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Portrait of Oliver Baumann

Oliver

Baumann

GKGermany · TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

№ 55089Established €2.3M +0.08

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Player dossierBundesliga

OliverBaumann

GKGoalkeeperGoalkeeper

Club
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
League
Bundesliga
Nationality
Germany
Age
35
Height
187 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
27 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Baumann at €2.5M. Model A, which never saw Baumann during training, estimates €2.3M: the market value is 8% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.08. 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 €1.7M, 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.

▲ +0.08A €2.3M▲ +0.38B €1.7M
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
73
Minutes
6,600
Started
73/73
Min / app
90
Cards
5Y 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 Baumann…

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 €2.5M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €2.5MModel A €2.3M

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 485 goalkeepers

Oliver Baumann's percentiles among goalkeepers: Minutes, two years 90th, Starts 62nd, Minutes, last 365 days 87th, European club minutes 73rd90thMinutes62ndStarts87thRecent73rdEurope

Dashed ring: the goalkeeper median (50th percentile)

Minutes, two years

Total club minutes in the two-year window: how much the player was used.

6,600 this player2,790 goalkeeper median90th percentile

450peer deciles · median line · this player ●9,210

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
Aug 2008
Peak
€10M
Jun 2018
Model target
€2.5M
May 2026
Valuations
38
2 club changes
May 2026€2.5MTSG 1899 HoffenheimValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €2.5M, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2008-08-19€50kSC Freiburg U19
2009-06-18€100kSC Freiburg U19
2009-11-09€200kSC Freiburg
2010-06-13€400kSC Freiburg
2010-09-28€750kSC Freiburg
2010-11-23€1MSC Freiburg
2011-01-12€2MSC Freiburg
2011-03-18€3MSC Freiburg
2011-06-29€4MSC Freiburg
2012-01-23€4MSC Freiburg
2012-06-29€5MSC Freiburg
2013-01-13€5MSC Freiburg
2013-06-30€7MSC Freiburg
2014-07-10€8MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2015-02-04€8MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2015-07-01€5.5MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2016-02-15€5.5MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2016-07-22€5.5MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2017-02-07€5.5MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2017-06-19€7MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2017-12-28€8MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2018-06-05€10MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2018-12-18€10MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2019-06-05€8MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2019-12-17€7MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2020-04-08€5.5MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2021-02-10€5.5MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2021-06-09€5MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2021-12-22€5MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2022-06-09€4.5MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2022-11-09€4.5MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2023-06-22€4MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2023-12-14€4MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2024-05-29€3MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2024-12-20€3MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2025-06-05€3MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2025-12-19€3MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2026-05-27€2.5MTSG 1899 Hoffenheim

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
+0.078

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 25% of the 451 Bundesliga players.

€300k€2M€15M€100M€2.5MSee them in the Explorer →

Goalkeepers, all leagues485 players · median €1M

Valued above 64% of the 485 goalkeepers.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€2.5MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Baumann 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).