What it is

OOPSY Peak ranks every player, established big leaguers and minor-league prospects alike, by their projected career-peak season: the best single year the OOPSY model expects them to deliver at their ceiling. Not next week, not this season’s current pace; their peak.

That “peak” framing is what makes it a dynasty tool. A 19-year-old in A-ball and a 27-year-old All-Star can sit on the same board because you’re comparing the value each will provide at their best, which is exactly the question dynasty managers are trying to answer.

OOPSY Peak is also the engine behind most of the OOPSY tool ecosystem. Its valuations feed the Trade Analyzer, Roster Manager, and the league and power rankings, so the rankings you see here are the same ones driving those tools.

If you instead want a player’s rest-of-this-season outlook, that’s the OOPSY Current leaderboard: same model, different time horizon.

Where to find it

• Menu: OOPSY Model → OOPSY Peak
• Direct: scoutthestatline.com/oopsy-peak
• Access: A signed-in STS account is required to use the leaderboard. Once you’re in, Fantrax Sync, saved lists, and card/watchlist tracking are all available.

Quickstart

Get to a useful board in under a minute:

1. Pick a view. Choose the Hitting, Pitching, or Combined tab at the top.
2. Sort. Click any column header. The board opens sorted by Rank (best at the top); click WAR, wRC+, K%, or any other column to re-sort.
3. Narrow it down. Use the Age / Level / Team / Pos filters, or flip on Prospects Only to drop established big leaguers.
4. Open a player. Click any row to open the full player popup: bio, projections, trends, and (for tracked prospects) the card market.
5. Playing on Fantrax? Click ⚡ Fantrax Sync to filter to just your league’s free agents, or a rival’s roster. See the Fantrax Sync guide.

Reading the output

The three tabs

Hitting and Pitching rank players within their group. Combined puts hitters and pitchers on a single value scale, so you can compare a bat directly against an arm.

Hitting columns

Pitching columns

Not sure what a stat means? Every term lives in the Glossary.

Combined columns

Rank, Prospect Rank, Player, WAR, Summary, with a one-line Summary read on each player.

Sorting

Click a header to sort; click it again to flip direction. The board is smart about defaults: ranks and the “lower is better” stats (ERA, WHIP, K%, BB%) sort ascending, and everything else sorts descending, so the best players land on top either way.

Controls

• Rank Type – changes what the board is ranked by. STS (the OOPSY composite, default), MLB (re-ranks by projected WAR), or a custom scoring option that re-ranks hitters by category-based scoring rather than overall value (the kind of categories a 5×5 league uses; see the popup’s Overall row).
• Regression (default 100%) – tunes how much the model regresses a player’s projection toward typical outcomes. It changes the projected stats you see, not the rank (ranks always use fully-regressed data, by design). Lower it to see a player’s less-regressed line; if the numbers jump, a small sample is what’s currently holding the projection down.
• Exp. PT (Expected Playing Time) – a toggle that scales each player’s projected volume (counting stats like HR and SB, plus WAR) by how much they’re actually expected to play, drawn from their last five seasons of playing time and their current injury status. Durable everyday players hold or modestly gain volume; part-time or injured players get discounted. Rate stats are never touched (wRC+, BA, ERA, K%, and so on), since playing time doesn’t change per-opportunity quality. With it on, the board re-ranks hitters (and the Combined view) on the playing-time-adjusted values and shows each player’s expected plate appearances.
• PA (default 600, hitters) – sets the plate-appearance baseline that counting stats are projected over. 600 is roughly a full season; lower it for a part-time role (e.g., 450 for a platoon bat). (Exp. PT, above, instead sets this per player automatically from real playing time.)
• Rank slider – a two-handle min/max window. Drag the handles to show only a rank range (e.g., just the top 100, or ranks 50-150).
• Prospects Only – hides established MLB players; the Rank column switches to Prospect Rank.
• Name search and the Age / Level / Team / Pos multi-filters; each shows a count when active, and Clear resets one.
• My Lists / Upload CSV – save named player lists and filter the board to them, or filter by a Fantrax CSV export. (See the Saved Lists guide.)

Row markers

• Injury badge next to a name: IL-10 / IL-15 / IL-60 / DTD, with minor-league stints shown muted. Hover or tap for the level, the injury, and the estimated return date. (See Injury Badges.)
• ★ Watchlist / ✓ Owned glyphs: save a player to your watchlist or mark a card owned right from the row. (Your watchlist appears under My Lists; see Saved Lists.)
• Share: capture a clean image of a player’s card to post or send.

The player popup

Click any row to open it. Three swipeable pages:

1. Bio & Stats – headshot, team, STS Rank / WAR / Prospect Rank pills, an Overall row translating the player’s value into common scoring formats (e.g., 5×5), scout-grade equivalencies, and a stats block comparing the 2026 projection against Last 30 and Last 7. Expand a season in the Career Actuals table to see level-by-level lines.
2. Trends – percentile sliders, a rank-change strip (1d / 3d / 7d / 14d / 30d), and a rank-trend chart you can switch between overall and prospect rank and zoom to 30 / 90 / 180 / all.
3. Card Market (only for prospects with tracked cards) – the card’s current market price, the model’s expected price, and a Buy/Sell Index read with a plain-language recommendation, plus a price-history chart. Save the card to your watchlist or collection, or jump straight to Hobby Advantage. (See BSI in the Glossary.)

Navigate with the on-screen arrows, the left/right arrow keys, a swipe on mobile, or Esc to close.

Pro moves

• Catch risers before the market. Open a player and watch the rank-change strip on the Trends page; players climbing fast over the last 7 / 14 / 30 days are often still undervalued by leaguemates who haven’t noticed the move yet. Buy in before the rest of the league catches on. (For established MLB players, the board also flags buy signals based on wRC+ directly.)
• Mine your league’s free agents. Connect Fantrax, set Ownership to Free Agents, then sort by WAR or Prospect Rank to surface the best upside nobody owns.
• Pressure-test the projections. Lowering Regression changes the projected stats but not the rank (ranks always use fully-regressed data, by design). If a player’s numbers jump when you lower regression, his limited sample is what’s pulling the projection down; because the rank is built on fully-regressed numbers, a player like that often has room to climb as his track record grows.
• Settle bat-vs-arm decisions. Use the Combined tab to compare a hitter and a pitcher on one value scale.
• Workload-adjust counting stats. For a quick, automatic version of playing-time realism, flip on Exp. PT: it sets each player’s counting-stat baseline from their actual five-year playing time and current injury status, so everyday players keep their volume while part-timers and injured players get discounted, all without touching the PA slider. Prefer a single fixed number for everyone? Use the PA slider instead.
• Catch the hobby angle. When a prospect’s Card Market page flags STRONG BUY, the model thinks the market is underpricing the same player you’re evaluating on the field.

Gotchas & FAQ

• The numbers differ from OOPSY Current. Expected; Peak projects a career-best season, while Current projects the rest of this season.
• A player I roster shows as a Free Agent. Fantrax matching is deliberately conservative: if a name can’t be matched unambiguously, it’s left unmatched rather than mis-assigned. Re-sync after roster moves; details in the Fantrax Sync guide.
• Some prospects have thin or missing career stats. Many lower-level players (especially those who haven’t reached the majors) have limited actuals on file. The projection still ranks them.
• I don’t see the Card Market page on a player. Page 3 only appears for prospects with tracked cards in Hobby Advantage.

Related tools

• OOPSY Current – same model, rest-of-season horizon.
• Trade Analyzer – turn these valuations into trade math.
• Roster Manager – manage the team you’re filtering by.
• Hobby Advantage – the card market behind the popup’s Page 3.
• Shared references: Glossary, Fantrax Sync, Player Popup, Filters & Sorting, Injury Badges, Saved Lists, Share & Export

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Tooltip Spec

Micro-copy to surface as in-page “?” tooltips. Implement in the OOPSY Peak tool chat.

What it is

OOPSY Current ranks players by their projected rest-of-this-season production. It’s the same OOPSY model as OOPSY Peak, pointed at a different question: not a player’s career ceiling, but what to expect from them right now, this season.

Reach for Peak when you’re weighing long-term dynasty value, and Current when you’re making in-season calls: win-now trades, waiver pickups, streaming, and weekly lineups.

Where to find it

• Menu: OOPSY Model → OOPSY Current
• Direct: scoutthestatline.com/oopsy-current
• Access: A signed-in STS account is required, the same as the rest of the leaderboards.

Quickstart

1. Pick a view. Choose the Hitting or Pitching tab.
2. Sort. Click Rank, or any column header.
3. Narrow it down. Use the Age / Level / Team / Pos filters or Prospects Only. (See Filters & Sorting.)
4. Read the buy/sell dot. The colored dot to the left of each name flags who to target or move (below).
5. Open a player. Click any row for the full player popup.
6. Playing on Fantrax? Click ⚡ Fantrax Sync to filter by ownership. (See Fantrax Sync.)

What’s different from OOPSY Peak

Most of the board works exactly like OOPSY Peak: the same filters, sorting, player popup, injury badges, saved lists, and Fantrax Sync (all covered in the shared guides). The differences:

• Horizon. Rest-of-season, not career peak. Every projected number reflects how a player is expected to do from here.
• Built-in Buy/Sell signal. A colored dot next to each name flags who’s over- or under-performing their projection (below). This is the headline feature.
• Rest-of-Season toggle. Scale counting stats to the part of the season that’s left (below).
• Two tabs only. Hitting and Pitching; there’s no Combined view here.
• No Exp. PT toggle. The playing-time overlay is currently an OOPSY Peak feature. (The PA slider and Rank slider are both here, working the same as on Peak.)
• Custom Rank offers STS or WAR (Peak’s alternative is labeled MLB).

The Buy/Sell Index (BSI)

This is what OOPSY Current is built around. A colored dot to the left of each player’s name compares how they’re actually doing this season to how the model projects them:

• For hitters, it compares current-season wRC+ to projected wRC+.
• For pitchers, it compares current-season ERA to projected ERA.
• The bigger the gap, the stronger the signal.

A faded dot means the player has a small sample so far (hitters 50-99 PA; pitchers 30-49 IP), so read it with extra caution. Filter to a band to round up buy or sell candidates fast. (See BSI in the Glossary.)

Rest-of-Season toggle

By default, the board shows full-season-rate projections. Turn on Rest of Season to multiply counting stats by the fraction of the season that’s left, so the numbers reflect only the production still to come, which is the right lens for a stretch-run pickup. The toggle auto-disables outside the regular season.

Pro moves

• Buy low on a slumping star. Filter the buy/sell signal to Strong Buy / Buy and look at rostered players: quality bats and arms underperforming their projection, whose managers may be ready to sell cheap.
• Sell high before regression. Filter to Sell / Strong Sell and check your own roster for players outperforming their projection. Shop them while their value is peaked.
• Build a stretch-run shopping list. Turn on Rest of Season, connect Fantrax, set Ownership to Free Agents, and sort by the category you need. You’ll see the best remaining value still on waivers.
• Cross-check with Peak before a dynasty trade. A player who’s a Current “Sell” but still a top dynasty name on Peak may just be in a cold stretch, not declining. Use both boards before you decide.

Gotchas & FAQ

• The numbers differ from OOPSY Peak. Expected; Current is rest-of-season, Peak is a career-best season.
• A player has no buy/sell dot. The signal needs enough current-season sample. Very low-sample or non-MLB players may not show a band yet.
• The dot is faded. Small sample so far (hitters 50-99 PA; pitchers 30-49 IP); the signal firms up as the player accumulates playing time.
• Rest of Season is greyed out. It auto-disables outside the regular-season window.

Related tools

• OOPSY Peak – same model, career-peak horizon.
• Trade Analyzer – turn a win-now read into trade math.
• Roster Manager – manage the team you’re filtering by.
• Shared references: Glossary, Fantrax Sync, Player Popup, Filters & Sorting, Injury Badges, Saved Lists

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What it is

Player Pulse ranks hitters by how valuable they’ve actually been recently, not by a projection that ingests data spanning several years. It takes raw production over a rolling window and adjusts the ranking for the context that makes stats hard to compare: what level a player is at, how young they are for that level, and how hitter-friendly their park is.

That fills the gap between the projection boards. OOPSY Peak answers “how good will this player be at their best,” OOPSY Current answers “what should I expect the rest of this season,” and Player Pulse answers “who’s hot right now, and is it real once you account for context?”

Player Pulse currently covers hitters.

Where to find it

• Direct: scoutthestatline.com/player-pulse
• Menu: with the OOPSY tools in the main navigation
• Access: A signed-in STS account is required, the same as the other leaderboards.

Quickstart

1. Pick a window. Choose the 7 Day, 30 Day, or Season tab.
2. Sort. Click Rank, or any column header.
3. Narrow it down. Filter by Team or Level, or flip on Prospects Only.
4. (Season tab) Switch the view. Use the Actuals / Projections toggle to flip between raw season stats and the peak projection (built from this season’s data).
5. Open a player. Click any row for the full popup, including their Peak and Current outlook.

Reading the output

The three windows

• 7 Day / 30 Day show recent production over that rolling window. The stats on screen (BA, OBP, SLG, HR, SB, R, RBI) are raw actuals from that window. A short window is too small to project, so the numbers are exactly what happened.
• Season shows season-to-date, and adds an Actuals / Projections toggle. The Projections view shows a peak projection (the same career-best projection as OOPSY Peak), but built from this season’s data alone rather than the multi-year history the main Peak board uses. It’s offered on the Season tab because by then the sample is large enough to be meaningful.

The key idea: the Rank is context-adjusted

The numbers on screen are raw, but the Rank is not. Pulse ranks players with an OOPSY-adjusted score that accounts for level, age for that level, and park, then blends recent home runs, steals, runs, RBI, and wRC+.

That’s what lets a 21-year-old tearing up Double-A be compared directly to a veteran raking in the majors: a gaudy raw line in a hitter-friendly park at a low level won’t out-rank genuine, context-adjusted production. On the Season window the rank also factors batted-ball quality (bat speed, exit velocity, sprint speed) for extra signal; the shorter windows stick to window performance plus context, so a player’s career-long tools don’t prop up a cold week.

Columns

Columns include name, team, level, age, Rank, PA, and the window’s batting line and counting stats (HR, SB, R, RBI). On the Season tab with Projections on, the peak-projected line replaces the raw one. (See the Glossary for any stat.)

Controls

• Window tabs – 7 Day, 30 Day, Season.
• Team and Level filters – multi-select; check any combination. (See Filters & Sorting.)
• Prospects Only – shows only prospect-eligible players and re-ranks among them.
• Actuals / Projections (Season tab) – switch between raw season stats and the peak projection built from this season’s data.
• Name search, sortable columns, and pagination all work like the other boards.

Pro moves

• Spot real breakouts, not park mirages. Sort by Rank on the 7 or 30 Day window with Prospects Only on. Because the rank already adjusts for level, age, and park, the names at the top are genuinely producing, not just feasting on a weak environment.
• Separate signal from a hot streak. A player can post a loud raw line but a modest rank if the context is soft. Trust the rank for “is this real,” and the raw stats for “what just happened.”
• Cross-check a riser against Peak. A hitter surging on the 30 Day Pulse who’s also climbing on OOPSY Peak is one the model is starting to believe in: a strong buy-before-the-market candidate.
• Use the Season toggle as a reality check. Flip to Projections on the Season tab to compare a player’s raw line against the peak projection the model builds from this season’s data, a quick check on whether a hot season reflects real skill or is likely to cool off.

Gotchas & FAQ

• The recent windows show raw stats, not projections. By design. A 7-day, 25-PA sample is too small to project, so Pulse shows what actually happened and lets the Rank carry the context adjustment.
• A just-promoted player only shows their MLB time. When a player is called up mid-window, Pulse keeps their major-league line and sets aside their pre-call-up minor-league stats from that window, since their MLB performance is the relevant signal.
• It’s hitters only right now. Pitching is a future addition.
• The 7 and 30 Day windows need history to fill in. Early in a stretch (or early in the season), a window builds up as daily snapshots accumulate.

Related tools

• OOPSY Peak – career-peak projections.
• OOPSY Current – rest-of-season projections.
• Player Popup – the player detail view.
• Shared references: Filters & Sorting, Glossary

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What it is

The Roster Manager pulls in your Fantrax league and your team, then turns your roster into something you can act on: where you stand in the league, your best possible lineup, a graded depth chart, free-agent upgrade ideas, head-to-head comparisons, and a read on whether you should be contending or rebuilding. Every value comes from the OOPSY model, so it’s the same valuation engine behind OOPSY Peak and the Trade Analyzer.

Where to find it

• Direct: scoutthestatline.com/roster-manager
• Menu: in the main navigation
• Access: A signed-in STS account and a connected Fantrax league are both required (see below).

Getting connected

Roster Manager runs on your Fantrax data, so connecting is step one:

1. Click ⚡ Fantrax Sync and paste your Fantrax Secret ID. (See the Fantrax Sync guide for where to find it; it’s a one-time step shared across STS.)
2. Pick your League, then your Team.
3. Set how players are valued (the two settings below).
4. Work through the tabs.

Two settings that shape everything

Two dropdowns control how every value and ranking is calculated:

• Scoring – Fantasy (OOPSY fantasy value, the default) or MLB (WAR) (real-life WAR, with a real-life rank). Fantasy is the dynasty lens most managers want; WAR is the real-baseball view.
• Strategy – Rebuilding (Peak) values every player at their peak, treating a far-off prospect the same as a ready contributor. Win Now (Adjusted) discounts players who are years from helping, so a stashed prospect is worth less than an MLB regular today. The adjustment applies in Fantasy mode and shows the discount as a percentage next to the value.

The seven tabs

My Leagues

Your standings view. For your synced league, see where you currently stand and where the OOPSY model projects you to finish, along with your record and which way you’re trending. It’s the quick gut-check on whether to push for it or start selling.

My Roster

Your whole team in one sortable table: player, position, age, level, value, rank, and 7-day rank change, with your total roster value up top. Filter by level (MLB / MiLB) or by position.

Lineup

Your optimal starting lineup, built for you. The optimizer reads your league’s actual lineup slots from Fantrax and each player’s position eligibility (including multi-position players), then fills the best possible lineup and totals its value. If it can’t read your league’s exact slot rules, it falls back to a standard setup and flags it with a “(default config)” label so you know to double-check.

Depth Chart

Your roster laid out by position, with each spot graded A through F based on your best player there. It’s the fastest way to see where you’re stacked and where you’re thin, an F at shortstop tells you your next move. Each card shows your top players at the position with their level, age, and ETA.

Swap Shop

Free-agent upgrade recommendations: the top available players in your league ranked by OOPSY value, each tagged with how much they’d upgrade your current best at that position (or “fills empty slot”). Filter by level and position to zero in on a need. From a recommendation you can compare the free agent head-to-head against a player on your roster and pull up a Drop/Add receipt that lays out who’s out, who’s in, and the value swing.

Team Compare

Pick any rival and compare rosters side by side: total value, hitting, pitching, MLB roster, farm system, and average age, plus a position-by-position grid showing who wins each spot. A quick scouting report before you make an offer.

Roster Health

The big-picture read on your team. A championship-window verdict (Open, Contender, Aging, or Rebuilding) with a one-line strategy, your league rank by total value, your age distribution, roster composition (MLB vs. farm, hitters vs. pitchers), and your biggest risers and fallers over the last 30 days.

Pro moves

• Find your real weakness fast. Start on Depth Chart; your lowest grade is your priority. Then jump to Swap Shop, filtered to that position, for the best available fix, and use the Drop/Add receipt to see the net gain.
• Set your best lineup in one click. The Lineup tab does the position math for you, including multi-eligible players, so you’re not hand-solving who plays where.
• Match your strategy to your window. Let My Leagues and Roster Health tell you whether you’re contending or rebuilding, then set Strategy accordingly so every value reflects your actual timeline.
• Scout before you offer. Use Team Compare on a trade target to see exactly where they’re strong and weak, then build the deal in the Trade Analyzer.
• Win-now reality check. Flip Strategy to Win Now to see what your far-off prospects are really worth to a contender. It’s a sobering, useful adjustment when you’re pushing for a title.

Gotchas & FAQ

• You have to connect Fantrax. Roster Manager is built on your league’s data, so it can’t do anything until you’ve synced and picked your league and team. (See Fantrax Sync.)
• Lineup shows “(default config)”. STS couldn’t read your league’s exact lineup slots from Fantrax, so it’s using a standard default. The optimizer still works; just confirm the slots match your league’s settings.
• Values look different in WAR mode. Switching Scoring to MLB (WAR) changes both the value and the rank to real-life WAR. Switch back to Fantasy for the dynasty lens.
• My prospects are suddenly worth less. That’s the Win Now (Adjusted) strategy applying a time discount. Rebuilding (Peak) values them at full peak.
• Swap Shop doesn’t match my waiver wire exactly. It uses your league’s ownership from the last sync; re-sync after roster moves.

Related tools

• Trade Analyzer – build and grade the deals Roster Manager points you toward.
• OOPSY Peak – the valuations behind every number here.
• Fantrax Sync – connect your league.
• Shared reference: Glossary

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What it is

Power Rankings takes your whole Fantrax league and ranks every team by total OOPSY value, so you can see the real pecking order, not the standings, but the talent. The top three teams get medals, and each team breaks down into its hitters, pitchers, and (on the Farm tab) draft picks. It’s the league-wide companion to the Roster Manager, which focuses on just your team.

Where to find it

• Menu: in the main navigation
• Access: Requires a connected Fantrax league (see below).

Getting connected

Power Rankings reads your league from Fantrax, so connecting comes first:

1. Paste your Fantrax Secret ID and click Sync Account. (See the Fantrax Sync guide for where to find it.)
2. Pick your league from the dropdown.
3. STS crunches every roster and ranks the league.

The two tabs

• Power Rankings – teams ranked by overall roster strength (hitters plus pitchers). Who’s best right now.
• Farm System – teams ranked by their future assets (farm prospects plus draft picks). Who’s loaded for later.

Comparing the two tells you a lot: a team near the top of Power Rankings but the bottom of Farm System is win-now and thin on the future, and vice versa.

Reading a team card

Each team is ranked with its total value; tap to expand it for:

• a Hitters and Pitchers value split (plus a Draft Picks value on the Farm tab),
• the team’s Top 3 Hitters and Top 3 Pitchers (and Top 3 Picks on the Farm tab).

Scoring toggle

Switch how value is measured:

• Fantasy – OOPSY fantasy value (the dynasty lens).
• MLB – real-life WAR.

Export

📸 Export Image captures the rankings as a clean image to post or share with your league.

How it connects to the Trade Analyzer

Power Rankings sets each team’s projected finish, which becomes the projected draft order (weaker teams pick earlier). The Trade Analyzer uses those projected slots to value future draft picks, so the two tools stay in sync.

Pro moves

• Spot the real contenders. The Power Rankings tab cuts through luck-driven standings to show who actually has the strongest roster.
• Find a trade partner. A team strong on the Power tab but weak on Farm is a win-now club that may pay a premium in prospects, and the reverse is a rebuilder happy to move MLB pieces.
• Sanity-check your own spot. See where you land before deciding whether to push or sell, then take targets into the Trade Analyzer.

Gotchas & FAQ

• You have to connect Fantrax. Power Rankings is built on your league’s rosters, so it needs a synced league to show anything. (See Fantrax Sync.)
• Rankings differ from the standings. That’s the point. This ranks talent and roster value, not win-loss record.
• Values change with the scoring toggle. MLB switches everything to real-life WAR; Fantasy is the dynasty value lens.

Related tools

• Roster Manager – the same league view, focused on your team.
• Trade Analyzer – uses the projected draft slots from these rankings.
• OOPSY Peak – the valuations behind the team scores.
• Fantrax Sync – connect your league.
• Shared reference: Glossary

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What it is

The Trade Analyzer values both sides of a fantasy trade with the OOPSY model and tells you who comes out ahead, and by how much. Build a deal between two teams or as many as six, include players and draft picks, and get an instant verdict with the reasoning behind it. It runs on the same OOPSY Peak valuations as the rest of STS, with adjustments for prospect timelines and roster-spot consolidation.

Where to find it

• Direct: scoutthestatline.com/trade-analyzer
• Menu: in the main navigation
• Access: Building and analyzing trades work on their own; sign in to save trades, load them later, and sync your Fantrax league.

Quickstart

1. Set the teams. Start with two sides; add up to six.
2. Add the pieces. Drop players and draft picks onto each side.
3. Analyze. Hit Analyze Trade.
4. Read the verdict. See who it favors, by how much, and why.

Connected to Fantrax? Pick your league first to pull in real rosters and picks.

Building a trade

• Teams – start with two sides and add up to six for multi-team deals. In 3-or-more-team trades, each recipient’s incoming group collapses to keep things readable.
• Players – search and add players to each side. Pills show headshots and a trend arrow for hitters; on mobile, a full-screen browser makes picking easy.
• Draft picks – add picks to either side. Pick values account for how steep the pick curve is, how far out the pick is, and the team’s projected draft slot (from Power Rankings). You can edit a projected pick’s slot if you disagree.
• Fantrax – connect your league to load real rosters, draft picks, and ownership, so you’re trading actual assets. (See the Fantrax Sync guide.) Your league’s power rankings appear in an inline accordion under the league selector.

The verdict

After you analyze, you get:

• a headline read (a balanced, “EVEN” deal, or which side it favors),
• a value bar and margin % showing the size of the edge, and
• an expandable Why breakdown so you can see exactly how the values add up.

Tune Model

The Tune Model button opens three sliders that change how the trade math works. Defaults keep the standard behavior, each slider shows its effective curve so the impact is tangible, and your settings are remembered:

• Pick Steepness (0.5x to 2.0x, default 1.0x) – how much more the top picks are worth relative to later ones. Flatter narrows the gap; steeper widens it.
• Pick Yearly Decay (0% to 30%, default 15%) – how much a future-year pick loses per year out. Set it to 0% to value next year’s picks like this year’s.
• Consolidation Tax (0% to 150%, default 100%) – the penalty for deals that hand you extra roster spots (giving up two or three players for one better one). Turn it off to ignore the value of roster spots entirely.

How the model values things

Two adjustments are baked in, each with an info popover in the tool:

• Time-Value discount – prospects far from the majors are discounted by level, since a player years away is worth less now than one already producing.
• Consolidation Tax – packaging several players for one star nets you open roster spots, which carry value; the tax accounts for that (the Tune Model slider controls how heavy it is).

Values are OOPSY peak (dynasty) by default. A dynasty/redraft toggle is planned but not yet available.

Model Matchmaker

No deal in mind? Model Matchmaker generates trade ideas built around your strategy:

• Contender – trade youth for league-winning MLB assets
• Reloader – move older bats and picks for younger MLB players
• Rebuilder – send vets to acquire prospects and picks
• Scout the League – find the best fits by complementary roster shapes

Add optional target positions, pin players you want involved, and re-shuffle for fresh ideas. Apply to Trade drops a suggestion straight into the builder and analyzes it.

More tools inside

• Scenarios A / B / C – compare up to three versions of a trade side by side in one session.
• Save / Load – store a trade to your account and pull it back up later.
• Compare Players – jump to a head-to-head player comparison (shared with Roster Manager).
• Export – capture the verdict card as an image to copy or download.
• Shareable link – every trade gets a ?t= URL you can send.
• Injury badges appear on players, same as the leaderboards.

Pro moves

• Check fairness before you send. Build the deal, analyze, and open Why; if the margin is small and the breakdown looks reasonable, it’s a fair offer.
• Let Matchmaker do the legwork. Set your strategy and target positions, then Apply the best idea and tweak from there.
• Match the math to your timeline. Contending? The Time-Value discount already tilts toward win-now assets. Rebuilding? Prospects and picks hold their value.
• Pressure-test pick-heavy deals. Use Tune Model to see how sensitive a trade is to pick steepness and decay before you commit.

Gotchas & FAQ

• Values are dynasty (peak) for now. The Trade Analyzer uses OOPSY peak valuations; a dynasty/redraft toggle is planned but not live.
• Sign in to save and to use Fantrax. Building and analyzing work without an account, but saving trades and pulling real rosters need you signed in.
• Picks need a slot. Future picks are valued from a projected draft slot (via Power Rankings); edit the slot if you disagree with it.
• Tune Model changed my numbers. The sliders re-value the whole trade live. Hit Reset to Defaults to get back to standard.

Related tools

• Roster Manager – find the needs and targets you bring here.
• OOPSY Peak – the valuations behind the trade math.
• Fantrax Sync – load real rosters and picks.
• Shared references: Glossary, Share & Export

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What it is

Rankings Builder is your personal ranking board. Start from the STS player pool (or import an existing ranking), drag players into the order you want, group them into tiers, attach your own scout grades and notes, and save the whole thing to your account. It’s how you turn STS data into your board, your way, for trades, drafts, or just tracking your reads through the season.

Where to find it

• Menu: in the main navigation
• Access: A signed-in STS account is required; your rankings save to your account.

Quickstart

1. Add players. Search the pool and tap a player to add them, or use Import to pull in an STS ranking or paste a list.
2. Reorder. Drag players into the order you want; the rank numbers update as you go.
3. Tier them. Tap Tier Break to drop a divider and group players into tiers.
4. Name and save. Give your ranking a name and hit Save.
5. (Optional) Export a clean, shareable image.

Building your ranking

The player pool

On the left, search and browse every player in the STS database:

• Search by name and tap to add.
• Toggle the pool between All and Prospects.
• ⚙ Filter by Team, Position, and Level.
• Sort the pool by STS rank or WAR.

Tap any pool player to drop them into your ranking.

Import a starting point

📋 Import seeds your list two ways: pull in an STS ranking (a leaderboard order) to build from, or paste a list of names. It’s the fast way to start from the OOPSY board and then make it your own.

Order, tier, and annotate

• Drag to reorder; the rank numbers update automatically.
• ➕ Tier Break drops a divider so you can group players into tiers (elite, strong, depth, and so on). 🗑 Tiers clears them.
• Attach scout grades and notes to any player to capture your own read.
• Remove a player with the × on their row.
• A changelog tracks what you’ve moved since your last save.

Save, load, and export

• 💾 Save stores the ranking under its name, to your account.
• Open Saved Rankings to load or manage your past lists.
• 📸 Export turns your ranking into a clean image you can share.

See who’s available (Fantrax, optional)

Connect Fantrax to layer ownership onto the pool. Each player shows whether they’re a free agent (green), on your team (blue), or taken (grey), so you can build a ranking around who you can actually get. (See the Fantrax Sync guide.)

Pro moves

• Start from a board, then make it yours. Import the OOPSY Peak or Player Pulse order, then drag, tier, and annotate to reflect your own view.
• Tier for trades. Group players into tiers, then treat players within a tier as roughly interchangeable when you negotiate, a quick gut-check on whether a deal is fair.
• Build a draft board. Use tiers and scout notes to prep a startup or rookie draft, and connect Fantrax to grey out players already gone.
• Keep one source of truth. Save a master ranking and update it through the season; the changelog shows what moved since last time.

Gotchas & FAQ

• You need to be signed in. Rankings save to your STS account, so log in first.
• Export is disabled until you’ve added players. Add at least one player to turn on 📸 Export.
• Fantrax ownership is optional. The builder works fine without it; connecting Fantrax just adds the ownership badges to the pool.

Related tools

• OOPSY Peak, OOPSY Current, Player Pulse – ranking sources you can import and build from.
• Fantrax Sync – add ownership to the pool.
• Shared reference: Glossary

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What it is

Hobby Advantage is STS’s card-market tool. It tracks prices for baseball cards and, for each one, compares the current market price to the model’s expected price to give you a clear buy or sell read. The pricing is grounded in recent real-world sales, and the expected value is tied to the same OOPSY player projections that power the rest of STS, so a card’s worth tracks the player’s actual outlook, not just hobby hype.

It’s the tool behind the Card Market page in the leaderboard player popup: save a card there and it shows up here, and vice versa.

Where to find it

• Direct: scoutthestatline.com/hobby-advantage
• Menu: in the main navigation
• Access: Anyone can browse and search. Sign in to track cards in your collection (Wishlist and Owned).

Quickstart

1. Browse or search. Use the search box (player, team, or set) or the filters to find cards.
2. Read the BSI. The BSI column flags each card as a buy, hold, or sell.
3. Open a card. Click any row for the full detail: current vs. expected price, why, the player’s outlook, and a price history chart.
4. (Signed in) Track it. Tap the ★ to wishlist a card or the ✓ to mark it owned.

Reading the card list

The hobby leaderboard ranks cards, with these columns:

Each row also shows ★ Wishlist and ✓ Owned glyphs (signed-in users); tap a glyph to toggle it without opening the card.

Filters and sorting: a quick All / Buy / Hold / Sell filter narrows the board to a signal, and Team, Set, Level, Pos, and My Cards filters narrow it further. Click any sortable column header to sort.

The Buy/Sell Index (BSI)

BSI is the heart of Hobby Advantage. It compares a card’s current price to its expected price and lands it in a band:

• Strong Buy / Buy – priced below the model’s expected value (a deal).
• Hold – roughly in line with expected.
• Sell / Strong Sell – priced above expected (a good time to move it).

The percentage shows how far the current price sits from expected, so you can gauge the size of the gap at a glance. Expected value comes from the player’s OOPSY projection and the card’s characteristics, and Current reflects recent real-world sale prices. Cards without enough recent sales to read confidently show no BSI signal rather than a misleading one.

The card detail popup

Click any card to open its detail popup:

• a hero row showing Current price, the BSI verdict (percentage and band), and Expected price side by side,
• a plain-language narrative explaining the read,
• the player’s OOPSY peak projection and scout grades, so you can see the on-field value behind the card,
• a 90-day price history chart,
• a 1st Bowman tag where it applies, and
• ★ Wishlist / ✓ Owned buttons, plus a way to share the card as an image.

My Collection

Signed-in users get a personal collection that lives across the board and the card popups:

• ★ Wishlist – cards you’re watching or hunting.
• ✓ Owned – cards you have. For an owned card you can record what you paid (your cost basis), the date you got it, the quantity, and notes.

Because every card carries a live market price, your collection lets you track what you paid against what your cards are worth now, so you can see how your holdings are trending. Use the My Cards filter to pull the board down to On Wishlist or I Own any time.

Pro moves

• Hunt the deals. Set the quick filter to Buy (or Strong Buy) and sort by BSI to surface the most underpriced cards on the board.
• Sell into strength. Filter your Owned cards and look for Sell signals, the cards the market is currently overpaying for.
• Buy the player, sell the hype. Check the Overall grade and Peak Projection before buying; a buy signal on a player the model loves is a much better bet than one on a fading name.
• Track first, buy later. Wishlist cards you’re eyeing and watch the 30-day trend and price history before pulling the trigger.
• Watch your collection’s value. Mark cards Owned with what you paid, then keep an eye on current price versus your cost to see how your collection is doing.

Gotchas & FAQ

• Prices come from recent real sales. Current value reflects actual market activity, so it moves as the market moves.
• Some cards show no BSI. A card needs enough recent sales to price confidently; thin-data cards show no signal instead of a shaky one.
• Sign in to save cards. Browsing is open to everyone, but Wishlist and Owned need you logged in.
• Parallels are priced individually. Each parallel of a card (a specific colored version, for example) is tracked and priced on its own.

Related tools

• OOPSY Peak – the player projections behind every expected price; its Card Market page links straight here.
• Player Popup – where cards surface alongside a player’s profile.
• Glossary – see BSI, BSI bands, and Expected price.
• Share & Export – capture a card to share.

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What STS publishes

Beyond the interactive tools, STS puts out a steady stream of data-driven content: game recaps, daily team farm reports, and a full slate of daily email newsletters. Every piece is generated automatically from the same OOPSY model and live leaderboards, so the ranks and projections in an article or email always match what you’ll find in the tools. Performers are cross-referenced to their STS rank and projection throughout, which is what separates an STS recap from a box score.

Recap articles

Auto-published to the site, recapping who performed and putting it in STS context (each player tagged with their rank and projection):

• Daily Top Performers (MLB + MiLB) – yesterday’s best hitters and pitchers across the majors and the full-season minor-league levels (AAA down through the complex and DSL). Also sent as a same-day email (below).
• NCAA Daily – the top college performances, with an eye toward the draft.
• Weekly (MLB & MiLB) – the top performers aggregated and ranked over the past week.
• Monthly (MLB & MiLB) – the same, aggregated and ranked over the past month.

Free vs. member: MLB recaps are public. Prospect/MiLB and College recaps are member-only.

Down on the Farm (daily farm reports)

A daily deep-dive into one organization’s farm system. The series cycles through all 30 MLB teams over the course of a month (one per day), with a league-wide Top 100 prospects edition on the 31st. Every report is powered by OOPSY peak projections and includes:

• a snapshot of the system: how many top-100 prospects the team has, the average prospect age, and the #1 prospect,
• the org’s top 10 prospects (headshots, scout grades, projected WAR, and a scouting summary), plus an expandable 11-30,
• a future depth chart by position, built from peak projections,
• a projected rotation and bullpen, and
• the system’s top prospects by tool (hit, power, speed for bats; stuff, command, arm for arms).

It’s the fastest way to read where a team’s future is deep, thin, or trending up. Each report posts under its own team category, so you can follow a single org over time.

The daily newsletters

STS emails a themed newsletter every day of the week, plus a same-day recap email. Most include a Prospect of the Day spotlight, and each one is built live from the leaderboards, Player Pulse, and Hobby Advantage the morning it goes out, so the data is always current.

How to get it

• Articles and farm reports publish on the site. The public ones (MLB recaps and the farm reports) are