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Abdoulaye

Bamba

CBCote d'Ivoire · Angers SCO

№ 62351Emerging €282k −0.34

Player dossierLigue 1

AbdoulayeBamba

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club
Angers SCO
League
Ligue 1
Nationality
Cote d'Ivoire
Age
36
Height
182 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
1 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Bamba at €200k. Model A, which never saw Bamba during training, estimates €282k: the market value is 29% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.41. 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 €303k, 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.

▼ −0.34A €282k▼ −0.41B €303k
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
25
Minutes
1,766
Goals
0
Assists
0
Started
19/25
Min / app
71
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 Bamba…

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 €200k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €200kModel A €282k

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 2,065 defenders

Abdoulaye Bamba's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 18th, Assists per 90 17th, Minutes, two years 28th, Starts 37th, Minutes, last 365 days 6th, European club minutes 30th18thGoals17thAssists28thMinutes37thStarts6thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Starts

Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.

76% this player83% defender median37th percentile

18%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
€100k
Nov 2009
Peak
€3M
Jun 2019
Model target
€200k
Jun 2026
Valuations
32
2 club changes
Jun 2026€200kAngers SCOValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2026: €200k, Angers SCO. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2009-11-17€100kJuventus Primavera
2010-08-01€400kDijon FCO
2011-05-30€500kDijon FCO
2011-12-24€1MDijon FCO
2012-05-23€1.3MDijon FCO
2013-01-04€1.5MDijon FCO
2013-05-29€1.3MDijon FCO
2014-01-13€750kDijon FCO
2014-11-20€800kDijon FCO
2015-06-06€800kDijon FCO
2016-02-04€1MDijon FCO
2017-01-16€800kAngers SCO
2017-06-01€1MAngers SCO
2018-01-24€1MAngers SCO
2018-06-04€1MAngers SCO
2018-12-17€1MAngers SCO
2019-03-07€2.5MAngers SCO
2019-06-03€3MAngers SCO
2019-12-19€2.5MAngers SCO
2020-04-08€2MAngers SCO
2020-10-15€2MAngers SCO
2021-06-04€1.2MAngers SCO
2021-12-16€600kAngers SCO
2022-05-30€500kAngers SCO
2022-11-02€400kAngers SCO
2023-06-27€400kAngers SCO
2023-12-13€400kAngers SCO
2024-06-11€400kAngers SCO
2024-12-10€350kAngers SCO
2025-06-03€300kAngers SCO
2025-12-15€250kAngers SCO
2026-06-01€200kAngers SCO

Audit context group-level, not about this player

Audit group
non-UEFA
Population gap, Model A
+0.093 95% CI +0.063 to +0.124
This player, market vs held-out A
−0.344

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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Ligue 1423 players · median €5M

Valued above 1% of the 423 Ligue 1 players.

€100k€750k€5M€30M€200kSee them in the Explorer →

Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M

Valued above 5% of the 2,065 defenders.

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

Where Bamba 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).