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Scott

Bain

GKScotland · Falkirk FC

№ 85627Emerging €82k +0.20

Player dossierPremiership

ScottBain

GKGoalkeeperGoalkeeper

Club
Falkirk FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Scotland
Age
34
Height
183 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
20 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Bain at €100k. Model A, which never saw Bain during training, estimates €82k: the market value is 22% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.22. 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 €206k, 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.

▲ +0.20A €82k▼ −0.72B €206k
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
3,314
Started
36/36
Min / app
92
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 Bain…

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 €100k

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EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €100kModel A €82k

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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 485 goalkeepers

Scott Bain's percentiles among goalkeepers: Minutes, two years 61st, Starts 62nd, Minutes, last 365 days 87th, European club minutes 32nd61stMinutes62ndStarts87thRecent32ndEurope

Dashed ring: the goalkeeper median (50th percentile)

Minutes, last 365 days

Club minutes in the final year of the window: recent involvement, or the absence of it.

3,314 this player1,560 goalkeeper median87th percentile

0peer deciles · median line · this player ●4,970

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
€175k
Sept 2013
Peak
€800k
Jun 2021
Model target
€100k
May 2026
Valuations
22
3 club changes
May 2026€100kFalkirk FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €100k, Falkirk FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2013-09-26€175kAlloa Athletic FC
2014-10-09€250kDundee FC
2015-12-07€400kDundee FC
2017-02-14€400kDundee FC
2018-03-04€350kCeltic FC
2018-08-08€500kCeltic FC
2019-01-03€500kCeltic FC
2019-08-20€750kCeltic FC
2020-02-05€750kCeltic FC
2020-04-08€600kCeltic FC
2021-01-18€600kCeltic FC
2021-06-28€800kCeltic FC
2021-12-31€800kCeltic FC
2022-06-27€800kCeltic FC
2022-12-13€650kCeltic FC
2023-06-26€350kCeltic FC
2023-12-05€300kCeltic FC
2024-05-30€250kCeltic FC
2024-12-03€200kCeltic FC
2025-06-17€150kCeltic FC
2025-12-10€100kFalkirk FC
2026-05-20€100kFalkirk FC

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
+0.202

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 →

Premiership311 players · median €400k

Valued above 7% of the 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€100kSee them in the Explorer →

Goalkeepers, all leagues485 players · median €1M

Valued above 3% of the 485 goalkeepers.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€100kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Bain 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).