James
McAtee
AMEngland · Nottingham Forest
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Player dossierPremier League
JamesMcAtee
AMAttacking MidfieldMidfield
- Club
- Nottingham Forest
- League
- Premier League
- Nationality
- England
- Age
- 23
- Height
- 180 cm
- Foot
- Left
- Valued
- 3 Jun 2026
Reading the valuation
The market values McAtee at €18M. Model A, which never saw McAtee during training, estimates €15.5M: the market value is 16% above that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.16. 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 €10.7M, 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.
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Club matches, two years to the valuation date
The Valuation Journey
What moves Model A
Asking the prediction API to explain Model A for McAtee…
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 €18M
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.
40% this player0% midfielder median99th 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
- €500k
- Oct 2021
- Peak
- €25M
- Oct 2025
- Model target
- €18M
- Jun 2026
- Valuations
- 15
- 5 club changes
Jun 2026: €18M, Nottingham Forest. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-05 | €500k | Manchester City U23 |
| 2022-03-29 | €3M | Manchester City U23 |
| 2022-09-14 | €4M | Sheffield United |
| 2022-10-27 | €5M | Sheffield United |
| 2023-03-24 | €6M | Sheffield United |
| 2023-06-01 | €12M | Manchester City U21 |
| 2023-12-19 | €12M | Sheffield United |
| 2024-05-27 | €12M | Sheffield United |
| 2024-12-16 | €14M | Manchester City |
| 2025-03-18 | €18M | Manchester City |
| 2025-05-30 | €20M | Manchester City |
| 2025-10-17 | €25M | Nottingham Forest |
| 2025-12-09 | €23M | Nottingham Forest |
| 2026-03-09 | €20M | Nottingham Forest |
| 2026-06-03 | €18M | Nottingham Forest |
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
- +0.148
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 →Premier League555 players · median €18M
Valued above 50% of the 555 Premier League players.
See them in the Explorer →Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M
Valued above 87% of the 1,687 midfielders.
See them in the Explorer →Where McAtee appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- TrossardLWArsenal FC · Premier League€18M
- AinaRBNottingham Forest · Premier League€18M
- VicarioGKTottenham Hotspur · Premier League€18M
- RodonCBLeeds United · Premier League€18M
- RabiotCMAC Milan · midfielders€18M
- GolovinAMAS Monaco · midfielders€18M
- BarreiroCMSL Benfica · midfielders€18M
- O'RileyCMBrighton & Hove Albion · midfielders€18M
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).