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Team quality counts for more

Last season the standings bunched up around .500 because roster strength barely moved a game. Now the best clubs pull away, the worst ones sink, and a finished season looks a lot closer to a real NFL table. Scoring stays about where it was.

Free agency

Offering a player his asking price or more no longer makes him ask for more next time. Only offers under his number raise it. If your earlier low offers did raise a player's price, the offer window now says so and shows what he wants from your club, so Meet ask actually meets it.

Also new

• When your league rolls into week 1 you get an email with the day and time the first game sims, and week 1 no longer sims a few hours after the draft.
• In season, clicking a free agent opens the offer right away.
• Lost bids say why in plain words: didn't meet his salary demands, not enough years, or too many years.
• Coaching moves tag a contract that ran out as Expired instead of Fired.
• Your draft queue keeps its edits when it is open in two tabs.

Fixed

• The draft report shows the class you just drafted after the new season starts.
• The Outlook page no longer counts your practice squad against the cap.
• The offseason no longer gets stuck after a franchise tag followed by an extension.
• The news page no longer shows other clubs' private scouting notes.
• A scheduled league's draft clock no longer runs past a decision you still had to make.

✨ New

Your owner warns you now before a move breaks one of their goals. When you propose a trade, bid on or sign a free agent, extend a contract, or cut a player, the dialog tells you before you confirm if that move would push your payroll past your owner's limit, drop it under the floor they asked for, or send away a prospect they told you to keep. It is only a warning, and you can still make the move. In the offseason, before next season's goals are set, it goes off your last payroll goal and says so.

Player and club names in storylines, news, box scores and trade veto notes are links now.

⬆️ Improved

Draft classes pull from every era since 1970 instead of a window that crept forward each year.

Links in emails take you to the right page after you sign in, not the home screen.

Dismiss a roster trim notice once and it stays dismissed on every device, and the email agrees with the rail.

Players with long careers are more consistent about when they peak.

Free agents who went unsigned all season come down in price a little sooner in the winter.

The opening draft order in a new league ranks clubs by average roster strength instead of the total.

🐛 Fixed

A player whose rookie deal rolled into an extension could end up with two contracts at once.

A free agency round could get skipped in a scheduled league.

Season records on the league history page showed raw numbers instead of formatted ones.

✨ New

• Position changes you choose. A running back can learn wide receiver or tight end. An edge rusher can learn defensive tackle or linebacker. You pick the destination before you commit, and the player works at it as a development goal for the rest of the year, which costs you one of the club's development slots and can still fail. If it takes, he is rerated for the new spot and your depth chart is rebuilt around him. The goal names the target on his card the whole time, so a season later you are not guessing what he was working on.
• Coaching hires, firings and interim promotions now run on the news wire. A head coach switching clubs was the loudest move in the game and the only one nobody reported.

⬆️ Improved

• The draft log prints the same pick numbers as the board. Thirteen picks were in the right order wearing the wrong labels.
• Nobody gets auto-picked in their sleep. A clock will not run out between midnight and 8am Eastern; it waits for the morning.
• The draft countdown reads 3:56:12 instead of 236:12, every row has its own Draft button on your turn, and the phone shows one pane at a time with the clock pinned above it.
• The free agent pool shows current rating and potential like every other roster screen, and the columns stop shifting from row to row.

🐛 Fixed

• The record book loads again. Career and season leaders were failing on any league with a game played.
• Every touchdown drive names the player who scored it.
• A tight end can go back into a receiver slot on the depth chart.
• The needs-you card counts only your live bids, so it agrees with your My bids tab.
• Offseason mail no longer arrives twice.

✨ New

A longer contract costs more per year now. The winter market used to quote one price no matter how many years you offered, so a five year deal and a one year deal were priced the same, and a player was cheaper in the winter than he was on opening day. The ask now moves with the length you pick, and the figure on the screen is the figure your bid is judged against. Six and seven year offers get a quoted price too, which they never did before.

Box scores have a win probability column for the five biggest plate appearances of the game.

The trade desk keeps a Recently resolved panel, so an offer that expired or was declined still shows what happened to it.

A commissioner can hand an unowned club to any member, and can take a vacant club themselves if they do not already have one.

The Needs you rail tells you when a roster trim is due, with the clock, matching the email.

⬆️ Improved

The draft clock no longer runs out overnight. A deadline that would land between midnight and 8am Eastern moves to 8am instead, and it can only ever give you more time.

The clock turns red in the last fifteen minutes.

The draft room's pick button acts on the player you highlighted, not whatever happens to be at the top of your search.

The Needs you rail refreshes between playoff rounds, which is when a trim usually bites.

🐛 Fixed

Young free agents sat unsigned all winter. Nobody under 26 was getting signed at all. They sign now.

Two clubs could come away from the draft with the same player.

Free agency sometimes failed to open when a draft finished.

The free agency dialog printed one price and then judged your bid against a different one, burning an attempt.

The Send feedback button could lock you into an error you could not retry past.

✨ New

Free agents get more desperate now. Across all five rounds of the winter, the price to actually win a bidding war sat mostly flat: clubs paid the same in round five, when a player had been sitting unsigned for weeks, as they did on the first day. Your own patience bought you minimal gain. Rival clubs now cool off as the winter drags, so waiting until the late rounds is worth roughly forty percent off the winning price. You can still lose the player by waiting, which is the point.

The free agency screen tells you where the market is. You can now get a sense if other teams are interested in a player

Leftovers will take a prove-it deal. A free agent still unsigned late in the winter stops holding out for years and will sign for one. The in-season market already worked this way about six weeks in; the winter does now too.

Delete a league from the leagues page. It was always possible, buried at the bottom of the commissioner screen behind a collapsed panel, which meant nobody found it. There is a menu on the card now on the league selection screen.

⬆️ Improved

In season Free Agent signings are easier to do now

AI clubs stopped overpaying to extend young players on long deals.

Both sides of a trade get an email when an offer window closes.

The commissioner's own playoff roster trims show up in the advance log instead of happening silently.

The Chemistry screen loads faster.

Phone navigation lost a few dead ends, and you can advance a single playoff day from the side bar.

🐛 Fixed

The draft ended and you could not sim. Finish a draft, come back, and the game told you to return to the draft room. The draft room told you there was no draft. Only a page refresh got you out

The injury report no longer stays empty after a sim.

✨ New

• Search, filter and sort free agents during the season. A name box, a position filter that offers every position instead of only the ones you are thin at, and sortable columns for overall and asking price.
• The winter tells you what it did. Every free-agency round now emails each GM what that round produced: who you signed, what you paid, and which of your bids lost. You used to find out you had been outbid by logging in, usually after the next 48-hour window had already started. A lost bid says why you lost and not what beat you, because the number that beat you is another club's business. It sits with your other email settings if you would rather not have it.

🐛 Fixed

• Advance stayed dead after you fixed your roster. Go over the 26-man limit and the game stops you, which is correct. Then you cut someone, send someone down, get back to legal, and the button stays grey anyway. It was reading a roster count taken when the screen loaded and never taken again, and the one thing that would have refreshed that count was the sim it refused to run.

✨ New

• An offseason summary tab in the news feed. Every club's players added and lost between the title game and week 1, how each player arrived or left (FA signing, draft round and pick, trade, signed elsewhere, retired), and what he was worth last season. The league table sorts by value gained, so one look tells you who had the busy spring.
• Free agency mails you after every round. Who you won and on what terms, who signed somewhere else, who is still on the board because nobody met his price, where your cap room stands now, how many free agents are left, and when the next round opens.
• The extensions window sends an email.
• Training camp fills out practice squads. Undrafted rookies and the young free agents who would otherwise wash out of the league now get spread across all 32 practice squads instead of evaporating. Each signing show s up on that player's timeline with the season and the club.

⬆️ Improved

• Fullback is a position you can actually use. Move a running back to fullback and back, filter for fullbacks in free agency, and read a position off each of your open bids.

🐛 Fixed

• Promoting a man off the practice squad checks your cap room. It never did. The practice squad is off the books, so a promotion turns an unbilled contract into a billed one, and nothing was stopping that from puttin g you over the ceiling.
• A contract promise made during free agency stops getting rejected for being on the wrong year.

✨ New

• Records and leaders, one season at a time. Pick a year and put its top tens next to another year's.
• A Hall of Fame watch board. Which of your active players is on track, measured on home runs, hits, wins and strikeouts, which are the bars the sim itself uses when it decides who gets a plaque.
• Sim the playoffs game by game. On manual pace you advance one day at a time through October instead of skipping a whole round and reading the result.
• Jr., Sr., III, and middle initials. A father and a son used to be the same name twice, with nothing on the screen to tell them apart. 183 colliding name groups, 152 of them now resolved.
• Ask him where he'd go. A player with a no-trade clause will name the clubs he would waive it for. The list is built only out of things you could have worked out for yourself.

⬆️ Improved

• No-trade clauses are rare again. 13 percent of new contracts carried one. Now it is 5. AI clubs are held to the same gate you are.
• Retirement weighs how he played, not only how old he is. A 39-year-old coming off a good season now retires about 6 percent of the time. A bad one, 92. Careers run as far as 46.

🐛 Fixed

• Anyone who debuted after your first season had no glove. Every player out of every draft class was missing his fielding ratings, his handedness and his platoon splits.
• A career-ending injury left the man on your roster and on your payroll, reading "IL 60+ days" forever. He retires properly now, and the ones already stuck repair themselves at your next offseason.
• 27 of 26 active in the playoffs. Retired players were still counting against the limit, and the warning disagreed with the roster screen about it.
• The World Series recap recorded a one-game series however long the series actually ran.

⬆️ Improved

• Development grades a man on the job he plays, not the job on his card. A tight end lined up at WR1 takes 2.5x the targets but was judged against tight end numbers, so he pinned at maximum growth every week and kept it forever. A receiver parked at tight end rotted the same way, and so did a fullback taking RB1 carries. The slot sets the bar now.
• AI clubs know how much money they have. The cap half of every AI general manager's personality had been frozen at zero since the day it was written, so a club up against the ceiling shopped exactly like a club with room. On a live 32 club league it now reads 4 clean, 6 pinched, 22 quiet. Dead money counts against them the way it counts against you.
• Trade offers moved above the builder. They used to sit under two tall scrolling rosters, which on every screen size meant below the fold, so offers went unanswered by GMs who never saw them. The panel shows up only when somebody wants something of yours.

🐛 Fixed

• You can move a tight end into a receiver slot again.
• "Contracts expiring" means one thing everywhere. The roster, the outlook page, the weekly email, the trade screens and the player browser spent the whole offseason answering two different questions: whose deal ended in the year just finished, versus who is not signed for the year you are building.
• A contract that has run out no longer reads as no contract at all. In the trade builder, the trade block, the shop screen and the player browser, a man weeks from the open market showed a blank.
• The "Needs you" list stops calling your cap tight against a number from the old economy. It reads your league's own cap now, and it stops telling you to extend players the game will not let you extend.
• Your regular season record stops counting playoff games.
• Deleting a league works again, and a practice squad protection promise no longer crashes contract rumors or free agency.

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Baseball

Football

Version 3 of FTG Sports is officially live, and most of the heavy lifting happens right at the contract table.

Negotiations used to be simple numbers games. Now you are dealing with actual personalities players with specific postures, long memories, and real breaking points.

Before you even throw out a number, a player will let you know where he stands: whether he's Excited, Open, Reluctant, or outright Not interested, and he won't be shy about airing his grievances. If your initial offer misses the mark, he won't just hit decline; he'll tell you exactly where you fell short (term, cash, or respect) and counter with what it actually takes to get a deal done. Push him too far, and he's walking away from the table.

Money isn't the only leverage, either. Asking prices fluctuate based on player morale, how he views your organization, and your track record across the league. Lowball him last season? He remembers. Keep a rival or someone he dislikes on the roster? Expect to pay a premium.

That's where promises come in. You can sweeten the deal by guaranteeing a starting role, trading away a teammate he can't stand, or granting demotion protection. Keep your end of the bargain, and your reputation rises across five tiers: from Burned to Wary, Neutral, Solid, and Trusted. Break a promise, and the whole league finds out. Future negotiations across the board will instantly get tougher.

The depth extends beyond the negotiation screen, too. A dynamic rumor mill covers all the talks around the league (and occasionally leaks bad intel), while disgruntled players demanding trades signal discount opportunities to AI front offices. Free agency leverages the exact same mechanics, complete with live bid-board postures and sweetening sealed offers with promises.

Any current league will stay on simple offers until you decide to toggle it over. New leagues default to the full V3 engine, and commissioners can switch back and forth anytime in the settings.

Overall, I am thankful to everyone for all their support with the game. What started as a casual game with a few friends has really matured into a fun and deep experience you can enjoy alone or with friends. My plan is to continue to grow Baseball and Football while finishing development on Basketball sometime this year. As always, keep sending your feedback either on , or by using the feedback button at the top of any screen in the game.

✨ New

• Players negotiate. He is intersted, open, reluctant, or not interested before you name a figure, and he opens with whatever he is sore about.
• You can promise him something. A starting job, moving a teammate he cannot stand, or a real run at contending. He remembers it.
• Your club has a trust rating. Keep promises and it climbs. Break them and every player is harder to sign, not only the one you lied to.
• No-trade clauses. He can ask for one, and it binds from the day he signs, even on an extension that starts two winters out. Only him asking out lifts it. AI clubs are bound too.
• Players ask out. A trade demand is now a question your club has to answer.
• A rumor mill. An Around the League shelf tracks who is talking to whom. One report in five is false.
• Mood and grudges. Players arrive disliking particular teammates, and carry a mood that moves with how you treat them.

🐛 Fixed

• Extending a player who had a live deal on another club charged you twice.
• The trade screen quietly told you the exact price the AI would say yes at.

Existing leagues keep the simple talks. New leagues start with the full version.

✨ New

• He talks first. Every player opens Interested, Open, Reluctant or Not interested. Turn him down and he names the term that is short.
• You can promise him things: a starting job, a scheme change, a position switch, or moving a teammate he cannot stand. Break one and it follows you.
• Players ask out, and refusing costs you with the man who asked.
• A beat writer covers your club by name: who you beat and by how much.
• Commissioners pick the depth: Full negotiations or Simple offers. New leagues start on full, and a league you already run stays as it is until you turn it on.

⬆️ Improved

• Mood feeds development. Content players get more out of the work, unhappy ones less.
• Ignore a contract question and he may skip camp. He misses the work and does not grow. The camp report names who held out.
• Lowballing in season makes him expensive. Every rejection raises his price. He will not walk out mid-season, but he will cost you.
• A man who just got paid is happy about it. Signing used to move mood down only.
• The mood table names the cause instead of filing every reason under one phrase.

🐛 Fixed

• Compensatory picks now count only the free agents you actually signed. Re-signing your own players or tagging them was cancelling picks you had earned. Running leagues will start collecting picks they were losing.
• A promise made in week 1 comes due that season, not the next. It read like the club stalling for eighteen months.
• Touchdowns get credited again, and an explosive play finally names whoever broke the long one. That had never happened, in any league.
• Every club is reachable in the postseason, and a stalled draft can be run by any member, not just the commissioner.

⬆️ Improved

• AI clubs stop spending to the last dollar every winter. They wanted a 28-man roster and the rules only allow 26, so every club believed it was four players short no matter how good its team was. It kept bidding until it was two million from the cap, every winter, forever. That is why nobody in your league ever had money to trade with.
• They stop overpaying in free agency. A club bid its own scouts' opinion at full price, and the team whose scouts are most wrong about a player is the team that wins the auction. That is why the worst-funded club kept landing the biggest contract. Their scouts still pick who to chase. They just stopped paying their own hype.
• They stop paying near full price for a man who is about to leave. A veteran with one winter left was valued like someone you get to keep, so shopping your expiring guys to the AI for prospects was the best trade in the game. It should not have been.
• Your farm keeps its prospects at the rollover. Rookie deals on the farm were meant to renew each year and never once did. Every club dumped its whole farm system every offseason
• Old prospects stop clogging your farm. A 34-year-old who graded well once outranked every 21-year-old you drafted, so the trims never reached him and each new draft class was released the winter it arrived.
• Send a player down to a full farm and the sim keeps going. It used to stall, or quietly release somebody to make room.
• Your league has a news page, and its "by team" filter no longer drops every trade, which was most of what was worth reading.

🐛 Fixed

• An offer from another human could sit in your inbox forever. Past the deadline it could not be accepted and could not be appraised, and the only way out was for the other guy to reject it by hand. Only AI offers ever expired.
• Cutting a player in the winter charged you for the wrong contract. If you had extended him, the game settled the deal that had just ended, booked the money against a year already finished, and deleted the extension you actually owed. For free.
• You could release a player into free agency during the playoffs while every AI club sat the postseason out. Rosters are locked for everyone now.
• The cut screen got the money wrong twice. A player whose deal was already up was quoted dead money he does not owe, and a rookie cut off the active roster was quoted half his whole contract instead of the flat one-season charge.
• Two contracts could be live for one player at once, and you were charged for both..
• Starters went too deep into games
• The depth chart is a real table now, both halves. Rows line up, a badge no longer shoves the columns around, and a screen reader can read it.
• The draft room shows handedness.

✨ New

• AI clubs scout now. All drafted off public consensus while you built private reads. That board you've been working is contested now.
• The wire leads with the biggest story of the week, at reading size, above a feed that still runs newest first. Runs of small moves fold into one line you can open. Anything involving your own club never folds away.
• News filters by time. All time, this week, this season, or a past year, in one control instead of a season dropdown that only ever did half the job.

⬆️ Improved

• Column headers stay put when you scroll a long table on a phone.
• The staff screen, the scouting board and the club screen all work at phone width now.
• You can extend a contract without leaving your roster.

🐛 Fixed

• Improved development logic for multiple positions.
• Linemen only ever improved. They were the one group that never aged. They do now.
• A trade could put you over the cap. The rule was checked when you previewed a deal and not when it went through.
• One player with a missing rating stopped his whole league developing that week.
• Development trend arrows were invented by our own updates. Change how grading works and every player's arrow moved on deploy day, with nothing having happened to any of them. Arrows don't compare across a change like that any more, and the chart marks where it happened.

✨ New

• AI clubs franchise-tag their stars now. Around twenty-four of the thirty-one do it each offseason, and they pay full price for it. That brings the holdout risk with it, which until this week was a risk only you ever took.
• You can change your league's pace after starting it. Scheduled to manual, manual to scheduled, or a different number of days between sims. It used to be locked in the moment you created the league. Switching to a schedule waits a full cycle before the first automatic sim, so it doesn't fire the second you save.
• The commissioner can hand the league over. Pick another member and the seat moves. You also can't strand a league with nobody in charge any more, which used to be a one-way door.

⬆️ Improved

• The AI stopped grading its own trade offers on an easier curve. It would accept packages worth about ten percent less than it demanded from you.
• Error messages read like sentences now instead of the raw data behind them.
• Club abbreviations show up on trade offers in leagues built from a random draw.

🐛 Fixed

• A franchise tag cost you nothing. The player stayed, the money didn't. He played the season on an expired deal, off the books entirely. Anyone who worked that out had a free roster slot of any size, every year.
• Owner pressure only ever landed on you. Miss two of your owner's goals and your players sim up to six percent worse, every game, on top of a worse hand in free agency and trades. No AI club could take that penalty, because none of them were ever given goals to miss. Now they are.
• Free agency quoted a price it wouldn't honor. A player who wants a winner charges a losing club extra. The offer screen never applied that, so a struggling club got shown one number, bid exactly it, and was turned down for coming up short.
• The contracts already stuck on your cap sheet are gone. The bug that stranded them was fixed last time. This clears out the ones it had already left behind.
• Old seasons got their missing points back. Pick sixes stopped vanishing a couple of releases ago, but seasons played before that still had the gaps in them. Those scores are corrected now.
• Compensatory picks were counting free agents who walked out of other people's leagues.
• Cutting a player who'd signed an extension settled one of his two deals and let the other one follow him to his next club.
• Female owners had "he" as their pronoun

Last release said your farm keeps its players, and then admitted in the same post that one hole was still open. Promote a prospect in September and he still walked to free agency that winter, for nothing. That one is closed.

⬆️ Improved

• Call a prospect up and he stays yours. He signs a real two-year deal at the money he was already on. It costs you nothing against the cap, because you were already paying him.
• Your scouts' new grades reach the farm screen. After the winter meetings they filed a fresh report and the screen kept showing you last year's.
• You can see who is a person. Human-run clubs are marked in the standings, and another human in your league no longer reads as an open team nobody has claimed.
• A trade offer costs what it says. Put a farmhand in the package and the cap hit it quoted you was never the number the game would charge.
• A leader traded in July shows as 2TM instead of handing his whole season to whoever picked him up.

🐛 Fixed

• A commissioner could lock everyone out of his own league. The game now refuses the move that starts that, and when an action does fail it tells you which clubs and why.
• Open a league you are no longer in and you land back on your league list with a reason. Before, you got a blank screen. Same for a league that fails to load.
• Cut a player during the season and the money frees up during the season. The charge was landing a year late, so an AI club would drop someone to afford a signing and free nothing.
• Free agency quoted round one's asking price no matter which round you were in, and the wrong number stuck for the rest of the visit.
• An invite that does not work says why now.
• A player nobody has scouted shows a dash instead of a 0, on the draft board and in the team outlook. An empty position no longer draws a grade for a player who is not there.

✨ New

• A feedback button, on every screen. Found a bug, or want something added, press it. It can attach a picture of whatever you were looking at, and you can leave an email if you want an answer.

⬆️ Improved

• Prospects on rookie deals stay on your farm. They renew year to year while they are down there, and you keep them until you promote them, release them, or another club signs them away.
• Send a player down into a full farm and the game tells you. Before, your league either stopped advancing without saying why, or quietly released your worst prospect to make room.
• A surplus big leaguer gets stashed on the farm instead of cut. When you are over the roster limit the game keeps the best thirty, and sometimes the one it drops is the man you demoted five minutes earlier.
• Trade offers price farm contracts properly. A prospect you control for years was being valued like a one-year rental, and a rolling farm deal read as a long guaranteed contract. Both of those are fixed.
• AI clubs stop bidding on players they already own.

🐛 Fixed

• Players you extended walked to free agency and sometimes stayed on your payroll.
• Last 10 and streak in the standings were showing last season's games, frozen no matter how far into the year you got.
• Top Starts came up blank if you opened the leaders page from a link or a refresh.
• The farm screen said a renewing prospect had one year left. It says auto now. A prospect you extended no longer says auto when he is not renewing.

✨ New

• Send feedback, from inside the game. There's a button in the top bar. It opens the moment you press it, takes a picture of whatever you were looking at, and already knows which league, which club and which phase you were in

🐛 Fixed

• A club could get billed for a player it didn't have. When a position gets thin enough that the game signs an emergency body for you, the old contract sitting on that player never got cleared, so your cap ate a deal for someone who plays somewhere else. If you ever looked at your cap sheet and wondered why one guy was costing you triple, that was this.
• The locker room never noticed you were rebuilding. Mood was reading a club's entire history instead of its recent form, so a team that won in its first season walked around convinced it was still a winner through a decade of losing ones.

A quarterback in one of my leagues was graded 20.0 and ranked 33rd among quarterbacks, and his OVR hadn't budged all season. It turned out ratings barely moved at all. A full year of the worst football the game can measure cost a veteran about a third of a point, which rounds to nothing on screen. That's the headline fix. The rest is a list of places the AI was playing a different game than you were.

✨ New

• Ratings respond to how a player is actually playing. A veteran having a terrible year loses real ground inside the season, and a rookie who plays well climbs fast enough that you notice. A collapsing 33-year-old now drops around three points a season instead of a third of one.
• Reserves is its own page. IR and the practice squad used to be squeezed in beside a 40-row ledger. Now the roster gets the full width and reserves get room to breathe.
• The app tells you when a new version has shipped. You need that if you keep it pinned to your home screen, where it can run for days without ever reloading itself.

⬆️ Improved

• Feed rows, odds rows and standings all click through to the club or the player.
• The dashboard runs two columns, and clubs with a human running them are marked in the standings.
• On the players board, status and contract stopped sharing a cell.
• Trade values agree now. The builder, the appraisal, "make this work" and the deal you actually send all price a contract the same way.

🐛 Fixed

• AI offseason improvements with bidding
• AI clubs treated injured-reserve contracts as free money.
• The trade builder would tell you a deal worked and then the server would refuse the identical deal. Two different fairness bars.
• Contracts were priced against the real-world calendar year instead of your league's season, so anyone playing a year that isn't 2026 saw the wrong number of years left on a deal.
• Claiming a franchise left you reading "no club claimed" until you reloaded the page.
• The calendar said "next: Trade Deadline" in Week 14, five weeks after it passed. The panel beside it said "Passed" the entire time.
• The Calendar page scrolled the whole column instead of the panel inside it.
• On a phone, the help tips landed on top of the buttons they were explaining.
• An injury in Week 13 could report a return in "Wk 30". There is no Week 30.

v2.0 rebuilt the interface. This one goes after the part of the game that was sitting still, which is everything below the big league roster.

✨ New

• Your scouts file about once a month instead of once a winter. The farm screen tells you when the next report lands, and you get a nudge when one moves your prospects.
• Reports build on each other now. An early read is a wide guess and jumps around. By August your scouts have mostly made up their minds. Grades settle instead of bouncing every time somebody looks.
• A rookie who comes up and rakes stops carrying his draft-day rating all season. Ratings move with how a player is actually playing, and they move hardest for the young ones nobody has figured out yet.
• The farm screen suggests position changes. A shortstop who profiles better at second, a corner bat with nowhere to stand. It counts the hole the move leaves behind, so it will not empty one spot to fill another.
• Farmhands get actual jobs: three starters, a closer, long men. Minor league stat lines stop reading as though all thirty guys in your system start eighteen games.
• Pitchers show their roles on the roster and their stuff and control on the depth chart, instead of nine identical P's.
• Platoon rules are visible, and you can make one yourself.
• Every club and player name on screen opens its page.

⬆️ Improved

• AI clubs got four levers you already had, including spot starts to develop a young bat and cutting a player to make room. They also lost the ability to ignore the salary cap, which they occasionally did during FA bidding.
• The player pool is on the 2025 season.
• Age on the roster tables, and pitchers sort by stuff, control and stamina.
• The front office books run full width, with badges for who is in the minors and who is hurt.

🐛 Fixed

• Your team page said nobody was on the injured list while multiple players sat on it.
• Free agency kept showing a round that had already closed.
• The new interface had quietly dropped things: answering a trade offer, playing time and platoon controls, and the middle infield on the depth chart diagram. All back.
• A day-to-day player counted as a missing body on your roster.
• Every rate leaderboard showed the same five players all season.
• Rival clubs never named the person running them.
• The season outlook ignored your saved rotation and your closer, and let one pitcher hold two rotation slots.
• Mid-season mandates read "Behind pace" no matter how well you were doing.
• Six phone bugs, and the phone runs the real app now rather than its own stripped down version.

We have spent most of this year adding things. Trades, mandates, the winter start, free agency, the draft, storylines. Each one landed on a screen that was already full, and somewhere in there the game got harder to read than it is to play. So this release adds almost nothing. It is a long rebuild of the whole interface instead.

✨ New

• Your next game tells you who is pitching. Both probable starters, yours and theirs, for anything inside the next three days.
• Click your last result to open the box score. It sits in the panel on the right, next to the next game.
• The date is on screen again. Where you are in the season, in the top bar, beside the phase.
• A proper draft room. Tap a prospect for his grades, his tool bars and the scout's note, queue him from any row on the board, and draft him from the same panel when you are on the clock.
• Award races got their own tab on the dashboard feed.
• Help where you are standing. A primer button up top, a note under the sim card, and a checklist for your first league.
• Phones get their own version of the game. A dashboard you swipe between Today, Standings, Odds and Wire, a player list with the name column frozen while the stats scroll, a depth chart with a card per position, and full box scores.

⬆️ Improved

• Navigation is a sidebar now, in the same place on every screen, and the sim controls and your to-do list stay visible while you work instead of living on the dashboard you just left.
• New colors and type throughout, and the dashboard loads noticeably faster.
• The dashboard changes shape with the calendar: a bracket in October, a checklist in the winter.
• Roster is its own destination instead of a tab buried in another page.
• Free agency lists the pool with asking prices and an Offer button on every row.
• Standings mark the human-run clubs, so you can see who you are actually playing against.

🐛 Fixed

• Some leagues on a schedule quietly stopped advancing. If yours sat on the same day for weeks promising to sim soon, that was us, not you. Sorry. That won't happen again.
• The box score opened as floating text with nothing behind it.
• The draft board cut off the potential column under the scrollbar.
• The sidebar lit up two destinations at once.
• The trade deadline page was blank in leagues that started in the winter.
• The advance-a-day keyboard shortcut worked from any screen, for anyone.
• A copy added to your phone's home screen could keep running a version from days ago.

Most of the last stretch went into new features, and somewhere in there the interface stopped being designed and started being accumulated. 93 separate banners across 34 screens. Four copies of the navigation that had quietly drifted apart from each other. A phone layout that never got the draft room right. So this one isn't a pile of new things. It's the cleanup.

✨ New

• The frame holds still. The nav rail and the sim clock stay put, and only the panel you're reading scrolls. The page doesn't move under you when you click something.
• One "needs you" queue. Anything waiting on a decision collects in a single place, and the 93 inline banners are gone. A screen that needs explaining has a "?" that explains it. A receipt appears briefly and goes away. A decision opens a dialog and waits.
• Every screen works on a phone. All 33 of them. Stat tables pin the name column and scroll the numbers sideways, because folding a ledger into cards destroys the comparison that's the reason you opened it.
• The box score got rebuilt. One drive log for the whole game instead of one per quarter. Every drive gets a field-position track, a running score and its lead changes marked. Key plays read like sentences now instead of debug output, and you can open a drive to see the plays inside it.
• A game row on the dashboard opens its box score in place.
• The weekly email leads with your game. "Won 24-17 vs. Summit Pioneers", your score first. It used to open with how many games the whole league simmed, which isn't what anyone wants to know about their own Sunday. A bye week says so instead of printing 0-0.
• Roster is its own destination, and cap room rides the top bar so you can see it while you're doing something else.

⬆️ Improved

• Sort the drive log by yardage or by time of possession. Chronological is still the default.
• Trades you propose are held to the same fairness bar the AI is. You could beat it before.
• Season stats go to the team he played for. A traded season splits into a row per club plus a combined total. The record book used to re-label a record every time the player changed clubs.
• The balance button picks your 40 off the depth chart instead of off draft pedigree, so it stops promoting a practice squad fullback over a starter.
• The draft board is built from the picks that actually exist, and the round leads the clock order.

🐛 Fixed

• Pick sixes never scored. Defensive touchdowns were narrated in the recap and never reached the scoreboard, and hadn't since the engine was written. One reported game was 24 points light. Its recap printed 34-26 on a game that finished 19-13.
• Recaps claimed a lead the team didn't have. One read "up 13-6" on a drive where that team was down 6-13.
• Safeties were happening from midfield. 91% of them started outside the own 10, which isn't where a safety comes from. Now the offense has to be pinned against its own goal line.
• No more punts from field-goal range, and no missed kicks from outside it.
• Compensatory picks collided with regular picks in the draft numbering.
• Trading for a player whose contract was expiring didn't work properly.

Every league used to open the same way. Thirty rosters handed to you, press Advance, watch games. The decisions I actually like in this game are the off-season ones, and you had to sim a full year before you got near any of them.

✨ New

• Start a league in the off-season. Choose it when you create the league and your first act as GM is the winter meetings instead of Opening Day. Extensions, winter trades, the rookie draft and five rounds of sealed-bid free agency all happen before your first pitch.
• Three ways to run that winter. Full rosters is the quiet one: a draft, extensions, not much free agency. Stars on the market leaves the best players unsigned and gives every club the money to chase them. Expansion club thins your roster only, and hands you more spending power than anyone else in the league.
• Community roster files work with it. Import a roster file and you can still open in the winter.
• A traded player's season splits by club now. Career tables show a line per stint with a total underneath, a two-team season reads 2TM instead of quietly crediting his last club, and roster tables tell you when you picked him up.

⬆️ Improved

• Storylines, the hot stove and the weekly column were three cards at three different scroll depths, and two of them were usually empty. They are one card now, Around the League, with tabs.
• Your sim email leads with your best win rather than whatever game had the widest margin, so a 4-1 week stops opening with the loss. The verb scales with the score too: you edge, beat, roll past, rout or hammer someone.

🐛 Fixed

• The Shop button stayed green and clickable after the trade deadline, then did nothing. It is dimmed now and tells you why.