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Connor

Smith

AMScotland · Hamilton Academical FC

№ 509246Emerging €184k −0.39

Player dossierPremiership

ConnorSmith

AMAttacking MidfieldMidfield

Club
Hamilton Academical FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Scotland
Age
23
Height
176 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
17 Jun 2025

Reading the valuation

The market values Smith at €125k. Model A, which never saw Smith during training, estimates €184k: the market value is 32% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.47. 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 €645k, 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.

▼ −0.39A €184k▼ −1.64B €645k
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
11
Minutes
611
Goals
1
Assists
2
Started
6/11
Min / app
56
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 Smith…

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 €125k

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EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €125kModel A €184k

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 1,687 midfielders

Connor Smith's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 71st, Assists per 90 95th, Minutes, two years 4th, Starts 27th, Minutes, last 365 days 7th, European club minutes 30th71stGoals95thAssists4thMinutes27thStarts7thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.29 this player0.09 midfielder median95th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.74

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
€75k
Sept 2022
Peak
€175k
Dec 2024
Model target
€125k
Jun 2025
Valuations
6
2 club changes
Jun 2025€125kHamilton Academical FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2025: €125k, Hamilton Academical FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

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DateMarket valueClub
2022-09-06€75kHeart of Midlothian FC
2022-12-13€150kHeart of Midlothian FC
2023-06-26€150kHeart of Midlothian FC
2024-05-30€150kSt. Johnstone FC
2024-12-03€175kHamilton Academical FC
2025-06-17€125kHamilton Academical FC

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
−0.387

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 →

Premiership311 players · median €400k

Valued above 17% of the 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€125kSee them in the Explorer →

Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M

Valued above 2% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€125kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Smith 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).