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Nick

Viergever

CBNetherlands · FC Utrecht

№ 93081Emerging €593k −0.68

Player dossierEredivisie

NickViergever

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club
FC Utrecht
League
Eredivisie
Nationality
Netherlands
Age
36
Height
183 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
28 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Viergever at €300k. Model A, which never saw Viergever during training, estimates €593k: the market value is 49% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.98. 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 €1.9M, 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.

▼ −0.68A €593k▼ −1.85B €1.9M
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
76
Minutes
6,177
Goals
5
Assists
1
Started
67/76
Min / app
81
Cards
7Y 1R

Club matches, two years to the valuation date

The Valuation Journey

What moves Model A

Asking the prediction API to explain Model A for Viergever…

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 €300k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €300kModel A €593k

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

Nick Viergever's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 77th, Assists per 90 35th, Minutes, two years 94th, Starts 64th, Minutes, last 365 days 87th, European club minutes 81st77thGoals35thAssists94thMinutes64thStarts87thRecent81stEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Minutes, two years

Total club minutes in the two-year window: how much the player was used.

6,177 this player2,860 defender median94th percentile

451peer deciles · median line · this player ●9,111

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
May 2009
Peak
€4M
Jul 2012
Model target
€300k
May 2026
Valuations
38
6 club changes
May 2026€300kFC UtrechtValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €300k, FC Utrecht. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2009-05-12€50kSparta Rotterdam U21
2010-01-18€300kSparta Rotterdam
2010-08-04€900kAZ Alkmaar
2011-06-16€1.3MAZ Alkmaar
2011-10-21€2MAZ Alkmaar
2012-01-05€2.5MAZ Alkmaar
2012-07-06€4MAZ Alkmaar
2013-06-12€4MAZ Alkmaar
2014-02-11€4MAZ Alkmaar
2014-08-11€4MAjax Amsterdam
2015-02-16€3MAjax Amsterdam
2015-07-01€3MAjax Amsterdam
2015-11-11€2.5MAjax Amsterdam
2016-02-05€1.8MAjax Amsterdam
2016-07-15€2.3MAjax Amsterdam
2017-01-18€3MAjax Amsterdam
2017-06-07€4MAjax Amsterdam
2018-01-17€4MAjax Amsterdam
2018-06-12€3MAjax Amsterdam
2018-12-28€4MPSV Eindhoven
2019-06-12€4MPSV Eindhoven
2019-12-18€4MPSV Eindhoven
2020-04-08€3.2MPSV Eindhoven
2020-10-14€3MPSV Eindhoven
2021-01-06€2.5MPSV Eindhoven
2021-03-09€2MPSV Eindhoven
2021-05-19€2MPSV Eindhoven
2021-10-07€1.2MSpVgg Greuther Fürth
2021-12-22€1MSpVgg Greuther Fürth
2022-06-09€800kSpVgg Greuther Fürth
2022-11-11€800kFC Utrecht
2023-06-23€650kFC Utrecht
2023-12-15€500kFC Utrecht
2024-05-31€450kFC Utrecht
2024-12-17€400kFC Utrecht
2025-05-28€400kFC Utrecht
2025-12-02€350kFC Utrecht
2026-05-28€300kFC Utrecht

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
−0.681

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 →

Eredivisie425 players · median €1M

Valued above 8% of the 425 Eredivisie players.

€75k€500k€3M€20M€300kSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 9% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€300kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Viergever 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).