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Graeme

Shinnie

DMScotland · Aberdeen FC

№ 95950Emerging €123k −0.21

Player dossierPremiership

GraemeShinnie

DMDefensive MidfieldMidfield

Club
Aberdeen FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Scotland
Age
34
Height
173 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
20 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Shinnie at €100k. Model A, which never saw Shinnie during training, estimates €123k: the market value is 19% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.23. 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 €425k, 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.

▼ −0.21A €123k▼ −1.45B €425k
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
69
Minutes
4,850
Goals
3
Assists
5
Started
51/69
Min / app
70
Cards
15Y 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 Shinnie…

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

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €100kModel A €123k

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

Graeme Shinnie's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 37th, Assists per 90 49th, Minutes, two years 85th, Starts 59th, Minutes, last 365 days 69th, European club minutes 62nd37thGoals49thAssists85thMinutes59thStarts69thRecent62ndEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Minutes, two years

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

4,850 this player2,607 midfielder median85th percentile

451peer deciles · median line · this player ●9,624

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
Aug 2010
Peak
€1.8M
Mar 2021
Model target
€100k
May 2026
Valuations
30
4 club changes
May 2026€100kAberdeen FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

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

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2010-08-15€50kInverness Caledonian Thistle FC
2011-02-03€200kInverness Caledonian Thistle FC
2011-07-04€300kInverness Caledonian Thistle FC
2012-07-20€400kInverness Caledonian Thistle FC
2013-02-14€450kInverness Caledonian Thistle FC
2013-10-08€450kInverness Caledonian Thistle FC
2014-02-13€500kInverness Caledonian Thistle FC
2014-10-08€550kInverness Caledonian Thistle FC
2015-11-30€600kAberdeen FC
2017-02-14€750kAberdeen FC
2018-03-04€850kAberdeen FC
2018-08-08€850kAberdeen FC
2019-01-03€850kAberdeen FC
2019-10-17€1.5MDerby County
2020-02-27€1.5MDerby County
2020-04-08€1.2MDerby County
2020-10-15€1.5MDerby County
2021-03-10€1.8MDerby County
2021-06-30€1.8MDerby County
2021-11-24€1.8MDerby County
2022-06-30€800kWigan Athletic
2022-10-27€700kWigan Athletic
2023-06-09€400kWigan Athletic
2023-09-22€500kAberdeen FC
2023-12-05€400kAberdeen FC
2024-05-30€350kAberdeen FC
2024-12-03€300kAberdeen FC
2025-06-17€250kAberdeen FC
2025-12-10€200kAberdeen FC
2026-05-20€100kAberdeen 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
−0.205

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 →

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

Valued above 0% of the 1,687 midfielders.

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

Where Shinnie 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).