MaksymMelnychenko

DMDefensive MidfieldMidfield

Club: Polissya Zhytomyr
League: Premier Liha
Nationality: Ukraine
Age: 21
Height: 178 cm
Foot: Right
Valued: 2 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Melnychenko at €300k. Model A, which never saw Melnychenko during training, estimates €622k: the market value is 52% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×2.07. 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 €857k, 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: 15
Minutes: 649
Goals: 0
Assists: 0
Started: 8/15
Min / app: 43
Cards: 0Y 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 Melnychenko…

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 €300k

Checking API

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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 1,687 midfielders

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

European club minutes

Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.

1% this player0% midfielder median60th 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: €100k; Mar 2024
Peak: €400k; Dec 2024
Model target: €300k; Jun 2026
Valuations: 6; 1 club change

Jun 2026€300kPolissya ZhytomyrValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2026: €300k, Polissya Zhytomyr. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table

Date	Market value	Club
2024-03-18	€100k	SC Dnipro-1 U19
2024-06-06	€100k	SC Dnipro-1 U19
2024-12-17	€400k	Polissya Zhytomyr
2025-06-10	€400k	Polissya Zhytomyr
2025-12-18	€400k	Polissya Zhytomyr
2026-06-02	€300k	Polissya Zhytomyr

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: −0.729

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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Premier Liha414 players · median €400k

Valued above 27% of the 414 Premier Liha players.

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

Valued above 7% of the 1,687 midfielders.

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Where Melnychenko appears

TerminalPremier Liha in the Player Explorer
TerminalPremier Liha 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).