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PCR-owned metric · live
The Delay Clock
How many days the card market takes to react once a hitting prospect's bat catches fire. Built from PCR's own daily snapshots — game logs and BC 1st auto prices — so it can be re-measured every morning.
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Median market reaction time
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Who's overdue right now
Mid-streak hitters whose card hasn't moved yet. Past the —-day median, the market is officially late by its own pace.
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How the math works. For every hitter in the Top 300 with a recent game log, we walk the season day by day and flag a hot streak when their trailing-15-game wOBA runs ahead of their own season baseline by 60 points and clears a .380 absolute floor. We then look at the card price history from that streak's first day and find the first move of 7% or more. The gap in days between the two is the reaction delay.
"Overdue" means past the median. The dot for a current streak turns amber when its days-waiting count exceeds the historical median. It is not a buy signal — it's a "the market is later than usual" signal. Treat as one input.
Tunable. Trailing-window length, wOBA floor, margin, and price-move threshold are all constants in /api/delay-clock. A v1.1 calibration pass is expected once more streaks land in the sample.