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Moritz

Jenz

CBGermany · VfL Wolfsburg

№ 460245Established €6.2M −0.22

Player dossierBundesliga

MoritzJenz

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club
VfL Wolfsburg
League
Bundesliga
Nationality
Germany
Age
27
Height
190 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
27 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Jenz at €5M. Model A, which never saw Jenz during training, estimates €6.2M: the market value is 20% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.25. 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 €2.3M, 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.

▼ −0.22A €6.2M▲ +0.79B €2.3M
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
43
Minutes
3,515
Goals
2
Assists
0
Started
39/43
Min / app
82
Cards
11Y 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 Jenz…

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 €5M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €5MModel A €6.2M

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 2,065 defenders

Moritz Jenz's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 64th, Assists per 90 17th, Minutes, two years 62nd, Starts 71st, Minutes, last 365 days 57th, European club minutes 30th64thGoals17thAssists62ndMinutes71stStarts57thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Starts

Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.

91% this player83% defender median71st percentile

18%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
€400k
Dec 2020
Peak
€7.5M
Jun 2023
Model target
€5M
May 2026
Valuations
14
6 club changes
May 2026€5MVfL WolfsburgValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €5M, VfL Wolfsburg. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2020-12-28€400kFC Lausanne-Sport
2021-06-23€600kFC Lausanne-Sport
2021-10-08€3.5MFC Lorient
2021-12-16€3.5MFC Lorient
2022-05-30€2.5MFC Lorient
2022-12-13€4MCeltic FC
2023-03-29€5.5MFC Schalke 04
2023-06-22€7.5MFC Schalke 04
2023-12-14€7.5MVfL Wolfsburg
2024-05-29€7.5MVfL Wolfsburg
2024-12-20€6M1.FSV Mainz 05
2025-06-05€5M1.FSV Mainz 05
2025-12-19€5MVfL Wolfsburg
2026-05-27€5MVfL Wolfsburg

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
−0.222

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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Bundesliga451 players · median €5M

Valued above 46% of the 451 Bundesliga players.

€300k€2M€15M€100M€5MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 70% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€5MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Jenz 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).