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With this in mind, we’ve begun a “Trend of the Day” series. Every weekday we’ll walk our subscribers through an important trend for that day’s slate of games.

When I pulled up our Player Models page this morning, the first thing that struck me was how much green there was. From matchups to prices, we’ve got a small slate that will have some really exploitable situations. In an attempt to flesh out some value tonight, I want to test out two of our more powerful metrics in tandem, as I believe they’re natural partners.

Today’s Trend will focus on players that have both a high Bargain Rating and Pro Trend Rating, which should provide us with a population of players with exploitable prices in positive situations.

Trend: Players with High Bargain and Pro Trend Ratings

Step 1: Projections > Proj Minutes > Set to “25 to 48”

Step 2: Trends > Bargain Rating > Set to “90 to 100”

Step 3: Trends > Pro Trends Rating > Set to “90 to 100”

And now let’s get a look at those results.

Not a bad Plus/Minus rating for such a simple Trend. What I particularly noticed was that adding the Pro Trends filter didn’t have a huge impact on the final results – it boosted the average Plus/Minus by +0.10 – which really speaks to the power of the Bargain Rating metric and the fact that you should be utilizing it in your research, and ideally as a part of your models as well.

Finally, let’s check out which players are matches for this Trend this evening.

And there you have it. Good luck tonight!