How the numbers work
Price from these books re-derives every line from only the sportsbooks you tick. Narrowing to one book drops any stat that book does not post, so totals fall — Drake Maye reads 9.7 on the full consensus but 2.8 on DraftKings alone, because DK prices his rushing yards and not his passing. That is the filter working. Leave every book ticked for the best projection; untick to ask what one book thinks.
Hover any chip under a player to see each book by name with its own number. A dotted underline marks the stats books disagree on. A chip marked ≈ is not a market price at all — it is a season projection divided by 17, used when the only thing anyone priced was a touchdown.
A row tagged TD ONLY is one of those: a book priced that player's touchdown and nothing else, so the market has an opinion on whether he scores and none on how much he does. Everything behind the total is a season estimate. It is on the row because a total looks the same either way — Justin Jefferson read 17.6 in week 4 with only his touchdown actually priced. An injury tag beside it usually explains why. A row reading EST instead is the rarer case where some other mix of stats is missing. Either way the projection itself is written ≈14.3.
A player whose game has kicked off is locked: his actual points show, his slot is spent, and the optimizer fills only what is still changeable.
Anything the market has not priced is listed separately rather than scored as zero. An unpriced player is a gap in coverage, not a projection of nothing — and midweek there are a lot of them, because books do not post most Sunday props until Thursday night.
How to read the lineup
The useful part is the difference from what you have set now. Players the optimizer would start who are currently benched are marked SWAP IN; starters it would bench are marked SITTING. If nothing is marked, your lineup is already optimal.
A player whose game has kicked off is locked and listed separately — his points are banked, so the lineup above covers only who is left to play.
A projection written ≈14.3 leans on a season estimate: no book has priced that player’s yardage or receptions this week, usually only his touchdown (the TD ONLY tag). Hover it for how much is estimated. The lineup total says the same for the whole lineup. These numbers firm up as books post lines, which most do by Sunday.
Kickers and defenses are projected from the game line rather than player props, which no book posts for them. A team’s implied points come from the spread and total; for a defense that drives the points-allowed buckets, and sacks and takeaways scale with how big a favourite it is. Your league’s own D/ST and kicker scoring is applied.
Best available reads every roster in the league, so whoever is left over is a free agent. They are ranked by the upgrade they would add to your optimal lineup, not by raw points — an unrostered QB tops any points list while being worthless to a team that already starts one. Kickers and defenses are capped at two each, since they cluster within a point or two and would otherwise crowd out real pickups.
What is counted
Only players who can still change a result appear — a starter whose game has finished is history however he did. The Swings column counts how many of your matchups he moves the same way, which is what puts him at the top.
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