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João

Aurélio

RBPortugal · CD Nacional

№ 84711Emerging €80k −0.47

Player dossierLiga Portugal

JoãoAurélio

RBRight-BackDefender

Club
CD Nacional
League
Liga Portugal
Nationality
Portugal
Age
37
Height
182 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
28 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Aurélio at €50k. Model A, which never saw Aurélio during training, estimates €80k: the market value is 38% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.60. 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 €161k, 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.

▼ −0.47A €80k▼ −1.17B €161k
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
36
Minutes
1,816
Goals
1
Assists
1
Started
20/36
Min / app
50
Cards
4Y 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 Aurélio…

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 €50k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €50kModel A €80k

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

João Aurélio's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 63rd, Assists per 90 57th, Minutes, two years 29th, Starts 11th, Minutes, last 365 days 39th, European club minutes 30th63rdGoals57thAssists29thMinutes11thStarts39thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

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

0.05 this player0.03 defender median63rd 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
Oct 2008
Peak
€2.6M
Jul 2015
Model target
€50k
May 2026
Valuations
33
4 club changes
May 2026€50kCD NacionalValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €50k, CD Nacional. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2008-10-23€300kCD Nacional
2009-07-02€600kCD Nacional
2010-07-01€800kCD Nacional
2011-06-29€800kCD Nacional
2012-07-05€1MCD Nacional
2013-04-03€1.5MCD Nacional
2013-07-02€1.5MCD Nacional
2014-07-25€2MCD Nacional
2015-02-17€2.4MCD Nacional
2015-07-01€2.6MCD Nacional
2016-02-24€2.5MCD Nacional
2016-07-29€2.5MVitória Guimarães SC
2017-02-22€2MVitória Guimarães SC
2017-06-26€1.8MVitória Guimarães SC
2018-02-07€1.3MVitória Guimarães SC
2018-06-13€1.3MVitória Guimarães SC
2019-01-11€800kMoreirense FC
2019-06-07€800kMoreirense FC
2019-12-30€700kMoreirense FC
2020-04-08€550kMoreirense FC
2020-08-17€600kMoreirense FC
2020-10-06€600kPafos FC
2021-05-14€500kPafos FC
2022-01-11€500kPafos FC
2022-06-20€400kPafos FC
2022-12-28€200kCD Nacional
2023-06-28€125kCD Nacional
2023-12-14€100kCD Nacional
2024-06-20€75kCD Nacional
2024-12-19€75kCD Nacional
2025-05-30€50kCD Nacional
2025-12-18€50kCD Nacional
2026-05-28€50kCD Nacional

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
−0.471

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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Liga Portugal423 players · median €1M

Valued above 0% of the 423 Liga Portugal players.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€50kSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 0% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€50kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Aurélio 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).