HamzaMendyl

LBLeft-BackDefender

Club: Aris Thessaloniki
League: Super League
Nationality: Morocco
Age: 28
Height: 179 cm
Foot: Left
Valued: 4 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Mendyl at €800k. Model A, which never saw Mendyl during training, estimates €841k: the market value is 5% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.05. 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 €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.

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: 30
Minutes: 1,802
Goals: 1
Assists: 3
Started: 21/30
Min / app: 60
Cards: 9Y 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 Mendyl…

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 €800k

Checking API

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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)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.15 this player0.04 defender median88th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.58

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: €250k; Nov 2016
Peak: €7M; Dec 2018
Model target: €800k; Jun 2026
Valuations: 25; 7 club changes

Jun 2026€800kAris ThessalonikiValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2026: €800k, Aris Thessaloniki. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table

Date	Market value	Club
2016-11-05	€250k	LOSC Lille B
2017-10-12	€250k	LOSC Lille
2018-01-24	€600k	LOSC Lille
2018-06-04	€600k	LOSC Lille
2018-08-22	€6M	FC Schalke 04
2018-12-18	€7M	FC Schalke 04
2019-06-05	€4M	FC Schalke 04
2019-12-19	€3.5M	Dijon FCO
2020-04-08	€2.8M	Dijon FCO
2021-02-10	€1.8M	FC Schalke 04
2021-06-09	€1M	FC Schalke 04
2021-10-12	€1M	Gaziantep FK
2022-01-04	€1M	Gaziantep FK
2022-03-31	€1M	Gaziantep FK
2022-06-01	€800k	Gaziantep FK
2022-11-04	€800k	Oud-Heverlee Leuven
2023-06-09	€1M	Oud-Heverlee Leuven
2023-10-23	€1.5M	Oud-Heverlee Leuven
2023-12-19	€1.8M	Oud-Heverlee Leuven
2024-03-22	€1.3M	Oud-Heverlee Leuven
2024-06-04	€1.3M	Oud-Heverlee Leuven
2024-12-11	€1M	Oud-Heverlee Leuven
2025-05-23	€1M	Aris Thessaloniki
2025-12-12	€900k	Aris Thessaloniki
2026-06-04	€800k	Aris Thessaloniki

Audit context group-level, not about this player

Audit group: non-UEFA
Population gap, Model A: +0.093 95% CI +0.063 to +0.124
This player, market vs held-out A: −0.050

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

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Super League356 players · median €600k

Valued above 60% of the 356 Super League players.

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Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M

Valued above 29% of the 2,065 defenders.

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Where Mendyl 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).