Player Trends
The Trend column on the Players page shows each player’s recent rolling form — the same “who’s hot right now” signal you open the ESPN app to check, but scored on your league’s actual scoring categories.
The Trend column
Section titled “The Trend column”Every player gets a compact ▲/▼ signal summarizing their last 15 days:
- Green ▲ — trending up (producing above the league’s recent baseline)
- Red ▼ — trending down
- Gray dash — played, but too small a sample to read anything into
- DNP — didn’t play in the window (injured, rested, or in the minors)
Click the Trend header to sort — the hottest players over the last 15 days rise to the top, and DNP / small-sample players sort to the bottom so a hot leaderboard is never diluted by someone with a single at-bat.
How it’s scored
Section titled “How it’s scored”The score is deliberately conservative so it never lies to you:
- Rate stats (AVG, ERA, WHIP, OBP…) are compared exactly as the league values them, weighted by playing time — never a misleading average of good and bad games.
- Counting stats are compared as per-game rates, so a player isn’t rewarded purely for playing more.
- ERA and WHIP are inverted — a lower number is better.
- Small samples are damped. A red-hot 4-at-bat week does not paint bright green; the signal stays muted until there’s enough playing time to trust it.
- A player who didn’t play is never shown as “cold” — DNP is its own state.
League-format aware
Section titled “League-format aware”When you have a league selected, trends are scored on that league’s categories. Switch leagues and every player instantly re-scores — no reload. Signed out (or with no league selected), trends use the standard 5×5 roto categories (R, HR, RBI, SB, AVG for hitters; W, SV, K, ERA, WHIP for pitchers).
The Trend column header tooltip always tells you which category set is in play and the date the data runs through.
The Trends tab
Section titled “The Trends tab”Open any player’s detail modal and select the Trends tab for the full picture:
- A per-category breakdown across 7-day / 15-day / 30-day / Season columns, so you can see exactly where a hot streak is coming from (or where a slump is concentrated).
- Each window cell is colored against the player’s own season baseline — green when they’re outproducing their norm, red when they’re below it.
- A simple heating up / cooling down indicator compares the 7-day form to the 30-day form.
Pitchers default to the 15-day window, since 7 days is often just one or two starts.
- Trends update nightly, after all games are final. The “through {date}” label shows exactly how fresh the data is.
- Quality Starts (QS) can’t be derived from the trend data source, so a league that scores QS will show n/a for that category rather than a misleading 0 — and QS is excluded from the composite score.
- The Trend column hides itself in the offseason (when no one in the pool has played in the last 15 days).