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Andy

Halliday

DMScotland · Motherwell FC

№ 59543Emerging €90k −0.59

Player dossierPremiership

AndyHalliday

DMDefensive MidfieldMidfield

Club
Motherwell FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Scotland
Age
34
Height
181 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
20 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Halliday at €50k. Model A, which never saw Halliday during training, estimates €90k: the market value is 45% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.81. 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 €252k, 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.

▼ −0.59A €90k▼ −1.62B €252k
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
36
Minutes
2,313
Goals
3
Assists
2
Started
31/36
Min / app
64
Cards
6Y 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 Halliday…

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 €50k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €50kModel A €90k

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

Andy Halliday's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 61st, Assists per 90 43rd, Minutes, two years 44th, Starts 80th, Minutes, last 365 days 2nd, European club minutes 30th61stGoals43rdAssists44thMinutes80thStarts2ndRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Starts

Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.

86% this player69% midfielder median80th 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
€75k
Jan 2009
Peak
€750k
Jan 2019
Model target
€50k
May 2026
Valuations
27
5 club changes
May 2026€50kMotherwell FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €50k, Motherwell FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2009-01-06€75kLivingston FC
2009-11-20€150kLivingston FC
2010-10-24€500kMiddlesbrough FC
2012-06-22€250kMiddlesbrough FC
2013-03-02€250kMiddlesbrough FC
2013-07-12€500kMiddlesbrough FC
2014-01-08€350kMiddlesbrough FC
2015-02-27€350kBradford City
2015-11-16€350kRangers FC
2017-02-14€500kRangers FC
2018-03-04€350kRangers FC
2018-08-08€350kRangers FC
2019-01-03€750kRangers FC
2020-02-05€500kRangers FC
2020-04-08€400kRangers FC
2021-01-18€400kHeart of Midlothian FC
2021-06-03€400kHeart of Midlothian FC
2021-12-31€375kHeart of Midlothian FC
2022-06-27€550kHeart of Midlothian FC
2022-12-13€550kHeart of Midlothian FC
2023-06-26€500kHeart of Midlothian FC
2023-12-05€300kHeart of Midlothian FC
2024-05-30€250kMotherwell FC
2024-12-03€200kMotherwell FC
2025-06-17€200kMotherwell FC
2025-12-10€150kMotherwell FC
2026-05-20€50kMotherwell 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
−0.593

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 2% of the 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€50kSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 0% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€50kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Halliday 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).