JoedrickPupe

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club: Sint-Truidense VV
League: Pro League
Nationality: Belgium
Age: 29
Height: 190 cm
Foot: Left
Valued: 4 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Pupe at €1.3M. Model A, which never saw Pupe during training, estimates €1.5M: the market value is 13% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.16. 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 €1.8M, 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: 37
Minutes: 2,963
Goals: 1
Assists: 5
Started: 34/37
Min / app: 80
Cards: 10Y 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 Pupe…

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 €1.3M

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 median89th 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: €25k; Jan 2019
Peak: €1.3M; Mar 2025
Model target: €1.3M; Jun 2026
Valuations: 15; 4 club changes

Jun 2026€1.3MSint-Truidense VVValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2026: €1.3M, Sint-Truidense VV. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table

Date	Market value	Club
2019-01-21	€25k	Almere City FC
2019-07-03	€25k	Almere City FC
2020-06-29	€25k	Almere City FC
2022-10-05	€200k	KSK Lierse Kempenzonen
2022-12-22	€300k	KSK Lierse Kempenzonen
2023-05-30	€300k	KSK Lierse Kempenzonen
2023-12-28	€300k	FCV Dender EH
2024-06-20	€450k	FCV Dender EH
2024-10-02	€800k	FCV Dender EH
2024-12-11	€1M	FCV Dender EH
2025-03-26	€1.3M	FCV Dender EH
2025-06-12	€1.2M	FCV Dender EH
2025-09-12	€1M	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
2025-12-11	€1M	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
2026-06-04	€1.3M	Sint-Truidense VV

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: −0.145

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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Pro League350 players · median €1.8M

Valued above 37% of the 350 Pro League players.

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

Valued above 42% of the 2,065 defenders.

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Where Pupe appears

TerminalPro League in the Player Explorer
TerminalPro League on the League Landscape

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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).