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Marco

Matias

LWPortugal · SC Farense

№ 61764Emerging €73k −0.37

Player dossierLiga Portugal

MarcoMatias

LWLeft WingerAttack

Club
SC Farense
League
Liga Portugal
Nationality
Portugal
Age
36
Height
177 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
22 Dec 2025

Reading the valuation

The market values Matias at €50k. Model A, which never saw Matias during training, estimates €73k: the market value is 31% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.45. 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 €100k, 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.

▼ −0.37A €73k▼ −0.70B €100k
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
47
Minutes
2,679
Goals
5
Assists
5
Started
33/47
Min / app
57
Cards
2Y 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 Matias…

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

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EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €50kModel A €73k

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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 1,583 attackers

Marco Matias's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 28th, Assists per 90 58th, Minutes, two years 61st, Starts 69th, Minutes, last 365 days 29th, European club minutes 28th28thGoals58thAssists61stMinutes69thStarts29thRecent28thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

Starts

Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.

70% this player59% attacker median69th percentile

5%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
€50k
Nov 2008
Peak
€4.5M
Jul 2015
Model target
€50k
Dec 2025
Valuations
31
8 club changes
Dec 2025€50kSC FarenseValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Dec 2025: €50k, SC Farense. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2008-11-22€50kVarzim SC
2008-12-30€150kVarzim SC
2011-06-30€350kSC Freamunde
2012-01-23€400kSC Freamunde
2013-03-28€700kVitória Guimarães SC
2013-07-02€1.5MVitória Guimarães SC
2014-02-26€2MVitória Guimarães SC
2014-07-25€2.5MCD Nacional
2015-02-17€2.8MCD Nacional
2015-07-01€4.5MCD Nacional
2016-04-20€3.5MSheffield Wednesday
2016-09-01€3MSheffield Wednesday
2017-02-27€2.5MSheffield Wednesday
2017-09-18€2MSheffield Wednesday
2018-02-27€1.5MSheffield Wednesday
2018-09-24€1.5MSheffield Wednesday
2019-06-28€1.5MSheffield Wednesday
2019-12-30€700kB SAD
2020-04-08€550kB SAD
2020-08-14€500kWithout Club
2021-01-28€400kCD Nacional
2021-05-21€200kCD Nacional
2022-04-01€100kCD Nacional
2022-06-27€125kCD Nacional
2022-12-28€125kSC Farense
2023-06-28€100kSC Farense
2023-12-27€100kSC Farense
2024-06-06€100kSC Farense
2024-12-19€100kSC Farense
2025-05-30€100kSC Farense
2025-12-22€50kSC Farense

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
−0.372

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

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Liga Portugal423 players · median €1M

Valued above 0% of the 423 Liga Portugal players.

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

Attackers, all leagues1,583 players · median €2.5M

Valued above 0% of the 1,583 attackers.

€20k€300k€5M€75M€50kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Matias 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).