dossierPremiership

LewisSmith

RMRight MidfieldMidfield

Club
Livingston FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Scotland
Age
26
Height
176 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
20 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Smith at €500k. Model A, which never saw Smith during training, estimates €303k: the market value is 65% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.65. 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 €908k, 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.

▲ +0.50A €303k▼ −0.60B €908k
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
31
Minutes
1,708
Goals
7
Assists
1
Started
22/31
Min / app
55
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 Smith…

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 €500k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €500kModel A €303k

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

Lewis Smith's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 97th, Assists per 90 30th, Minutes, two years 29th, Starts 54th, Minutes, last 365 days 55th, European club minutes 30th97thGoals30thAssists29thMinutes54thStarts55thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

Club goals per 90 minutes played in the two years to the valuation date.

0.37 this player0.08 midfielder median97th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.93

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
Aug 2019
Peak
€500k
Jul 2020
Model target
€500k
May 2026
Valuations
18
2 club changes
May 2026€500kLivingston FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €500k, Livingston FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2019-08-17€50kHamilton Academical FC Reserves
2020-02-05€350kHamilton Academical FC
2020-04-08€325kHamilton Academical FC
2020-07-21€500kHamilton Academical FC
2021-01-18€500kHamilton Academical FC
2021-06-28€500kHamilton Academical FC
2021-12-31€450kHamilton Academical FC
2022-05-31€350kHamilton Academical FC
2022-12-13€325kHamilton Academical FC
2023-03-22€275kHamilton Academical FC
2023-06-26€250kHamilton Academical FC
2024-10-04€100kLivingston FC
2024-12-03€125kLivingston FC
2025-06-17€125kLivingston FC
2025-10-08€200kLivingston FC
2025-12-10€200kLivingston FC
2026-03-05€150kLivingston FC
2026-05-20€500kLivingston 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
+0.500

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 55% of the 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€500kSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 16% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€500kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Smith 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).