Taras
Stepanenko
DMUkraine · Kolos Kovalivka
Player dossierPremier Liha
TarasStepanenko
DMDefensive MidfieldMidfield
- Club
- Kolos Kovalivka
- League
- Premier Liha
- Nationality
- Ukraine
- Age
- 36
- Height
- 181 cm
- Foot
- Left
- Valued
- 2 Jun 2026
Reading the valuation
The market values Stepanenko at €500k. Model A, which never saw Stepanenko during training, estimates €201k: the market value is 149% above that estimate.
That is a factor of ×2.49. 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 €347k, closer to the market here, although it is usually further off (typical miss ×2.07).
A gap describes the model's arithmetic for this player's inputs, not what the player is worth.
- Apps
- 36
- Minutes
- 1,538
- Goals
- 1
- Assists
- 0
- Started
- 16/36
- Min / app
- 43
- 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 Stepanenko…
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 €500k
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.
8% this player0% midfielder median69th 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
- €800k
- Dec 2007
- Peak
- €10M
- Aug 2018
- Model target
- €500k
- Jun 2026
- Valuations
- 39
- 3 club changes
Jun 2026: €500k, Kolos Kovalivka. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2007-12-11 | €800k | Metalurg Zaporizhya |
| 2008-10-09 | €1M | Metalurg Zaporizhya |
| 2008-12-02 | €2M | Metalurg Zaporizhya |
| 2009-03-18 | €2M | Metalurg Zaporizhya |
| 2009-09-21 | €2M | Metalurg Zaporizhya |
| 2010-02-17 | €1.6M | Metalurg Zaporizhya |
| 2010-08-28 | €2.5M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2011-01-02 | €3.5M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2012-01-05 | €3M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2014-01-02 | €4.5M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2014-06-30 | €4.5M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2014-12-25 | €5.5M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2015-06-07 | €8M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2015-12-18 | €8M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2016-06-01 | €8M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2016-07-21 | €8M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2017-01-03 | €8M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2017-06-26 | €8.5M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2018-01-12 | €9M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2018-08-06 | €10M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2018-12-10 | €10M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2019-06-20 | €10M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2020-01-08 | €10M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2020-04-08 | €8M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2020-09-04 | €8M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2021-01-14 | €8M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2021-05-27 | €7.5M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2021-12-20 | €6M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2022-05-18 | €6M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2022-12-06 | €5M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2023-06-21 | €4M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2023-12-11 | €3M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2024-06-06 | €2.5M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2024-12-17 | €1.5M | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2025-03-20 | €1.1M | Eyüpspor |
| 2025-06-18 | €850k | Eyüpspor |
| 2025-10-01 | €700k | Eyüpspor |
| 2025-12-17 | €500k | Eyüpspor |
| 2026-06-02 | €500k | Kolos Kovalivka |
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
- +0.910
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 Liha414 players · median €400k
Valued above 52% of the 414 Premier Liha players.
See them in the Explorer →Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M
Valued above 16% of the 1,687 midfielders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Stepanenko appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- ChachuaAMKarpaty Lviv · Premier Liha€500k
- TopalovLWShakhtar Donetsk · Premier Liha€500k
- PutryaRBLNZ Cherkasy · Premier Liha€500k
- KozakRMFC Oleksandriya · Premier Liha€500k
- MilnerCMBrighton & Hove Albion · midfielders€500k
- MoutinhoCMSC Braga · midfielders€500k
- HöflerDMSC Freiburg · midfielders€500k
- DelaneyCMFC Copenhagen · midfielders€500k
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).