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Jan

Schöppner

CMGermany · 1.FC Heidenheim 1846

№ 581357Established €4.8M −0.47

Player dossierBundesliga

JanSchöppner

CMCentral MidfieldMidfield

Club
1.FC Heidenheim 1846
League
Bundesliga
Nationality
Germany
Age
26
Height
190 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
27 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Schöppner at €3M. Model A, which never saw Schöppner during training, estimates €4.8M: the market value is 38% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.61. 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 €5.2M, 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.

▼ −0.47A €4.8M▼ −0.56B €5.2M
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
67
Minutes
5,218
Goals
7
Assists
5
Started
64/67
Min / app
78
Cards
14Y 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 Schöppner…

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 €3M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €3MModel A €4.8M

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

Jan Schöppner's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 62nd, Assists per 90 47th, Minutes, two years 89th, Starts 94th, Minutes, last 365 days 78th, European club minutes 61st62ndGoals47thAssists89thMinutes94thStarts78thRecent61stEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Starts

Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.

96% this player69% midfielder median94th percentile

7%peer deciles · median line · this player ●100%

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
€25k
Jul 2018
Peak
€4.5M
Dec 2024
Model target
€3M
May 2026
Valuations
24
1 club change
May 2026€3M1.FC Heidenheim 1846Valuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €3M, 1.FC Heidenheim 1846. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2018-07-15€25kSC Verl
2019-02-05€25kSC Verl
2019-07-15€50kSC Verl
2019-10-01€100kSC Verl
2020-01-21€125kSC Verl
2020-06-22€175kSC Verl
2020-09-10€250k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2021-02-08€250k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2021-03-29€500k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2021-06-16€800k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2021-10-13€900k1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2021-12-15€1.2M1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2022-06-16€1.2M1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2022-11-30€1.2M1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2023-06-28€1.5M1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2023-12-14€1.5M1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2024-03-27€2.5M1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2024-05-29€3M1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2024-10-09€3.5M1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2024-12-20€4.5M1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2025-06-05€4M1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2025-12-19€4M1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2026-03-20€3.5M1.FC Heidenheim 1846
2026-05-27€3M1.FC Heidenheim 1846

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
−0.473

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 31% of the 451 Bundesliga players.

€300k€2M€15M€100M€3MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 56% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€3MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Schöppner 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).