The market sets a price. Your scheme sets another. The gap is the edge.
Market value and value to your team computed separately, and the gap reported.
What the market pays, and what he is worth to you.
Every player carries two prices. Market value is built from real signals, not a single guess; value to your team is computed against your Team KR, your scheme, your gaps. Both are shown, and inside the market number, exactly what is driving it. This is a composite guard.
The market prices him at $180K, weighted down by a modest following. But he is a perfect fit for your scheme, so to you he is worth $275K. The two numbers answer two different questions, and the whole game is knowing when they disagree.
Illustrative engine read on the real valuation structure (market value from four clusters, team value against your Team KR). Composite player, demonstration figures.
The bargain and the trap live in the gap.
When market value and team value disagree, that is where you win or lose money. Overpay for a market darling who does not fit, and you have burned a budget. Find the player the market ignores who is perfect for you, and you have found the bargain no one else could see.
Player A has a small following and a huge fit; the market underprices him and you should pay above it and still win the trade. Player B is a market star whose game duplicates what you already have; the market will overpay, and it should not be you. Same two players, opposite calls, and only the gap tells you which is which.
Illustrative engine read on the real market-vs-team value gap. Composite players, demonstration figures.
Market value can be measured. It can also be built.
The four clusters are not just a read, they are levers. The read shows which one moves a player's market value most, so a program can grow the real number, and with it the ceiling on what he can legitimately be paid. Same composite guard.
The market number is the one input people treat as fixed, and it is the most movable of all. A program that grows the right clusters is not gaming the system; it is building real value, and the read points to exactly which lever returns the most.
Illustrative engine read on the real market-value grow-lever structure. Composite player, demonstration figures.
Everyone else trades on one price. You trade on two.
Two prices. One of them is yours alone.
Valuation finds the gap. Turning it into defensible, off-cap spending is the next surface.