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Oisin

Smyth

AMNorthern Ireland · Partick Thistle FC

№ 605167Emerging €217k +0.40

Player dossierPremiership

OisinSmyth

AMAttacking MidfieldMidfield

Club
Partick Thistle FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Northern Ireland
Age
26
Height
–
Foot
–
Valued
21 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Smyth at €325k. Model A, which never saw Smyth during training, estimates €217k: the market value is 50% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.50. 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 €481k, 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.

▲ +0.40A €217k▼ −0.39B €481k
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
27
Minutes
1,050
Goals
4
Assists
0
Started
10/27
Min / app
39
Cards
3Y 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 Smyth…

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 €325k

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EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €325kModel A €217k

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

Oisin Smyth's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 95th, Assists per 90 8th, Minutes, two years 15th, Starts 9th, Minutes, last 365 days 4th, European club minutes 83rd95thGoals8thAssists15thMinutes9thStarts4thRecent83rdEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

Club goals per 90 minutes played in the two years to the valuation date.

0.34 this player0.08 midfielder median95th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.93

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
€150k
Sept 2021
Peak
€400k
Dec 2024
Model target
€325k
May 2026
Valuations
12
3 club changes
May 2026€325kPartick Thistle FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €325k, Partick Thistle FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2021-09-27€150kDungannon Swifts FC
2022-07-29€200kOxford United
2023-04-05€150kOxford United
2023-06-09€150kOxford United
2023-12-27€150kOxford United
2024-06-28€125kOxford United
2024-10-02€200kSt. Mirren FC
2024-12-03€400kSt. Mirren FC
2025-06-17€400kSt. Mirren FC
2025-10-09€300kPartick Thistle FC
2025-12-10€300kPartick Thistle FC
2026-05-21€325kPartick Thistle 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
+0.403

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 45% of the 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€325kSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 10% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€325kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Smyth 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).