Chukwubuikem
Ikwuemesi
CFNigeria · Oud-Heverlee Leuven
Player dossierPro League
ChukwubuikemIkwuemesi
CFCentre-ForwardAttack
- Club
- Oud-Heverlee Leuven
- League
- Pro League
- Nationality
- Nigeria
- Age
- 24
- Height
- 195 cm
- Foot
- Right
- Valued
- 4 Jun 2026
Pro LeagueReading the valuation
The market values Ikwuemesi at €1.2M. Model A, which never saw Ikwuemesi during training, estimates €1.6M: the market value is 25% below that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.34. 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 €2.8M, 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.
- Apps
- 61
- Minutes
- 3,351
- Goals
- 8
- Assists
- 2
- Started
- 35/61
- Min / app
- 55
- Cards
- 6Y 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 Ikwuemesi…
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 €1.2M
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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 1,583 attackers
Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)
Minutes, two years
Total club minutes in the two-year window: how much the player was used.
3,351 this player2,242 attacker median72nd 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
- €50k
- Sept 2021
- Peak
- €2M
- Jun 2025
- Model target
- €1.2M
- Jun 2026
- Valuations
- 12
- 3 club changes
Jun 2026: €1.2M, Oud-Heverlee Leuven. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-01 | €50k | SK Vorwärts Steyr |
| 2021-12-01 | €175k | SK Vorwärts Steyr |
| 2022-07-05 | €125k | NK Celje |
| 2022-12-15 | €400k | NK Celje |
| 2023-05-25 | €500k | NK Celje |
| 2023-10-11 | €1.5M | US Salernitana 1919 |
| 2023-12-20 | €1.8M | US Salernitana 1919 |
| 2024-06-05 | €1.8M | US Salernitana 1919 |
| 2024-12-11 | €1.8M | Oud-Heverlee Leuven |
| 2025-06-12 | €2M | Oud-Heverlee Leuven |
| 2025-12-10 | €1.5M | Oud-Heverlee Leuven |
| 2026-06-04 | €1.2M | Oud-Heverlee Leuven |
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
- −0.294
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 34% of the 350 Pro League players.
See them in the Explorer →Attackers, all leagues1,583 players · median €2.5M
Valued above 34% of the 1,583 attackers.
See them in the Explorer →Where Ikwuemesi appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- CoosemansGKRSC Anderlecht · Pro League€1.2M
- MrabtiAMKV Mechelen · Pro League€1.2M
- JackersGKClub Brugge KV · Pro League€1.2M
- VerlindenLWOud-Heverlee Leuven · Pro League€1.2M
- SánchezSSSevilla FC · attackers€1.2M
- PerišićLWPSV Eindhoven · attackers€1.2M
- PortuRWGirona FC · attackers€1.2M
- BakambuCFReal Betis Balompié · attackers€1.2M
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).