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PEAK refers to a series of metrics designed to evaluate a player's value over a consecutive six year period, as forecast by PECOTA.

For a player aged 25 or older, his PEAK score is simply the sum of his value in a particular cumulative category over the next six seasons.

Players aged 24 or younger may receive an additional adjustement based on their age. This is determined by extrapolating a generic aging curve to the last two season's of the player's Seven-Year PECOTA Forecast, up until a player is aged 30. For example, a 22-year-old star outfield prospect might have projected WARP scores as follows:

Age 22: 4.9
Age 23: 4.5
Age 24: 5.4
Age 25: 6.0
Age 26: 6.4
Age 27: 6.1
Age 28: 6.3
Age 29: 6.0 (extrapolated)
Age 30: 5.8 (extrapolated)

The prospect's PEAK score is determined by summing the highest projected score over a consecutive six-year period. In this case, we would skip the prospect's age-22 through -24 seasons and his PEAK would be the higher projected period from Age 25 to Age 30, for a PEAK WARP of 36.6, rather than the total of 33.3 we would have gotten by merely summing his next six seasons of projected WARP.

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