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Cristian

Montano

LMColombia · Livingston FC

№ 87667Emerging €89k −0.17

Player dossierPremiership

CristianMontano

LMLeft MidfieldMidfield

Club
Livingston FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Colombia
Age
34
Height
180 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
20 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Montano at €75k. Model A, which never saw Montano during training, estimates €89k: the market value is 16% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.19. 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 €209k, 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.

▼ −0.17A €89k▼ −1.03B €209k
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
22
Minutes
1,513
Goals
2
Assists
3
Started
18/22
Min / app
69
Cards
7Y 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 Montano…

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 €75k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €75kModel A €89k

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 1,687 midfielders

Cristian Montano's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 62nd, Assists per 90 78th, Minutes, two years 25th, Starts 74th, Minutes, last 365 days 49th, European club minutes 30th62ndGoals78thAssists25thMinutes74thStarts49thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.18 this player0.09 midfielder median78th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.74

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
€75k
Sept 2011
Peak
€400k
Dec 2022
Model target
€75k
May 2026
Valuations
13
2 club changes
May 2026€75kLivingston FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €75k, Livingston FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2011-09-14€75kNotts County
2016-10-11€75kBristol Rovers
2021-12-31€250kLivingston FC
2022-06-27€225kLivingston FC
2022-12-13€400kLivingston FC
2023-06-26€375kLivingston FC
2023-12-05€325kLivingston FC
2024-05-30€300kLivingston FC
2024-10-04€250kLivingston FC
2024-12-03€200kLivingston FC
2025-06-17€150kLivingston FC
2025-12-10€100kLivingston FC
2026-05-20€75kLivingston FC

Audit context group-level, not about this player

Audit group
non-UEFA
Population gap, Model A
+0.093 95% CI +0.063 to +0.124
This player, market vs held-out A
−0.170

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 5% of the 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€75kSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 0% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€75kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Montano 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).