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Andréas

Hountondji

CFBenin · FC St. Pauli

№ 704155Established €2.6M +0.13

Player dossierBundesliga

AndréasHountondji

CFCentre-ForwardAttack

Club
FC St. Pauli
League
Bundesliga
Nationality
Benin
Age
23
Height
190 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
27 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Hountondji at €3M. Model A, which never saw Hountondji during training, estimates €2.6M: the market value is 13% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.13. 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 €985k, 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.

▲ +0.13A €2.6M▲ +1.11B €985k
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
34
Minutes
1,600
Goals
5
Assists
1
Started
20/34
Min / app
47
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 Hountondji…

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 €3M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €3MModel A €2.6M

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 1,583 attackers

Andréas Hountondji's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 54th, Assists per 90 17th, Minutes, two years 34th, Starts 50th, Minutes, last 365 days 46th, European club minutes 28th54thGoals17thAssists34thMinutes50thStarts46thRecent28thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

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

0.28 this player0.26 attacker median54th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●1.17

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
€200k
Jun 2021
Peak
€5M
Oct 2025
Model target
€3M
May 2026
Valuations
16
7 club changes
May 2026€3MFC St. PauliValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €3M, FC St. Pauli. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2021-06-25€200kSM Caen B
2021-10-27€500kSM Caen
2021-12-27€500kSM Caen
2022-06-02€500kSM Caen
2022-10-28€400kQuevilly Rouen Métropole
2023-06-14€500kUS Orléans
2023-10-27€600kRodez AF
2023-12-13€700kRodez AF
2024-03-26€1.5MRodez AF
2024-06-11€1.8MRodez AF
2024-09-24€2.8MBurnley FC
2024-12-30€2.8MBurnley FC
2025-06-12€2.5MStandard Liège
2025-10-14€5MFC St. Pauli
2025-12-19€5MFC St. Pauli
2026-05-27€3MFC St. Pauli

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
+0.125

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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Bundesliga451 players · median €5M

Valued above 31% of the 451 Bundesliga players.

€300k€2M€15M€100M€3MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 52% of the 1,583 attackers.

€20k€300k€5M€75M€3MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Hountondji 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).