Chai League — The Value Board

LVAB (Lock-In Value Above Baseline), six ways. Baseline: – (–)

How LVAB works: LVAB = max(0, player value − baseline). The baseline is the value of the 96th-ranked player in the league (12 teams × 8 starters) — the last starting slot. Anyone at or below it scores 0.

The six tabs differ only in the input. Standard: projected points per game (9cat.app, Oct 14, 2026 — the original board). History avg: the player's actual per-game average last season. Predictions: the trade dataset's projection column — ESPN's per-game projection (averaged with 9-cat's for the 30 players who have both) — predictions only, no history. Weekly-best past: his weekly-best average last season — his best game of each week he played, in Chai League scoring — because in Lock-In only one game per week counts: the best one. Weekly-best predicted: the projection × his own last-season ratio of weekly-best to per-game average. Avg of all tabs: the plain average of the other five inputs (a player needs all five).

Where the predictions come from: Standard and Weekly-best predicted use 9cat.app's projections (9cat.app/projections), forecast dated Oct 14, 2026. Predictions uses the trade dataset's projection column — ESPN's per-game projection, averaged with 9-cat's for the 30 players who have both (122 are ESPN alone). History avg and Weekly-best past use no predictions at all — last season's actual game logs.

Honest limits: the history tabs come from last season's game logs, so they describe established level, not this season's form; weeks a player did not play are not counted in his averages. Players with no last-season logs (rookies, and players who missed the season) show “no data” on the history-based tabs instead of an invented number. Team score: on the Standard tab it is the original board's number (its snapshot starting eight); on the other tabs it is the sum of the team's best eight inputs — top eight by value, so a player the snapshot flags as IR still counts when his value is top-eight.