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Ki-Jana

Hoever

RBNetherlands · Sheffield United

№ 485583Established €3.5M 0.00

Player dossierPremier League

Ki-JanaHoever

RBRight-BackDefender

Club
Sheffield United
League
Premier League
Nationality
Netherlands
Age
24
Height
183 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
28 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Hoever at €3.5M. Model A, which never saw Hoever during training, estimates €3.5M: the market value is level with that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.00. 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 €1.2M, 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.

▲ 0.00A €3.5M▲ +1.09B €1.2M
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
39
Minutes
2,624
Goals
1
Assists
2
Started
33/39
Min / app
67
Cards
4Y 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 Hoever…

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 €3.5M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €3.5MModel A €3.5M

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

Ki-Jana Hoever's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 52nd, Assists per 90 66th, Minutes, two years 45th, Starts 54th, Minutes, last 365 days 11th, European club minutes 30th52ndGoals66thAssists45thMinutes54thStarts11thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.07 this player0.04 defender median66th 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
€4M
Aug 2019
Peak
€7M
Oct 2020
Model target
€3.5M
May 2026
Valuations
16
7 club changes
May 2026€3.5MSheffield UnitedValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €3.5M, Sheffield United. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2019-08-07€4MLiverpool FC U23
2020-04-08€3.6MLiverpool FC U23
2020-10-13€7MWolverhampton Wanderers
2021-03-18€7MWolverhampton Wanderers
2021-06-08€7MWolverhampton Wanderers
2021-12-23€7MWolverhampton Wanderers
2022-06-15€6MWolverhampton Wanderers
2022-09-14€4MPSV Eindhoven
2022-11-11€4MPSV Eindhoven
2023-06-01€3.5MWolverhampton Wanderers
2023-12-21€3.5MStoke City
2024-05-24€4.5MStoke City
2024-12-10€4.5MAJ Auxerre
2025-06-03€5MAJ Auxerre
2025-12-09€5MWolverhampton Wanderers
2026-05-28€3.5MSheffield United

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
+0.002

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 →

Premier League555 players · median €18M

Valued above 15% of the 555 Premier League players.

€150k€1M€7.5M€50M€3.5MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 63% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€3.5MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Hoever 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).