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2025

New: New Game Engine - Huge Update!

Each player on the field now has a predetermined Assignment, which is decided by the Play chosen. This was true before, but only for offense, not as complex
Each player's overall at each Assignment is visible on their Player page and is uniquely calculated based on each player's individual attributes
Defensive plays have been added. Some plays have player assignments that are blitzers
Concept of zone vs man coverage has been added
Concept of gaps has been added. Blockers can block only players in their, or nearby gaps. Defenders who are rushing attack a specific gap depending on the play
Concept of engagements has been added for blockers and rushers, and for receivers and pass defenders. This means double coverage has been added and noted in play results.
Concept of unique pass routes has been added. Each pass route has a side (L/R) and zone (short, med, deep). This corresponds to defenders on the field playing zone in the different locations
QB Scrambles now account for each pass defender vs. the QB to determine scramble success, starting with defenders closer to the LOS
FB are now additionally able to rush and be receivers on certain plays
Receiver vs Pass Defenders - height difference now influences pass outcomes

Improvement: Teams list - OVR, OFF, DEF, ST ratings now consider all starters (required depth chart players) instead of only the top starter at each position

New: Contracts Update!

Added Guaranteed (GTD) portion of all players contracts
All remaining GTD money is paid out as Salary Cap Penalties when a player leaves a team in the middle of their contract. This replaces the old flat 25%-of-salary cap penalty system.
Salary Cap Penalties are now paid out over a maximum of two seasons, depending on years remaining: this contract year (1yr worth of GTD), and ALL the remaining GTD is a penalty on the next contract year

September 8, 2025

Improvement: Player Records now has filter dropdowns and shows all historical records, always sorted by Achieved to show most recently broken at the top of the list
Bug fixed: Now disabling City and Logo dropdowns in Team Options during the season

September 6, 2025

New: Added Admin Options button to unplayed Games view, with a button to swap Home and Away teams for individual games
Bug fixed: Corrected centering of certain logos on Schedule view

September 2, 2025

Improvement: Week 31 Season Summary - Added Team dropdown to view other teams Progression Reports
Bug fixed: Standings - Tiebreakers would sometimes remove division winners from playoffs

September 1, 2025

Improvement: Sidebar menu toggle state now persists between pages

August 26, 2025

Improvement: Added player/team/coach/league name to browser tab titles
Bug fixed: Sometimes coach OVR and DEV boosts could be upgraded beyond +2 and +5
Bug fixed: Coaches with +3 or higher OVR boosts have had those boosts converted to Dev boosts

August 25, 2025

New: Store - Added the ability to buy single Team or Location cards
New: Patreon - Patreon supporters have been awarded coins equal to the total amount they've pledged in USD cents, and will continue to earn coins each month moving forward!

August 21, 2025

Improvement: Watchlist - all buttons no longer refresh the page
Bug fixed: Draft table - team logos were missing
Improvement: Added all team logos as Discord emojis
New: Users Online Now - now shows count of unique active users in the past 24 hours

August 19, 2025

Bug fixed: Re-Sign view - clicking scouting reports would result in an error
Improvement: Re-Sign view - added Raw OVR column
Improvement: Player view - added Show Scouting Report Text button (without going to a new page)
Improvement: Scouting Report Summaries - added Accurate indicator for revealed players

August 18, 2025

Improvement: Draft Board - now only shown on Schedule view during the draft week, and Rookie Draft Class view during all weeks
Improvement: Scouting Reports - removed individual scouting report view and combined all available scouting reports and text for a player on one page

August 16, 2025

Improvement: Watchlist - Added pagination and search, and a Remove button
Improvement: Wiki opens in a new tab
Bug fixed: Schedule graphic offseason week names are shown again

August 15, 2025

Improvement: Schedule graphic - Added "@" to indicate away games and moved text "WC","DIV" to be inside the box

August 14, 2025

New: For new leagues, Realistic Rosters have been updated
Improvement: Faded logos for teams eliminated from playoffs are now only faded on the Standings view and in the Playoff Tree graphic
Improvement: Added Salary to Manual Trades

August 11, 2025

Improvement: Added division rank and Conference and Division info to Team Info bars, under the team record

August 8, 2025

Bug fixed: User profiles - Leagues tab was sometimes showing incorrect number of Championship Wins
Improvement: All scouting reports, including Media, will have text show up in CSV exports
Improvement: Homepage - Patreon supporters are now sorted by total lifetime financial contribution amount

August 7, 2025

New: Added x/y/z notation next to each team name to indicate playoff clinch status. Hover for explanation.
New: Teams eliminated from playoffs now have their team logo faded
Improvement: Players are not eligible for multiple MVP/Player/Rookie of the Year awards in the same year

August 6, 2025

Bug fixed: Standings - sometimes tiebreakers would replace division winners and mess up standings

August 5, 2025

Bug fixed: OVRs displayed during rookie signings were not accurate; now correctly uses scouting report results like the Roster view
Bug fixed: OVR sorting was broken for players 100+ OVR on Re-Sign players table
Improvement: Added PC column to Rookie Signing and Re-Sign players tables
Improvement: Added PC column to Players CSV export
Improvement: Changing scout region no longer redirects to the Scouts view

August 4, 2025

New: Hover over (?) to see all scouting reports OVRs for BOTH OVR Display Preference options (for unrevealed rookies in My Profile)
Improvement: Increased number of scouting reports in players tables to show 10 instead of 5

July 28, 2025

New: Added Watchlist - can add any player and a custom note

July 26, 2025

Bug fixed: Players who suffered career-ending injuries sometimes created incorrect "Recovered from Injury" messages

July 22, 2025

Improvement: Team Points are now awarded to all teams during week advance, not after finishing a game. New leagues now start all teams with 1000 points for week 1.
All existing league teams who have an unplayed game in the current regular season week have been awarded +1000 points to adjust to the change above.

July 20, 2025

New: Added View Full League Schedule button to dashboard

July 16, 2025

Bug fixed: Progression Chance / dev impact was not applying for players who matched coach culture but had +0 culture boost
Improvement: All user teams will automatically have "Sim Draft" and "Auto Pick Draft Board" disabled when the season advances

July 2, 2025

Improvement: All coaches will now have their Culture Impact modified automatically if the Admin changes the Culture Impact range by the same amount.
Example: +1/+3 to +0/+2 will automatically decrease all coaches CUL Impact by 1
Coach Progression changes - logic is now as follows:

Currently coach has league minimum CUL impact: Require 9 wins or playoff win to get to progress +1, or Championship Win to get to maximum
Currently coach has league maximum CUL impact: Require 11 wins to remain at current (less than 11 wins regresses -1)
Currently coach has any other CUL impact: Require 12 wins or playoff win to progress +1, or Championship Win to get to maximum. Require 9 wins to remain at current (less than 9 wins regresses -1)

Championship Winning coach will now automatically progress directly to the league maximum culture impact
New leagues now default to +0/+2 culture impact

June 29, 2025

Bug fixed: Corrected some information about coach boosts in help views
Improvement: Added code to start tracking teams' city, name, and logo each week. In a future update, I can make games and historical data show the team info at that time in league history
Improvement: Teams no longer revert their city/name/logo to default when getting kicked or quitting a team

June 23, 2025

Bug fix: Coaches - June 19th update forgot to apply this for active coaches that were not currently on teams
Bug fix: Standings - Sometimes tiebreakers were not being considered

June 19, 2025

Change: All leagues - Maximum Coach OVR Boosts is now +2 per position instead of +5. For each coach, any OVR boosts +3 or higher were automatically converted to Dev Boosts for that position, up to the +5 Dev Boost maximum

June 16, 2025

Improvement: Changed 'All Teams' to 'All Players' and now includes free agents

June 12, 2025

New: Added indicators on Draft table showing if a team is set to Full Sim, Board, or Manual

June 11, 2025

Improvement: Scouting reports CSV now automatically includes text for all reports generated after this update (without needing to open them once first anymore)
Bug fixed: There was a server error message after picking with the very last pick of the draft
Bug fixed: Old waiver claims/bids were incorrectly showing up during Free Agent Bidding week as "Current Offers"

June 10, 2025

Bug fixed: Pancake stats were not being recorded correctly
Bug fixed: OL were not appearing in Game Stats after games
Bug fixed: Longest KR/PR stat was not being recorded correctly
Bug fixed: Some players tables didn't sort by Years Pro correctly (Rookies)
Bug fixed: Improved Team Players Stats accuracy

June 7, 2025

Bug fixed: Some trades offered by CPU teams would not get accepted when the user tried to Accept
Bug fixed: Manual Trades would incorrectly automatically accept if a user clicked the Offer button twice on the same Trade (by having the un-offered trade opened in two separate tabs)
Bug fixed: For realtime games, all players who played in the game had their name displayed in Game Stats before the game finished

June 1, 2025

Bug fixed: Corrected a logic issue with game-calculated OVR and attribute modification based on CON and boosts, which was sometimes wrong

May 29, 2025

Bug fixed: Defensive play recognition now only increases during regulation, not OT
Bug fixed: Since the May 27th update, in rare cases, live games could sometimes be spoiled via the box score from the Schedule screen
Improvement: Salaries are no longer modified by yearly awards won. Only Championship Winner award will increase salary calculations for that player by a flat rate. Multiple awards do not stack this modifier anymore.

May 27, 2025

Bug fixed: Players that played in a game, then left the team after that, had their stats missing from older Game Stats when the game was viewed
Improvement: Game Stats are now available for all games, no matter how old (includes Schedule view and Game view) NOTE: Play-by-play details are still only available for recent games
Bug fixed: Some View Roster tables were stuck on QBs only

May 24, 2025

Bug fixed: Revealed OVR history items were not saving the player's position at that time, resulting in incorrect position reported for that history item if the player changed positions after that
New: Added Team option "Sim Draft"
New: Added League option "Set Teams to Auto Draft if Draft Clock Expires"

May 23, 2025

Bug fixed: Trades between two human user teams would sometimes incorrectly show -2000 for manual trade interest

May 22, 2025

Bug fixed: Traded players had split stat lines between two different teams in Player Stats

May 15, 2025

Change: Now restricting position changes to/from similar positions only

May 13, 2025

Bug fixed: FA Bidding/Summary - sometimes previous waiver claims would interfere with FA bidding accuracy, causing incorrect information during Free Agent Summary

May 5, 2025

New: Updated Realistic rosters for new leagues
Improvement: Players with less than 4 years pro in new leagues will start with a slightly lower salary to emulate a rookie contract

May 3, 2025

New: Now showing OVR in game stats for players that did not record any stats but played at least 1 play (after game is over)
New: Now showing number of plays in game stats (after game is over)
Bug fixed: Standings would sometimes incorrectly apply tiebreakers based on record for teams that won playoff games

May 1, 2025

Bug fixed: Auto Pick Draft Board wasn't working if the previous pick was a manual human user pick

March 8, 2025

Bug fixed: Trophy icons for awards were not yellow for Championship Winner at the top of Player pages
New: Added drafts API /api/v1/leagues/{league}/season/{season}/drafts
Bug fixed: CPUs were not bidding on FAs during FA Bidding week if there were any existing Waiver bids that week
Bug fixed: Auto Pick Draft Board actually works again! This will sim a user's pick as if they were a CPU, if there is an available player on their draft board.
NOTE: This will sim past a user's pick if a player on the draft board is available, and Sim Until Next User Pick is clicked!
(Disabled this setting for all user teams until they opt-in again)

March 7, 2025

Bug fixed: Sometimes Player History records for OVR changes were slightly off after position changes (rounding error)

February 24, 2025

Bug fix/Improvement: Made default "Go For It" scenarios a little more conservative

February 20, 2025

Bug fixed: Sometimes Coach OVR or Dev boosts/costs/amounts were slightly wrong
Bug fixed: Total Contract Value column was empty
Improvement: Costs, salaries, and amounts are now right-aligned in tables (let me know if you find some I missed)
Bug fixed: Waiver Wire - Players cut during week 21 did not become pending waivers

February 16, 2025

Bug fix: Realtime games were not starting since a system change yesterday

February 14, 2025

Bug fixed: Unchecking Show Results would spoil the results of the PFL Championship game because of the new yellow trophy icon
Bug fixed: "Drafted", "Signed", "Traded" Players History items were incorrectly hidden for unrevealed players since the Feb 12 update
Chemistry improvement schedule changed to be a shorter timeline:

0 weeks with team: -7 CHM
1 weeks with team: -5 CHM
2 weeks with team: -4 CHM
3 weeks with team: -3 CHM
4 weeks with team: -2 CHM
6 weeks with team: -1 CHM
8 weeks with team: 0 CHM

Bug fixed: Weeks on current team was not getting +1 after week 31
Improvement: Evaluate Player cost for unrevealed players is now updated weekly, based on number of weeks on the current team

February 13, 2025

Bug fix: Some Players tables filtering by Culture would not work if there were unrevealed rookies in the table

February 12, 2025

Bug fix: Players History search could leak hidden OVR information
Improvement: Added season to Upgrades modal for Evaluate players

February 11, 2025

Bug fix: Limiting scouting report array for OVR display to 7
Bug fix: Evaluate Player cost discount is now properly applied (gets cheaper based on the player's years pro)

February 8, 2025

Improvement: Added "Ignore Media reports for OVR Sort" checkbox to Rookie Draft Class table
Improvement: Scouting reports array numbers are now bold for non-media reports

February 7, 2025

Improvement: Added Team Culture to Draft and Mock Draft tables

February 6, 2025

Improvement: Removed "take own safety" from the game sim

February 4, 2025

Improvement: Scouting Reports CSV now includes text column. NOTE: Only scouting reports that have been opened/read at least once will have the text column populated in the CSV!

February 2, 2025

Improvement: Undo Trade now reverts Draft Boost

January 29, 2025

Improvement: Now showing scores for games in the schedule graphic
Improvement: Free Agent Bidding - Now noting Free Agent players that your team has submitted an offer for

January 28, 2025

Improvement: Specifying teams has been removed from Free Agent bidding, only shows number of teams who have placed bids now

January 25, 2025

Bug fixed: Now hiding Hard Mode CON in players history

January 24, 2025

Improvement: "Sim extra team points" option now triggers after the Draft (between week 29 and 30) instead of after the conference championship games.

January 20, 2025

Bug fixed: Keep Competitive wasn't working when editing a player by the admin
New: Punting teams will purposely take a safety under certain specific scenarios when leading 11+ with under 60 seconds left in the game
New: Improvement: any kickoff that reaches the end zone will be kneeled for a touchback
New: References to the PFL Championship Game now include a gold trophy icon. PFL Champions have a trophy icon near their name until the start of the next season.
Bug fixed: League Admin options - Unchecking Old Jersey Numbers didn't work

January 19, 2025

Bug fixed: Sometimes players recovering from injury gave an error trying to add to depth charts until cache expired
New: Minimum salary cap options added down to $170M
Default new league salary cap changed from $240M to $220M

January 18, 2025

Bug fixed: If the game was tied and a team was beyond their own 30 yd line, and it was 4th down, and there was under 5:00 to go, and there was 5 or less yards To Go, they would incorrectly Go For It by default, instead of Punt

January 16, 2025

Bug fixed: Player recovering from injury was not always creating an in-game Message, but should now
Bug fixed: Messages were not sorting by date correctly by default, but should now

January 9, 2025

Improvement: Injury Report minor changes for clarity, changed column names
Bug fixed: Changing pages on auto-updating tables would break some interactive hover popups

January 6, 2025

Bug fix: Old (rejected) FA Bids were showing up after the player signed

January 5, 2025

Bug fix: Player salary sometimes unexpectedly changed when signing a free agent
New: A total of 2000 bonus team points are now available and automatically awarded for winning games each season (+250 points for each win up until the 8th win)

January 4, 2025

Bug fix: Waiver claims/bids were not working as expected if claim/bit submitted in the previous season
Bug fix: Waiver claims/bids were not honoring last season's standings if claim happens before week 3

January 3, 2025

Bug fix: Waiver offers/bids were not displayed week 1 if bid in previous week 31
Bug fix: Players were incorrectly put on Waiver wire if never signed to a team (drafted but not signed)
Bug fix: Edit Player form was incorrectly setting any salary attempted to be set under $1M to $1M
Improvement: Added Draft Boost to Edit Player form

January 2, 2025

Bug fix: Player salary sometimes unexpectedly changed when signing a free agent
Bug fix: Player salary was sometimes 0
Bug fix: Sometimes re-sign salaries weren't getting set right
Bug fix: Hard Mode - Change Position was not available, and hid some more OVR leaks
Improvement - added Draft position to player header on player page

January 1, 2025

Bug fix: Play Game disappeared for user vs user games

December 31, 2024

Bug fix: Sometimes players would get stuck on the Waiver Wire (This fix will apply at next week advance)
Bug fix: Waiver Wire signings were not granting Pass Achievements for free agent signings
Improvement: Added a team Message when a player is signed via Waivers
Bug fix: Play Game button was sometimes disabled for CPU team roster issues
Bug fix: Same-team/Same-player trades were showing up on Trade Block

December 30, 2024

New: Added Rewind Draft option for Admins via Admin menu - during draft only

December 22, 2024

Improvement: Season Pass - Gift a Season Pass achievement is now earnable unlimited times
Improvement: Season Pass - Gift a Season Pass achievement changed from 15000 XP to 20000 XP
Improvement: Season Pass - Changed "under 20 yards rushing allowed" to "under 50"

December 20, 2024

Bug fixed: Sometimes CPU games would not play even with Force Advance
Improvement: Kickoffs - touchbacks now start at the 30 yard line instead of the 25 to mimic real life
Improvement: Punts - Slightly increased minimum punt distance
Improvement: Punts - Slightly increased punt return yardage
Improvement: Punts - Punt distance now influences Fair Catch %
Improvement: Punts - Punt accuracy is used for determining punt results near the opponent's end zone (if pinned deep or touchback)
Improvement: Punt text display is more accurate
New: Added basic Punting stats to Player and Team Stats

December 18, 2024

New: Winter 2024 Season Pass!

Buy the Season Pass in the Store! Event lasts 99 days! Earn Season Pass Achievements, Level Up and earn exclusive Rewards!
NOTE: All rewards are cosmetic only and offer no in-game advantages! Thanks for supporting the site with your purchases!
All Season Pass users instantly receive a Season Pass online indicator icon!
Dark Mode (Season Pass Reward)
Animated OVR Bars (Season Pass Reward)
Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum Username Plaques (Season Pass Reward)
Custom Online Status Indicator icon (Season Pass Reward)
NEW Promo City and Team Logo cards - exclusive cards not found in packs (Season Pass Rewards)
Re-release old Promo City and Team Logo cards - exclusive cards not found in packs (Season Pass Rewards)
Added (Season Pass Level) to Users Online Now

Bug fixed: CPUs would sometimes hire scouts that were previously replaced by the Admin
Bug fixed: Advance Week would sometimes try to automatically fix human teams rosters if other CPU teams needed fixing
Bug fixed: Removed some bad code around displaying the reason a team wasn't Game Ready
Bug fixed: Old waiver claims/offers no longer show up after player has signed

December 14, 2024

Bug fixed: Waiver Wire would sometimes not process waivers all players if a player got signed from a Waiver Bid

December 12, 2024

Bug fixed: Waiver Wire would sometimes incorrectly show a user has bid
Improvement: Can now view and delete Waiver Claims and Bids

December 10, 2024

New Game Sim Update: Removed hard coded QB OVR value from some calculation modifiers
New Game Sim Update: Slightly increased completion % for pass plays
New Game Sim Update: Slightly increased rushing yards

December 9, 2024

New: Waiver Wire! Cut players will be available for teams to place Claims for their current contract. Lowest ranked team will claim the player 2 weeks after being cut.
NOTE: You can also Bid a value lower than the current contract. If there are no Claims, the highest bidder will sign the player.
Added Claim and Bid buttons/UI to players in Pending Waivers status
Added Waiver Wire players to the Dashboard
Bug fixed: Manual trades / trade block was incorrectly getting deleted one week early since the Trade Deadline week change from 8 to 9

December 3, 2024

New Game Sim Update: Play Recognition has changed to be more dynamic. Defensive players no longer gain attribute bonuses. Instead, the defense chance for success increases in the game sim.
There is no longer a minimum or maximum to the amount of plays per formation to trigger this effect. Repeated play type (run/pass) out of the same formation will yield better defensive results if the
offense chooses to replicate the same formation and play type. The effect is exponential the more repetitions occur in the same game. This is to encourage more balanced and varied playbooks.
NOTE: There are no longer any indicators in the game log showing "play recognition bonuses"
New Game Sim Update: Increased how much player skill difference affects the outcome between matched-up players
New Game Sim Update: Removed hard coded HB OVR value from some calculation modifiers
New Game Sim Update: Improved pancake block effectiveness
New Game Sim Update: Improved blitzing effectiveness, but also added diminishing returns for repeat blitzes against the same offensive formation (this will be updated once defensive plays are added)
New Game Sim Bugfix: Improved/fixed hurry-up offense logic
New Game Sim Update: Reduced frequency of QB scrambles

November 26, 2024

Bug fixed: Trade History view would sometimes not show the Season dropdown

November 24, 2024

Improved: Added Estimated Salary column to draft tables

November 23, 2024

Improved: Added Our Players button above Team Needs button for a quick way to see your own roster while on any other page
Improved filters on Players tables - added Team and Position filters

November 21, 2024

Bug fixed: Coaches sometimes didn't immediately apply their culture and boosts to players when hired

November 14, 2024

Improvement: Leagues with Require Users Ready enabled will now require the other team to be Ready before being allowed to schedule a realtime game (admins excluded)
Improvement: Leagues are no longer set to Uncompetitive if Admins Force Sim a draft pick/picks for other users. (Contact Aurabolt if you want your league's Competitive status restored)

November 11, 2024

Improvement: Trade Deadline changed from week 8 to week 9 to replicate real life
Bug fixed: Combine Results listed in Rookie Draft Class were not sortable and were missing table headers and attribute mapping description
Bug fixed: Sack yardage was being counted against QB passing yardage. NOTE: this fix means Team Stats will be slightly off because of excluding sack yardage, until a future update
Improvement: Prevented the ability to sell Promo cards

November 4, 2024

Bug fixed: Games Played issue for realtime games was wrong (this fix applies to future games)
Improvement: Reduced trade value of K and P, and capped their trade value at 400

November 3, 2024

Bug fixed: Players cut during realtime game sims were preventing stats from getting recorded for that game

November 2, 2024

Improvement: Trades that are Undone by the Admin will now show up in Trade History (only affects trades Undone after this update)
Bug fixed: Jersey Numbers / Old Jersey Number ranges were not being generated/selected properly (fix only affects future generated players)

October 30, 2024

New: Added a Wiki to the site! (Logged in users only)
Bug fixed: Team Players Stats - Games Played (GP) was wrong

October 21, 2024

Bug fixed: Scout Now button was not working during week 28
Improvement: Players with hidden OVR - Scouting OVR array - each report is now clickable and opens the report in a new tab!
Improvement: Scout Now button - now displays the Scout's report capacity for the upcoming week!
Improvement: Scout Now button - hover over the button a second to see the Scout name
Improvement: Scout Now button - now automatically refreshes the Scouting Reports table - NOTE: this may re-sort the table based on the report that was just generated

October 19, 2024

Bug fixed: Standings - sometimes a H2H tiebreaker would result in duplicate Conference Seed displays NOTE: this won't get retroactively fixed for seasons where leagues currently in the playoffs
Bug fixed: Standings - sometimes a H2H tiebreaker would result in a division-winning team incorrectly getting swapped with a non-division-winning team
Improvement: Added GMs to Team History

October 18, 2024

New: Instant Scouting - added Scout Now button that generates a report instantly without waiting for week advance! NOTE: You can't re-assign your scout to a new region if they already started scouting in the current region the same week
Improvement: Updated Scout button to have a target icon

October 17, 2024

Bug fixed: Coaches dropdown for teams now works
Improvement: Coaches - All Coaches view now lists teams without coaches
Improvement: Players drafted by a certain team will re-gain the Drafted By bonus even if they leave the Drafted team and then come back
Improvement: Retroactively applied October 16th Drafted bonus change to all players in all leagues
Bug fixed: Coaches with +2 CUL impact were not regressing to +1 CUL impact unless they had 8 or less wins and lost a playoff game. The corrected behavior is to regress to +1 with 8 or less wins and don't play in a playoff game.
Bug fixed: Records shown on previous seasons/weeks now show the record for that week, not the team's current record

October 16, 2024

Improvement: Fantasy Draft - Players drafted now received Drafted By dev bonuses
Improvement: Salary Cap Penalties - added detail showing each player and penalty when clicking on Cap Space in Team Info bar
Improvement: Salary Cap Penalties - added currently active Cap Season to the bar (rolls over after Champ Game week)

October 11, 2024

Improvement: Can now delete sent messages
Bug fix: Prevent punting on the last play before the half if not 4th down

October 7, 2024

Improvement: Replace Scout button is now only available during Draft week until the last week of the season
Bug fix: Prevent replacement of Media scout
Bug fix: Removed the arrows from the Culture icon in Team Info bar
Bug fix: Culture Match was incorreclty hidden from Team Info bars in Hard mode

October 6, 2024

New: Admins can now Replace a scout in the league which will generate a new random scout (as long as no one has hired them yet that season). Note, this is permanent

October 4, 2024

Bug Fixed: Various hard mode OVR leaks in the offseason
Bug Fixed: Duplicate team icons for the same player during Free Agent bidding
Bug Fixed: Non-admins can no longer update all games with same timeslot when setting a Live Game Sim time
Improvement: Progression Chance Factors now visible for all players including hidden OVR players

September 30, 2024

Bug Fixed: Sometimes the Discord bot would not send a message when a user team was on the clock
Bug Fixed: Sometimes players would start a league with -7 CHM for transactions that happened during league creation

September 29, 2024

Bug Fix "CoopGate": If a user team already played their game in a week, their deptch chart was invalid (like from an injury that game), and the Advance Timer / Force Advance was triggered, the game would incorrectly fix the user team's roster even if Sim Roster was disabled.
NOTE: If a user team has NOT played their game yet, and Advance Timer / Force Advance is triggered, it is still expected that the game will fix the user's roster to play the game and advance the week.

September 25, 2024

Improvement: Added Download Transactions as CSV button to the dashboard view

September 24, 2024

Bug fixed: Last play before halftime - fixed a bug where teams would sometimes punt instead of kneel
Improvement: Trade Block Players table is now always visible on the Trade Block screen
New: Added "Watch Last Game" to Homepage leagues table, which links directly to the last completed game without spoilers
Bug fixed: Fantasy Draft - Players no longer have CHM -7
Bug fixed: Fantasy Draft - Fixed bug where simmed User team picks would pick all QBs (players not getting added to depth chart)
Bug fixed: More OVR leaks in Hard Mode
Improvement: Trade Block - can now add or remove players from the trade block during any week
Bug fixed: Player Actions - Hover text near Cut button is now displayed in the popup
Improvement: Added popup confirmation modal to Sign Player and Draft Player buttons in Players table

September 21, 2024

Bug fixed: Filters did not work on Combine Results view
Bug fixed: Multiple OVR leaks in Hard Mode
Improvement: Improved dropdown filters for Players table and Combine Results table and Scouting Reports table

September 19, 2024

Improvement: Auto Advance leagues - The Next Auto Advance Time will automatically update calculated from the current Advance Time set, not the time at the end of the last week advance simulation. This will prevent advance time drift over time

September 18, 2024

Bug fix: If the Advance Week timer expires while a draft is still happening, the Advance Week timer will now be automatically disabled. The admin can re-enable it after the draft.
This bug was causing drafts to sim picks unexpectedly once every minute if the Advance Week timer expired during a draft.
Improvement: Added Players History item when a player changes culture from Adaptable

September 15, 2024

Improvement: Added years_pro to players CSV
Improvement: Added confirmation dialog for Scout hires
New: Rookie Draft Class - Added scouted vs unscouted statistics on Rookie Draft Class by College Region table

September 14, 2024

Bug fixed: Scouting - scouts would sometimes scout the same player more than once even when there were still players that were unscouted in the region
Bug fixed: Scouting Reports Table - the "#" column would only count the number of reports on the currently displayed table page instead of number of reports your team has in total
Improvement: Scouting - when there are no Scouting Targets remaining, scouts will now prioritize players with high Media reports for half their reports, and random players in the region for the remaining players each week

September 13, 2024

Improvement: Combine Results is now rendered as a responsive server-side table
Improvement: Rookie Draft Class players no longer have irrelevant columns in their table (CHM, HAP, etc)
Improvement: Combine Results are now included in Rookie Draft Class CSV and in Rookie Draft Class table if the league week is after Combine Results are available
Improvement: Rookie Draft Class CSV and Players CSV now include player_id column

September 8, 2024

Improvement: Division wins are no longer considered for non-division-winners when calculating standings. Also, Conference wins are no longer considered when ranking non-playoff teams.

September 4, 2024

Bug fixed: Rosters/depth charts should no longer be fixed between weeks for any team. Only immediately before games being played. Force Advance (or league advance timer) will automatically resolve a team's roster if they need to play a game to advance the week.

September 2, 2024

New: Added "Undo Trade" button for admins on Trade History view
Bug fixed: Decision to attempt a FG wasn't working right when line of scrimmage was between the 35 and 40 yard line

August 31, 2024

Bug fixed: User Team can now click Ready To Play a game, even if the other team does not meet requirements to play
Bug fixed: Multiple bugs related to changing Team Logo in Team Options
Bug fixed: Users can now select the Card Art logo or the plain logo for any logos they have unlocked from collecting Team cards

August 30, 2024

Improvement: Players CSV download - now includes players with hidden OVR
Improvement: Now allowing GMs to schedule their own realtime games
Bug fixed: Player Stats - Passing Cmp% always displayed as 0

August 26, 2024

Improvement: New Game engine - slightly increased rushing yardages to more closely align to NFL rushing stats

August 24, 2024

Improvement: New Game engine - reduced rushing yardages to more closely align to NFL rushing stats
Improvement: New Game engine - increased pass yardages to more closely align to NFL passing stats

August 23, 2024

Improvement: Now additionally allowing GMs playing in the game to schedule their own realtime games
Bug fixed: Week will not advance if a non-admin user clicks Advance Week unless "Advance Week if User Games are Played" is enabled
Bug fixed: Various issues with Hard Mode revealing OVR
Bug fixed: Bugged Trade Block offers for the exact same player should not happen anymore

August 19, 2024

Improvement: New season schedules now create matchups based on previous season standings for season 2+ schedules for the three 1-game matchups between divisions

August 17, 2024

Improvement: Free Agents jersey number/icon is now black and white to differentiate from gray teams
Improvement: Added Patreon Subscribers to homepage
Bug fixed: Trade History season dropdown was cut off if there were no trades listed on the current page

August 14, 2024

Bug fixed: Prevent progression on undrafted free agents for that season
Bug fixed: Undrafted Free Agents were incorrectly aging +1 during season advance for their draft season

August 12, 2024

Bug fixed: Old draft challenge and leagues pending deletion will have their Discord channels deleted automatically

July 28, 2024

Bug fixed: Players Progression Chance percentages sometimes would be out of date. All players should update immediately on any relevant change, but now all players will also update during week advance
Bug fixed: League option Hide OVR (Hard Mode) wasn't working, but is now

July 19, 2024

Bug fixed: Players would not progress or regress at the end of their first season in the league (bug since July 10)
Improvement: Undrafted free agents now become free agents immediately after the draft is over
Improvement: Added Player History item for when players are Undrafted and become Free Agents

July 13, 2024

Bug fixed: Undrafted free agents with adaptable culture would have an empty culture after being signed

July 10, 2024

Improvements to Players Progression schedule:

Players: progression/regression moved from Week 22 to Week 31. NOTE: members of that year's rookie draft class are excluded. NOTE: leagues in week 22+ at the time of this update will have this change apply only to future seasons
Players and Coaches: age increase moved from week 22 to during season advance
Players: retirements still happen and contract/salary years still change (decrease by 1) in week 22
Coaches: Seasons Remaining (decrease by 1), Culture Boost progressions/regressions, and Retirements still happen week 22
These changes should make Re-Sign players more interesting, as there is now risk related to regression. Should create more Free Agents during bidding naturally
Added logic for CPU teams to not re-sign players sometimes, based on the above changes

New: added sortable Progression Report to Week 31 Season Summary. (Can view old seasons Progression Reports too, using Schedule dropdowns)
Removed League Awards from Week 31 Season Summary
Improvement: Free Agent Bidding - now only showing players 65+ OVR. This is needed because all rookies are converted to free agents since the May 10, 2024 update, and now the FA table is unnecessarily large
Improvement: Made a change to CPU drafting logic where they overvalued players who they had scouted many times
Improvement: Increased regression chance impact of Age (for older players)
Improvement: Undrafted FAs now have a random salary between $0.5M and $1M instead of $0.5M and $3M
Bug fixed: User OVR Display preference was not working for the Draft Board
Bug fixed: Undrafted free agents incorrectly cost 750 to reveal OVR instead of 250

July 5, 2024

Bug fixed: All Coaches CSV export did not include Culture properly
Improvement: Users who have been inactive for over 14 days now include a gray minus sign in their status indicator icon
Improvement: Users who have been inactive for over 30 days now include a gray cancel icon as their status indicator

July 4, 2024

Improvement: Added Culture filters and sorting to Scouting Reports and Rookie Draft Class tables
Bug fixed: Scouting reports for other teams could be viewed in rare circumstances
Bug fixed: Combine results sometimes were being displayed on Scouting Report view before Combine Results were released

June 26, 2024

Bug fixed: Couldn't update Next Advance time for a league on a mobile device

June 21, 2024

Minor correction to yesterday's QB scramble update. Scramble chance is based on QB speed and agility when under pressure
Bug fixed: Scroll issue on Manual Trades screen with dropdowns again

June 20, 2024

Bug fixed: Scroll issue on Manual Trades screen with dropdowns
Bug fixed: New Game engine - QB Scrambles were not able to happen, but now they are
Improvement: Manual trades - Future draft picks are now valued the same as this year's draft picks
Improvement: Manual trades - Reduced the trade value of the top few picks of the draft
Improvement: Manual trades - CPU teams are now more defensive/selfish in trades and value their own players/picks more
Improvement: Manual trades - Reduced trade value of K, P, and FB, and slightly reduced value of older players

June 17, 2024

Change Position - Offensive linemen can't change positions to non-OL positions, and non-OL positions can't change to OL
Fixed a bug during Re-Sign or Rookie Signing weeks that would sometimes advance the week unexpectedly causing players with 0 year contracts
Improved Mock Drafts - no longer picks the same position if there are multiple Round 1 picks

June 13, 2024

Bug fixed: When clicking Advance Week, the Users Ready modal sometimes wouldn't update until after 60 seconds

June 6, 2024

Bug fixed: Trying to set League Auto Advance gave an error
New: Added "Retired" badge next to player names
Bug fixed: Undrafted free agents combine results were incorrectly hidden

June 4, 2024

New: Added option to User Profile for unrevealed player OVR bars: OVR Bar or scouting reports array
Bug fixed: Undrafted rookies Combine Results were visible before Combine Results week
Bug fixed: Yards per Attempt (YPA) now excludes yards lost from sacks from the calculation

June 1, 2024

Manual Trades - all players are now shown with Raw OVR

May 31, 2024

Bug fixed: Pressures and blitzing players on pass plays were not displaying during realtime (live) games

May 30, 2024

Bug fixed: Scouting Reports text regarding players potential were always negative (old reports will not be updated)
Bug fixed: Players table checkboxes were not working correctly since the last update

May 28, 2024

Server web framework library upgrade - please report any found bugs in Discord!

May 25, 2024

New: Launched Patreon! Become a member to support the development and server costs of Progression Football, and earn in-game rewards!
New: Link Patreon button now available on homepage
Change: Buying Ad-free Days from the Store has been changed from 30 days to 10 days
Improvement: Store - "Buy For" dropdown now only shows the most recently active 300 users, and is sorted by most recently active users at the top to help the Store page load faster
Improvement: Made a change to improve speed during progression and regression code after the PFL Champ game
Bug fixed: When two human draft picks were in a row, and Sim CPU Picks Immediately was enabled, and a human manually drafted a player, the next pick was incorrectly simmed automatically
Bug fixed: Clicking Sim Pick or having the draft clock expire no longer marks the pick Forced, or the league uncompetitive
Improvement: Greatly improved load speed of Combine Results page
Improvement: Added position dropdown filter on Combine Results page
Improvement: Added Add to Draft Board button on Combine Results page

May 10, 2024

Improvement: All undrafted players in the rookie draft class now become free agents. Culture is automatically revealed, but salary is randomized
Improvement: Slightly reduced talent level in newly generated rookie draft classes

May 7, 2024

Bug fixed: Removed unused dropdowns from Trade History
Bug fixed/Improvement: Scouting Reports - sometimes, Accurate scouting reports were outside the scout's range

May 6, 2024

Bug fixed: Corrected incorrect help text under Upgrades modal
Improvement: If a coach is currently +1 CUL boost, they only need 9 wins instead of 10 to get upgraded to +2 at the end of the season

May 3, 2024

Bug fixed: Advance Week if User Games are Played (Regular Season only) was broken since yesterday's update

May 2, 2024

Bug fixed: Sim CPU Picks Immediately didn't work in fantasy draft
Bug fixed: Force Advance and Advance Week timer would auto reorder all depth charts in the league. Now only will do that to resolve roster/depth issues.

April 28, 2024

College Teams by Region pie chart - converted to a text table
Improvement: Un-did some of the server side caching added on April 5 to help improve site performance

April 25, 2024

Bug fixed: Adaptable culture now shows up in Scouting Reports CSV
Bug fixed: Awards Race and League News stat lines have been fixed
Bug fixed: In multiplayer leagues, clicking Ready to Advance would sometimes take up to 60 seconds to update in the Users Ready modal (now instant)

April 24, 2024

Reverted yesterday's play length change

April 23, 2024

Bug fixed: Power Rankings sometimes resulted in a Server Error
Improvement: Changed length of certain plays to increase play count per game to be more realistic (both engines)

April 22, 2024

Bug fixed: Sim CPU Draft Picks Immediately now works properly after a human user makes a manual pick
Bug fixed: Prevent manual trades with self (same team)
Improvement: Minimum player OVR bar to be able to read OVRs under 60

April 20, 2024

Bug fixed: Sometimes FA Bids were not getting created properly

April 19, 2024

Bug fixed: View Roster - Retired players did not work. Also fixed the CSV download for retired players
Bug fixed: Player CSV - fixed team name column
Bug fixed: Change Positions - clicking Change Position without an actual change no longer results in a Consistency penalty

April 16, 2024

New: Some undrafted rookies will have an Adaptable culture. Their culture will be set to match the coach of whatever team drafts them! (Star icon for Culture)
Bug fixed: Undrafted rookies with Adaptable culture had a broken Player page (unable to draft)
Improvement: Rookie culture is now revealed immediately when they are drafted
Bug fixed: League option Require Users Ready was not working for user vs user games
Bug fixed: Play Recognition bonuses were not working for either engine since the April 5 update

April 15, 2024

Bug fixed: Viewing the Schedule or Games in the past showed the team's current record, not their record at that time
Bug fixed: CPU teams would not automatically fix their rosters before a game if they made a trade to break their depth chart that same week
Improvement: All free agents show up during Free Agent Bidding instead of only those over 70 OVR

April 9, 2024

Bug fixed: Manual Trades - Trading draft picks sometimes resulted in a 500 server error

April 8, 2024

Made a change to server-side caching to hopefully improve the performance of the site overall

April 7, 2024

Bug fixed: Creating new leagues would sometimes fail
Bug fixed: Performance issues around Manual Trades screen
Bug fixed: DE, G, T were not included in the New game sim engine

April 6, 2024

Bug fixed: Fantasy Draft caused server errors
Bug fixed: Sorting by certain columns on the Scouting screen caused Server Error

April 5, 2024

I'm not proud of how long this update took. I learned and grew as a developer, and what I learned can basically can be summarized as "keep future updates more focused and more frequent".
The game isn't perfect yet, but we're getting closer! Please keep giving your feedback and ideas in Discord!
Sorry for the delay since the last update, but I am still committed to making Progression Football the best football sim available! Thanks for playing!

New: PFL Merch is now available! Thank you for your support!
New: The game is now accessible via alternate address: PFL-go.com
New: New League option - Added Starting Coach Boosts option (default 0, or randomized like Draft Challenge)
New: Major Game Sim Update! New Game Sim Engine!

Added Game Sim Engine option to League Admin. (Legacy or New). This is a temporary option until the New engine is finalized
All leagues will default to Legacy for now. Choose New to opt-in and share your thoughts with me on Discord!
Major rewrite of all pass and run play logic for the New game engine!
The engine now considers attributes of individual player matchups on the field (blocker vs. pass rusher, WR vs CB, TE vs LB), which all change depending on formations, play types, and blitzing players.
Previously, the engine relied on averages of relevant players instead of specific individual matchups between players.
This should highlight and expose skill gaps between player matchups better than before. For example, a low rated CB1 vs elite WR1 should see the WR with success for that game
Each play now assigns individual player assignments (blocker, passer, receiver route long, pass rusher, etc) instead of "percentage weight".
This opens up future opportunities for custom plays/formations/playbooks, as well as players playing "out of position" someday
Added play details including pass blockers who get beat, run blockers when they pancake a defender, pass rushers who apply pressure, and which player is blitzing
Added Blocking to Stats and Team Players Stats views
With each player having individual assignments, blitzing should be more accurate. The additional pass rusher decreases pass coverage for that play
QB sack avoidance is influenced by QB Agility and Mental
QB scrambling is influenced by QB Speed
Fumbles are influenced by Carrying ability
NOTE: "HB rec %" currently does nothing in the New Game Sim Engine so it is hidden from Team Options using the New engine. Player assignments are defined by the Play in the new engine. More plays and customization is planned for the future.
NOTE: There's more I want to do to improve the Game Engine, but I had to draw a line to get this update released! This update lays the foundation to make exciting future updates possible.
I'm open to feedback and suggestions, please offer them in Discord #ideas channel!

New: Added ability for League Admins to re-generate the season's game schedule (only available during Week 1 and not available if any games have been played)
Improvement: New League Creation - now gets created in the background instead of staring at the loading screen for 2 minutes. League status will be "creating" until completed
Improvement: Game Stats now shows the OVR "roll" of each player for that game, after factoring Consistency, Home Field Advantage, and all other boosts (newly simmed games only)
Improvement: Added "Accurate?"" column to scouting reports after OVR has been revealed to show if a scouting report was accurate or not
Improvement: Coaches with +2 CUL impact that make a playoff appearance will no longer have their CUL impact downgraded, regardless of their team's record
Improvement: Play Recognition: +1 OVR every 10 similar plays instead of 12
Improvement: Evaluate Players - can now be done for any un-revealed player if they have a contract, regardless of week
Improvement: Records - Storylines will only show up starting season 1 week 10 at the earliest, to prevent spam
Improvement: Players with hidden OVR now show scouting report values available to the current user instead of an OVR bar
Improvement: Free Agents can now be signed regardless of salary cap. However, that team still cannot start a game until the team is under the cap
Improvement: Change Position form now shows the what the new Raw OVR would be for each position
Improvement: Trade Interest Guage added to completed/rejected manual trades
Improvement: Increased the frequency of better players in newly generated rookie draft classes
Improvement: Realtime games - commercial breaks are now limited to a maximum of 6 per half
Improvement: Improved efficiency of MANY areas of code and increased use of server-side caching to help make the site faster
Improvement: Added Raw OVR to list of toggle columns in Players tables
Improvement: Added "Sim CPU Draft Picks Immediately" option to Leagues
Improvement: Players now check and upgrade Consistency every week instead of only weeks 8 and 16
Improvement: 4th Down Options now additionally apply if there are less than 10 seconds remaining in the half, regardless of down
Improvement: Evaluate Players cost is now cheaper for non-rookies, scaled by Years Pro
Improvement: Discord Financial Supporters role (Discord gold nameplate) will be automatically added to all users with the Moneybags achievement
Improvement: Added a note regarding private leagues if the user is looking at the Teams list
Improvement: Progression Chance - Age no longer has positive impact. Age now only has negative impact.
Improvement: Progression Chance - Years Pro has been added as a factor (positive impact only). Boost is scaled by years pro, with 0 (rookie) having the biggest boost, and 3 having the lowest boost. No boost after 3 years pro.
Bug fixed: Users could erroneously be allowed to pick twice if two Players were open in different tabs during the draft (Hotfixed 2/2/24)
Bug fixed: League admins could see unrevealed players Culture, Salary, and Consistency via the Edit Player form (Hotfixed 2/2/24)
Bug fixed: Advance Clock now shows up during draft week before and after all picks are done
Bug fixed: Messages sent to "All League Teams" now include the team sending the message
Bug fixed: Duplicate Discord league channels will now be automatically deleted
Bug fixed: Combine results could sometimes be accessed early
Bug fixed: All OT FGs are now Pressure Kicks
Bug fixed: Added horizontal scrolling for smaller screens
Bug fixed: Homepage list of leagues would sometimes show the Delete League button when it shouldn't
Bug fixed: When Advance Week timer runs out OR when admin clicks Force Advance, only teams actually needing fixes should get automatically changed (including depth chart)
Please report any issues to me in #bug-reports on Discord!

November 3, 2023

Improved FG, extra point, and punting algorithms to be more realistic
Prevented Official League plays from being deleted after 2 seasons
Bugfix: Viewing old drafts via Schedule will now update properly after rookie OVRs are revealed

September 5, 2023

Bug fix: Draft Order / Draft table would sometimes not update after draft picks were traded (caching issue)

August 31, 2023

Improvement: Added more minutes options to Draft Clock
Improvement: Added 12-hour option to Advance Week Every schedule

August 24, 2023

Improvement: Draft Challenge - Coaches now have more OVR boosts
Improvement: Draft - implemented server-side caching to reduce server load during multiplayer live drafts
Bug fix: Fixed a crash related to awards without a team associated
Bug fix: Manual Trades - CPU players were incorrectly valued at 0 if your Sim Roster was enabled

August 10, 2023

Bug fix: Manual Trades - CPU teams were valuing culture backwards
Bug fix: Manual Trades - Value specified next to players in dropdowns is now accurate based on the other team in the trade
Bug fix: Manual Trades - CPU teams now value their own players with a minimum trade value of 10 instead of 0
Bug fix: Player view - Clicking column headers when there is only 1 player in the table no longer results in a 500 error

August 9, 2023

Now allowing teams to change their city or logo any time during week 1 or the off-season, instead of only weeks 1 or 31

August 6, 2023

New: Updated realistic rosters
Bug fix: New leagues now start players on teams correctly at -7 CHM
Improvement: K and P minimum CHM is now 0 instead of -7 because they don't have much to adjust between teams
Improvement: All players now get reset to 0 CHM when cut, instead of -7. Players still will get set to -7 CHM when joining a new team (except K/P)
Improvement: Updated salary value calculation, and all players (except newly drafted rookies) new salary value calculations are now based on OVR_RAW instead of OVR
NOTE: K/P with negative chemistry mods will get set to 0 on next week advance

August 4, 2023

New: Feature Voting!

Added ability to create new feature suggestions
Use coins to fund development of Progression Football by voting on which features you want to see next!
Features at the top of the list will be given priority by the developer!
Thank You for supporting my game!
Disclaimer: Not all features are 100% guaranteed to be added to the game, regardless of funding. But I'll do my best!

Bug fix: Duplicate All-Pro awards were sometimes awarded (hotfixed 7/25)

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