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David Affengruber

Austria · the desk

Defence, Austria

Club football at Elche CF.

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

    Elche CF

    football-data.org

  • club tier

    1623

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #898

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    2953′

    36 appearances

  • possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)

    5.41

    97th percentile of peers

Sourced

squad
Austria · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club
Elche CFfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board

1688 ±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

1701 full roster Elo (+13 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 ~1711 ±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
1660
age curve at 24 (defences' curve)young-side discount halved, his measured production overrides the average-youngster prior
-7
defensive actions in club football, possession-adjustedhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
+35
quality rating · club, age + measured output
1688
form: national-team results, 36 appearances2953 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
+13
full roster Elo · with results
1701

Where the +35 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
5.41 possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
his rank
97th percentile of qualified peers
scored from
recent club seasons (api-football), an individual box-stat proxy, possession-adjusted; volume, not a quality verdict
the arithmetic
46 pts/σ × z(97.3th) = 46 × 1.92 × 0.4 (position weight) = +35

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-05-23. 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

    #898 of 1424 rated players on our board.

  • vs his seed

    The folded nights have added +13 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€5.1m€20m €10m

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 1623the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
×1.51
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 97th percentile of peers
×1.49
our estimate
€10m

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

  • 2024-08-28Sturm Graz Elchefree
  • 2021-07-01Red Bull Salzburg Sturm Grazundisclosed

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

  • at Algeria3–3Called it
  • at Argentina2–0Called it
  • v Jordan3–1Called it

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

Squad · sourced