Ruslan
Babenko
CMUkraine · Polissya Zhytomyr
Player dossierPremier Liha
RuslanBabenko
CMCentral MidfieldMidfield
- Club
- Polissya Zhytomyr
- League
- Premier Liha
- Nationality
- Ukraine
- Age
- 33
- Height
- 172 cm
- Foot
- Left
- Valued
- 2 Jun 2026
Reading the valuation
The market values Babenko at €250k. Model A, which never saw Babenko during training, estimates €705k: the market value is 65% below that estimate.
That is a factor of ×2.82. 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 €1.6M, 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.
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Club matches, two years to the valuation date
The Valuation Journey
What moves Model A
Asking the prediction API to explain Model A for Babenko…
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 €250k
Checking APIAsking 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
Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)
Starts
Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.
93% this player69% midfielder median91st 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
- Dec 2008
- Peak
- €800k
- Jun 2023
- Model target
- €250k
- Jun 2026
- Valuations
- 30
- 12 club changes
Jun 2026: €250k, Polissya Zhytomyr. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2008-12-14 | €50k | Unknown |
| 2009-11-23 | €25k | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk II (- 2020) |
| 2011-07-04 | €100k | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (- 2020) |
| 2012-07-02 | €300k | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (- 2020) |
| 2013-06-17 | €400k | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (- 2020) |
| 2014-12-25 | €700k | Volyn Lutsk |
| 2015-06-07 | €700k | Volyn Lutsk |
| 2015-12-17 | €700k | Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk |
| 2016-12-18 | €400k | FK Bodø/Glimt |
| 2017-06-26 | €300k | Zorya Lugansk |
| 2018-01-12 | €400k | Zorya Lugansk |
| 2018-08-06 | €400k | Chornomorets Odesa |
| 2018-12-10 | €500k | Chornomorets Odesa |
| 2019-06-20 | €600k | Chornomorets Odesa |
| 2020-01-15 | €500k | Raków Częstochowa |
| 2020-04-08 | €400k | Raków Częstochowa |
| 2020-10-16 | €400k | Olimpik Donetsk |
| 2021-01-14 | €400k | Olimpik Donetsk |
| 2021-06-07 | €400k | Olimpik Donetsk |
| 2021-12-06 | €350k | Polissya Zhytomyr |
| 2022-05-18 | €350k | Polissya Zhytomyr |
| 2022-09-06 | €300k | SC Dnipro-1 |
| 2022-12-06 | €700k | SC Dnipro-1 |
| 2023-06-21 | €800k | SC Dnipro-1 |
| 2023-12-11 | €600k | SC Dnipro-1 |
| 2024-06-06 | €500k | SC Dnipro-1 |
| 2024-12-17 | €300k | Polissya Zhytomyr |
| 2025-06-10 | €300k | Polissya Zhytomyr |
| 2025-12-18 | €300k | Polissya Zhytomyr |
| 2026-06-02 | €250k | Polissya Zhytomyr |
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
- −1.037
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 →Premier Liha414 players · median €400k
Valued above 17% of the 414 Premier Liha players.
See them in the Explorer →Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M
Valued above 5% of the 1,687 midfielders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Babenko appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- PalamarchukGKLNZ Cherkasy · Premier Liha€250k
- RakitskyiCBChornomorets Odesa · Premier Liha€250k
- BoryachukCFEpicentr Kamyanets-Podilskyi · Premier Liha€250k
- MyshnyovCMFC Oleksandriya · Premier Liha€250k
- FalkCMOdense Boldklub · midfielders€250k
- SydorchukDMKVC Westerlo · midfielders€250k
- StambouliDMFC Metz · midfielders€250k
- SibbaldDMDundee United FC · midfielders€250k
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).