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Nicolás

Capaldo

CBArgentina · Hamburger SV

№ 649672Established €5.1M +0.45

Player dossierBundesliga

NicolásCapaldo

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club
Hamburger SV
League
Bundesliga
Nationality
Argentina
Age
27
Height
177 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
27 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Capaldo at €8M. Model A, which never saw Capaldo during training, estimates €5.1M: the market value is 56% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.56. 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 €1.4M, 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.

▲ +0.45A €5.1M▲ +1.74B €1.4M
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
2,130
Goals
1
Assists
3
Started
25/27
Min / app
79
Cards
10Y 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 Capaldo…

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 €8M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €8MModel A €5.1M

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

Nicolás Capaldo's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 58th, Assists per 90 84th, Minutes, two years 36th, Starts 78th, Minutes, last 365 days 66th, European club minutes 30th58thGoals84thAssists36thMinutes78thStarts66thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.13 this player0.04 defender median84th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.58

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
€500k
Aug 2019
Peak
€8M
Sept 2022
Model target
€8M
May 2026
Valuations
17
2 club changes
May 2026€8MHamburger SVValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €8M, Hamburger SV. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2019-08-06€500kCA Boca Juniors
2019-12-05€2.5MCA Boca Juniors
2020-04-08€2.3MCA Boca Juniors
2021-02-08€5MCA Boca Juniors
2021-12-16€6.5MRed Bull Salzburg
2022-05-27€6.5MRed Bull Salzburg
2022-09-20€8MRed Bull Salzburg
2022-11-10€8MRed Bull Salzburg
2023-06-12€8MRed Bull Salzburg
2023-12-11€8MRed Bull Salzburg
2024-05-21€5MRed Bull Salzburg
2024-12-17€5MRed Bull Salzburg
2025-06-06€5MRed Bull Salzburg
2025-10-14€4MHamburger SV
2025-12-19€4MHamburger SV
2026-03-20€5MHamburger SV
2026-05-27€8MHamburger SV

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
+0.446

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 →

Bundesliga451 players · median €5M

Valued above 60% of the 451 Bundesliga players.

€300k€2M€15M€100M€8MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 78% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€8MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Capaldo 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).