Hidemasa
Morita
CMJapan · Sporting CP
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Player dossierLiga Portugal
HidemasaMorita
CMCentral MidfieldMidfield
- Club
- Sporting CP
- League
- Liga Portugal
- Nationality
- Japan
- Age
- 31
- Height
- 177 cm
- Foot
- Right
- Valued
- 28 May 2026
Liga PortugalReading the valuation
The market values Morita at €8M. Model A, which never saw Morita during training, estimates €7.3M: the market value is 10% above that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.10. 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 €6.3M, 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.
- Apps
- 78
- Minutes
- 4,383
- Goals
- 3
- Assists
- 8
- Started
- 49/78
- Min / app
- 56
- Cards
- 7Y 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 Morita…
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 €8M
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 1,687 midfielders
Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)
European club minutes
Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.
19% this player0% midfielder median83rd 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
- Jan 2018
- Peak
- €15M
- Jun 2024
- Model target
- €8M
- May 2026
- Valuations
- 21
- 2 club changes
May 2026: €8M, Sporting CP. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-05 | €50k | Kawasaki Frontale |
| 2019-01-05 | €1M | Kawasaki Frontale |
| 2019-06-27 | €1.2M | Kawasaki Frontale |
| 2019-12-28 | €1.6M | Kawasaki Frontale |
| 2020-04-08 | €1.3M | Kawasaki Frontale |
| 2021-01-28 | €1.5M | CD Santa Clara |
| 2021-05-21 | €3M | CD Santa Clara |
| 2021-12-27 | €3M | CD Santa Clara |
| 2022-03-10 | €4M | CD Santa Clara |
| 2022-05-31 | €4M | CD Santa Clara |
| 2022-11-01 | €7M | Sporting CP |
| 2023-03-02 | €10M | Sporting CP |
| 2023-06-16 | €12M | Sporting CP |
| 2023-12-27 | €12M | Sporting CP |
| 2024-03-08 | €13M | Sporting CP |
| 2024-06-06 | €15M | Sporting CP |
| 2024-12-19 | €15M | Sporting CP |
| 2025-05-30 | €13M | Sporting CP |
| 2025-09-30 | €11M | Sporting CP |
| 2025-12-18 | €9M | Sporting CP |
| 2026-05-28 | €8M | Sporting CP |
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
- +0.098
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 →Liga Portugal423 players · median €1M
Valued above 84% of the 423 Liga Portugal players.
See them in the Explorer →Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M
Valued above 74% of the 1,687 midfielders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Morita appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- FofanaCMFC Porto · Liga Portugal€8M
- RosarioDMFC Porto · Liga Portugal€8M
- MoffiCFFC Porto · Liga Portugal€8M
- VagiannidisRBSporting CP · Liga Portugal€8M
- BruyneAMSSC Napoli · midfielders€8M
- XhakaDMSunderland AFC · midfielders€8M
- ChristieCMAFC Bournemouth · midfielders€8M
- KarazorDMVfB Stuttgart · midfielders€8M
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).