Trending Players

Rising and Falling are the players whose % rostered moved a point or more over the window, ESPN's and Yahoo's change averaged. Underrated is a player rostered in 30% or more of leagues whom we rank at least 25 places better than his roster % puts him. Waiver gem is a player in our top 60 with 20 or more minutes a game who is under 30% rostered on both platforms: the waiver wire in most leagues. Momentum is a player whose rank climbed 40 or more places from the preseason projection to his latest games while his % rostered rises. Good schedule is a pickup under 50% rostered, in our top 150 with 20 or more minutes, whose team plays 4 of the next 7 nights or 3 of the next 4 and whom our models expect in nearly all of them, half a game or more above a typical rotation player over the same nights. A gain that came while a teammate ahead of him on the depth chart sat out most of his games is marked with a !: it may last only until that teammate is back. Minutes boost is a pickup under 50% rostered whom our injury model expects to gain minutes tonight, while a teammate it gives under 50% to play sits. Rank rising and Rank sliding read our nightly rankings: a player in our top 150 with 20 or more minutes a game who moved 15 or more places up or down on the board picked above over the last 7 nights. Momentum compares boards; these say what changed this week.

Each signal keeps its 15 strongest players, and every player is on one side. Trending up puts the strongest case for a pickup first: a player who is rising and under-rostered comes before one who is only rising. Trending down puts the strongest case against one first: every signal he carries, then how fast he is being dropped. Anything pointing down puts a player on Trending down, his up signals still showing: Falling, Rank sliding, or % rostered down a point or more. So a pickup trends one way only, here and on the home page. Top pickups right now are the first five players on Trending up, or with a league connected the first five free agents, one card at a time: the arrows, or a swipe on a phone, move between them. Trending down opens the same way on its biggest drops in % rostered. Good schedule counts only in the daily view: with Playing tonight on Yes, and in the home page's Top pickups for today. Everywhere else it shows as a tag, but it neither moves a player up nor puts him on the list alone.

% rostered is ESPN's and Yahoo's own, read every hour and kept day by day, so the change is today's reading against the day the window starts. Rank is ours, as in Rankings: on the season so far or its last two weeks, scored on your league's categories when one is active.

With a league connected, each player is tagged with the fantasy team that has him, and the chips above the list narrow it to your team, the free agents or another manager's roster.

Pick 7 days and the Rising signal: the list shows the players whose % rostered rose most on ESPN and Yahoo over the week, with each platform's change beside his name.

Switch to Trending down: it opens on the biggest drops in % rostered on ESPN and Yahoo over the window, then lists every player being dropped or sliding on our board, the strongest case against first. Pick 7 days for the week's drops.

The Waiver gem signal lists the players in our top 60 who are under 30% rostered on both ESPN and Yahoo, and Good schedule the cheap pickups likely to play the most games in the coming nights. With a league connected, choose Free agents to see only the ones still available in it.

ESPN and Yahoo leagues are run by different managers, so a player can be picked up on one platform days before the other. Each platform's change is shown as it is, and the signals average the two.