GijsBesselink

CMCentral MidfieldMidfield

Club: Willem II Tilburg
League: Eredivisie
Nationality: Netherlands
Age: 21
Height: 180 cm
Foot: Right
Valued: 16 Dec 2025

Reading the valuation

The market values Besselink at €600k. Model A, which never saw Besselink during training, estimates €494k: the market value is 21% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.21. 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 €2.2M, 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.

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: 26
Minutes: 614
Goals: 0
Assists: 0
Started: 6/26
Min / app: 24
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 Besselink…

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 €600k

Checking API

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

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

European club minutes

Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.

30% this player0% midfielder median96th percentile

0%peer deciles · median line · this player ●85%

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: €75k; Oct 2023
Peak: €600k; Dec 2024
Model target: €600k; Dec 2025
Valuations: 7; 1 club change

Dec 2025€600kWillem II TilburgValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Dec 2025: €600k, Willem II Tilburg. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table

Date	Market value	Club
2023-10-13	€75k	FC Twente Enschede
2023-12-15	€100k	FC Twente Enschede
2024-05-31	€150k	FC Twente Enschede
2024-10-14	€300k	FC Twente Enschede
2024-12-17	€600k	FC Twente Enschede
2025-05-28	€600k	FC Twente Enschede
2025-12-16	€600k	Willem II Tilburg

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: +0.194

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 →

Eredivisie425 players · median €1M

Valued above 28% of the 425 Eredivisie players.

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

Valued above 20% of the 1,687 midfielders.

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Where Besselink appears

TerminalEredivisie in the Player Explorer
TerminalEredivisie on the League Landscape

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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).