Matties
Volckaert
CBBelgium · KAA Gent
Player dossierPro League
MattiesVolckaert
CBCentre-BackDefender
- Club
- KAA Gent
- League
- Pro League
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Age
- 23
- Height
- –
- Foot
- Right
- Valued
- 4 Jun 2026
Reading the valuation
The market values Volckaert at €2M. Model A, which never saw Volckaert during training, estimates €3.1M: the market value is 36% below that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.55. 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 €1.5M, closer to the market here, although it is usually further off (typical miss ×2.07).
A gap describes the model's arithmetic for this player's inputs, not what the player is worth.
- Apps
- 26
- Minutes
- 2,231
- Goals
- 0
- Assists
- 0
- Started
- 25/26
- Min / app
- 86
- 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 Volckaert…
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 €2M
Checking APIAsking 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
Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)
Starts
Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.
96% this player83% defender median87th percentile
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
- Oct 2025
- Peak
- €2M
- Jun 2026
- Model target
- €2M
- Jun 2026
- Valuations
- 4
- 1 club change
Jun 2026: €2M, KAA Gent. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-15 | €200k | Jong KAA Gent |
| 2025-12-10 | €400k | KAA Gent |
| 2026-03-13 | €1.5M | KAA Gent |
| 2026-06-04 | €2M | KAA Gent |
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
- −0.440
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 →Pro League350 players · median €1.8M
Valued above 50% of the 350 Pro League players.
See them in the Explorer →Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M
Valued above 49% of the 2,065 defenders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Volckaert appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- HazardAMRSC Anderlecht · Pro League€2M
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- SchoofsCMUnion Saint-Gilloise · Pro League€2M
- AyensaCFStandard Liège · Pro League€2M
- HummelsCBAS Roma · defenders€2M
- GünterLBSC Freiburg · defenders€2M
- KohrCB1.FSV Mainz 05 · defenders€2M
- ToljanRBLevante UD · defenders€2M
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).