Facundo
Medina
CBArgentina · Olympique Marseille
Player dossierLigue 1
FacundoMedina
CBCentre-BackDefender
- Club
- Olympique Marseille
- League
- Ligue 1
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Age
- 27
- Height
- 184 cm
- Foot
- Left
- Valued
- 1 Jun 2026
Ligue 1Reading the valuation
The market values Medina at €18M. Model A, which never saw Medina during training, estimates €9.1M: the market value is 98% above that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.98. 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 €5.4M, 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.
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Club matches, two years to the valuation date
The Valuation Journey
What moves Model A
Asking the prediction API to explain Model A for Medina…
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 €18M
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)
Starts
Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.
98% this player83% defender median92nd 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
- €50k
- May 2018
- Peak
- €25M
- Mar 2024
- Model target
- €18M
- Jun 2026
- Valuations
- 23
- 2 club changes
Jun 2026: €18M, Olympique Marseille. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-08 | €50k | CA Talleres |
| 2018-12-18 | €1.3M | CA Talleres |
| 2019-05-23 | €3M | CA Talleres |
| 2019-08-06 | €4.5M | CA Talleres |
| 2019-12-05 | €5M | CA Talleres |
| 2020-04-08 | €4.5M | CA Talleres |
| 2020-10-15 | €8M | RC Lens |
| 2021-04-09 | €10M | RC Lens |
| 2021-06-04 | €10M | RC Lens |
| 2021-12-16 | €10M | RC Lens |
| 2022-05-30 | €11M | RC Lens |
| 2022-09-19 | €13M | RC Lens |
| 2022-11-02 | €15M | RC Lens |
| 2023-03-27 | €16M | RC Lens |
| 2023-06-27 | €22M | RC Lens |
| 2023-12-18 | €22M | RC Lens |
| 2024-03-19 | €25M | RC Lens |
| 2024-06-03 | €25M | RC Lens |
| 2024-12-10 | €25M | RC Lens |
| 2025-06-03 | €25M | RC Lens |
| 2025-12-15 | €20M | Olympique Marseille |
| 2026-03-27 | €18M | Olympique Marseille |
| 2026-06-01 | €18M | Olympique Marseille |
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
- +0.684
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 →Ligue 1423 players · median €5M
Valued above 82% of the 423 Ligue 1 players.
See them in the Explorer →Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M
Valued above 89% of the 2,065 defenders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Medina appears
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- TerminalLigue 1 on the League Landscape
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- GolovinAMAS Monaco · Ligue 1€18M
- HernándezLBParis Saint-Germain · Ligue 1€18M
- GbohoLWFC Toulouse · Ligue 1€18M
- BalerdiCBOlympique Marseille · Ligue 1€18M
- AntonCBBorussia Dortmund · defenders€18M
- AinaRBNottingham Forest · defenders€18M
- MittelstädtLBVfB Stuttgart · defenders€18M
- RodonCBLeeds United · defenders€18M
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).