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Thibo

Baeten

CFBelgium · Go Ahead Eagles

№ 486043Emerging €750k −0.41

Player dossierEredivisie

ThiboBaeten

CFCentre-ForwardAttack

Club
Go Ahead Eagles
League
Eredivisie
Nationality
Belgium
Age
23
Height
185 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
28 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Baeten at €500k. Model A, which never saw Baeten during training, estimates €750k: the market value is 33% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.50. 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 €1.9M, 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.

▼ −0.41A €750k▼ −1.33B €1.9M
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
27
Minutes
1,014
Goals
1
Assists
3
Started
6/27
Min / app
38
Cards
2Y 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 Baeten…

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 €500k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €500kModel A €750k

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 1,583 attackers

Thibo Baeten's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 12th, Assists per 90 86th, Minutes, two years 19th, Starts 5th, Minutes, last 365 days 34th, European club minutes 60th12thGoals86thAssists19thMinutes5thStarts34thRecent60thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.27 this player0.15 attacker median86th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.73

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
Oct 2020
Peak
€1M
May 2023
Model target
€500k
May 2026
Valuations
13
5 club changes
May 2026€500kGo Ahead EaglesValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €500k, Go Ahead Eagles. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2020-10-21€400kClub NXT
2022-06-23€250kTorino Primavera
2022-10-05€500kBeerschot VA
2022-12-22€800kBeerschot VA
2023-05-30€1MBeerschot VA
2023-10-17€800kGo Ahead Eagles
2023-12-15€600kGo Ahead Eagles
2024-05-31€600kGo Ahead Eagles
2024-12-10€500kRoda JC Kerkrade
2025-06-09€400kRoda JC Kerkrade
2025-12-02€350kGo Ahead Eagles
2026-03-11€500kGo Ahead Eagles
2026-05-28€500kGo Ahead Eagles

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
−0.406

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 →

Eredivisie425 players · median €1M

Valued above 25% of the 425 Eredivisie players.

€75k€500k€3M€20M€500kSee them in the Explorer →

Attackers, all leagues1,583 players · median €2.5M

Valued above 15% of the 1,583 attackers.

€20k€300k€5M€75M€500kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Baeten 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).