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Peak, Prime, and Longevity

Peak is one highest-CPI season; Prime is the longest contiguous ≥90% run; Longevity is every qualifying season at ≥70% of that same peak, and these bands overlap.

See it on a real career

Each bar is one qualifying season, as a share of that player's best. Tap or hover a bar for details.

Why it matters

Fans often treat “prime years” and “longevity years” as separate piles. On DRBL they nest.
Understanding overlap prevents reading a 75% season as “career over.”

How to interpret it

Peak (100% of peak) ⊂ Prime (≥90%) ⊂ Longevity (≥70%).
Example, Season A at 100%: Peak + Prime + Longevity. Season B at 96%: Prime + Longevity. Season D at 84%: Longevity-only. Season F at 61%: neither.
Longevity-only (70–89%) means strong, peak-relative production that is outside the prime band, not a weak season by default.
Longevity can continue after the contiguous prime ends; a player need not stay at 90% to still clear the 70% floor.
Prime contiguity: 94%, 96%, 88%, 93%, 95% is not one five-year prime. The 88% gap splits it into two prime windows, and Career Resume keeps the longest run.
Peak ≠ “best season” in a league-percentile sense; Prime ≠ every season that ever hit 90%.
Longevity ≠ years played or durability (games played). It is production sustained vs own peak.

How DRBL uses it

Career Resume Peak / Prime / Longevity cards on player pages.
Qualifying-season table bands should be read as overlapping labels.
All three bands are measured with CPI.