Min-jae
Kim
CBKorea, South · Bayern Munich
Player dossierBundesliga
Min-jaeKim
CBCentre-BackDefender
- Club
- Bayern Munich
- League
- Bundesliga
- Nationality
- Korea, South
- Age
- 29
- Height
- 190 cm
- Foot
- Right
- Valued
- 27 May 2026
BundesligaReading the valuation
The market values Kim at €20M. Model A, which never saw Kim during training, estimates €26.2M: the market value is 24% below that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.31. 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 €15.8M, closer to the market here, although it is usually further off (typical miss ×2.07).
A gap describes the model's arithmetic for this player's inputs, not what the player is worth.
- Apps
- 80
- Minutes
- 5,644
- Goals
- 4
- Assists
- 1
- Started
- 66/80
- Min / app
- 71
- Cards
- 6Y 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 Kim…
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 €20M
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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)
European club minutes
Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.
25% this player0% defender median90th 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
- €1.2M
- Dec 2017
- Peak
- €60M
- Jun 2023
- Model target
- €20M
- May 2026
- Valuations
- 23
- 4 club changes
May 2026: €20M, Bayern Munich. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-15 | €1.2M | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors |
| 2019-03-21 | €1M | Beijing Guoan |
| 2019-09-05 | €1M | Beijing Guoan |
| 2019-12-27 | €1M | Beijing Guoan |
| 2020-04-08 | €800k | Beijing Guoan |
| 2020-08-01 | €1.5M | Beijing Guoan |
| 2020-12-26 | €2M | Beijing Guoan |
| 2021-10-12 | €6.5M | Fenerbahce |
| 2022-01-04 | €9M | Fenerbahce |
| 2022-03-31 | €11M | Fenerbahce |
| 2022-06-01 | €14M | Fenerbahce |
| 2022-09-27 | €25M | SSC Napoli |
| 2022-11-11 | €35M | SSC Napoli |
| 2023-03-21 | €50M | SSC Napoli |
| 2023-06-15 | €60M | SSC Napoli |
| 2023-12-14 | €60M | Bayern Munich |
| 2024-03-27 | €55M | Bayern Munich |
| 2024-05-29 | €45M | Bayern Munich |
| 2024-12-20 | €45M | Bayern Munich |
| 2025-06-05 | €40M | Bayern Munich |
| 2025-10-14 | €32M | Bayern Munich |
| 2025-12-19 | €25M | Bayern Munich |
| 2026-05-27 | €20M | Bayern Munich |
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
- −0.269
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 →Bundesliga451 players · median €5M
Valued above 82% of the 451 Bundesliga players.
See them in the Explorer →Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M
Valued above 91% of the 2,065 defenders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Kim appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- GrimaldoLBBayer 04 Leverkusen · Bundesliga€20M
- GarcíaCMBayer 04 Leverkusen · Bundesliga€20M
- BurgerDMTSG 1899 Hoffenheim · Bundesliga€20M
- ReitzCMBorussia Mönchengladbach · Bundesliga€20M
- AndersenCBFulham FC · defenders€20M
- DansoCBTottenham Hotspur · defenders€20M
- LlorenteRBAtlético de Madrid · defenders€20M
- SarrCBRC Lens · defenders€20M
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).