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Aaron

Zehnter

LBGermany · VfL Wolfsburg

№ 730484Established €4M +0.22

Player dossierBundesliga

AaronZehnter

LBLeft-BackDefender

Club
VfL Wolfsburg
League
Bundesliga
Nationality
Germany
Age
21
Height
180 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
27 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Zehnter at €5M. Model A, which never saw Zehnter during training, estimates €4M: the market value is 24% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.24. 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 €834k, 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.

▲ +0.22A €4M▲ +1.79B €834k
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
21
Minutes
1,534
Goals
2
Assists
0
Started
18/21
Min / app
73
Cards
1Y 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 Zehnter…

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 €5M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €5MModel A €4M

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

Aaron Zehnter's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 91st, Assists per 90 17th, Minutes, two years 24th, Starts 57th, Minutes, last 365 days 45th, European club minutes 30th91stGoals17thAssists24thMinutes57thStarts45thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

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

0.12 this player0.03 defender median91st percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.41

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
€300k
Jul 2022
Peak
€6M
Jun 2025
Model target
€5M
May 2026
Valuations
12
2 club changes
May 2026€5MVfL WolfsburgValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €5M, VfL Wolfsburg. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2022-07-05€300kFC Augsburg
2022-11-09€300kFC Augsburg
2023-06-22€300kFC Augsburg
2024-01-08€400kSC Paderborn 07
2024-03-22€700kSC Paderborn 07
2024-06-06€1.5MSC Paderborn 07
2024-09-25€2MSC Paderborn 07
2024-12-19€3MSC Paderborn 07
2025-03-26€5MSC Paderborn 07
2025-06-19€6MSC Paderborn 07
2025-12-19€6MVfL Wolfsburg
2026-05-27€5MVfL Wolfsburg

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
+0.215

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 46% of the 451 Bundesliga players.

€300k€2M€15M€100M€5MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 70% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€5MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Zehnter 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).