Alexander Prass

Club football at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.

At a glance

age
24
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
Austria
club
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
football-data.org
club tier
1700
ClubElo strength
our board
#687
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
1880′
40 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
9.00
93th percentile of peers

Sourced

squad: Austria · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club: TSG 1899 Hoffenheimfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.

Our rating · the working

the board →

1738 ±45

his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.

How the number is builtopenclose

1755 full roster Elo (+17 from national-team results)

the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band

Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much

potential ~1763 ±46 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the defence age curve

Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.

starts at Austria's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1718
age curve at 24 (defences' curve)young-side discount halved, his measured production overrides the average-youngster prior: -7
transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons: +28
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1738
form: national-team results, 40 appearances1880 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: +17
full roster Elo · with results: 1755

Where the +28 skill term comes from

Not a reputation, a measurement. We score every shot in the data ourselves and rank him among minutes-qualified peers; a fixed arithmetic turns that rank into points.

measured: 9.00 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
his rank: 93th percentile of qualified peers
scored from: the CC0 Transfermarkt community mirror; a market-consensus quality prior, taken at a capped weight where it reads a player higher than our (fixed, partial) shot/event data can
the arithmetic: 46 pts/σ × z(93.3th) = 46 × 1.50 × 0.4 (position weight) = +28

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-22. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.

The notebook

The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.

standing
#687 of 1424 rated players on our board.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +17 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€4.1m–€16m ≈ €8m

Not a figure from any valuation site; we don’t republish those. Our own model: the level he plays at, what we’ve measured of him, his age and his role. A band, not a point: we can’t see contract length or release clauses, the two biggest real drivers, so we say so.

The workingopenclose

reference feea mid-tier-club, peak-age forward of average measured skill: €8m
club tier 1700the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays: ×1.95
ageage 24, in the fee-peak window (24–27): ×1.00
defender fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts: ×0.58
individual skillmeasured 38th percentile of peers: ×0.90
our estimate: ≈ €8m

fee-model v3 priors (panel-anchored, 2026-06), calibrated against our reported fees. The band is roughly two-in-three likely; contract length and release clauses are data we don’t hold. Context only, it never touches a call.

The fee record · sourced

The market’s last public word: €9.5m (2024-08). Our estimate today: ≈ €8m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

2024-08-05Sturm Graz → 1899 Hoffenheim€9.5m

Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.

In our coverage · Austria’s record

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The newsroom’s calls on Austria. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.