Aggregated Bids

Overview

Aggregated bids (also called typical bids) are day-type bid profiles built from a window of historical bid data. For the full procedure, see Aggregator in the Bid Manager reference tab.

What It Is

Typical bids are aggregated bid profiles generated from historical bid data, used to represent common or recurring bidding behaviour. The Aggregator sub-tab builds these profiles by day type — WORKDAY, SAT, and SUN — from a historical window you specify, so a study can use representative bid patterns rather than exact historical bids. The same aggregation can also be run in batch via the bidmanager-aggregator.exe command-line tool.

When to Use It

Use Aggregated Bids when preparing typical bid inputs for forecasting or scenario studies — aggregate a historical window into WORKDAY, SAT, and SUN typical bids instead of using exact historical data for every simulated day.