Improvement: Week 25 Re-Sign players - after all players have been re-signed, that team automatically is Ready for Week 26 (don't have to manually click Advance Week anymore)
Improvement: Added a message on Week 26 Free Agent Bidding to click Advance Week if you don't want to make any offers
June 22, 2021
New: Added Team History view showing team records, playoff stats, championship wins, and past season results including coaches and best players that year
New: Added Tackles for Loss stat tracking
Improvement: Renamed History to League History
Improvement: Changed Submit button to Submit Playbook Changes to reduce confusion. Button disabled until a textbox change is made
Bug fix: Coach OVR Boost for Punters did not work (hotfixed 6/12)
Bug fix: Sometimes leagues failed to advance past week 20 (hotfixed 6/12)
June 6, 2021
Improvement: Added buttons at the bottom of all tables for manual data export to CSV or Excel
June 5, 2021
Improvement: Added a hover for OVR bars with details explaining OVR and consistency
Improvement: Added GM username under team name for Team Info banners
Improvement: Increased the webpage width to improve UI
Improvement: Improved Messages UI - sortable table, and show player position, OVR, age next to names, added Dashboard button
New: Added Unread Messages indicator to top of Dashboard
New: Starting now, tracking number of plays, and number of games for ALL players including offensive linemen, for each week/career
New: Contract Length and Salary Re-design
Longer salaries are now MORE expensive. 1yr is now the cheapest contract option, 4yr is the most expensive
To prevent all GMs from exclusively offering 1yr salaries, Player Happiness was added (see below)
GMs now have to "find it in the budget" to give players more money (larger contracts) to make them happy to be part of the team
Cost algorithm for salary value has been changed to be more dramatic to make salary decisions more difficult
Players with multiple awards will now demand slightly more money
Added custom Years option (1-4) to Free Agent Bidding
Now keeping track of last contract length instead of only number of years remaining
Now keeping track of total contract value (contract years x salary)
Added "Big Contract" Storyline
These changes should make retaining top-tier talent AND keeping them all happy more challenging for GMs
New: Player Happiness
Added an additional modifier on all players called Happiness (HAP)
Can affect a player's OVR from -2 to +2
Default Happiness for all new leagues and existing players: None (+0). Only GM decisions impact Happiness
Currently based on contract length (longer and more money = happier), and play time
Re-signing now affects Happiness:
4 year contract: +2 HAP
3 year contract: +1 HAP
2 year contract: +0 HAP
1 year contract: -1 HAP
Players with a decrease in playtime compared to last year results in -1 Happiness
Players who were early round draft picks will have higher expectations for play time and may affect their happiness more
Added Happiness indicators to Re-Signing salary dropdown options
Players who win Awards gain +1 Happiness
Free Agents Happiness is +0, but goes to +1 when signed (also includes FA Bidding and rookie contracts)
Known Issue, won't fix: Player messages and their "last contract" length might be slightly off for existing leagues until players are re-signed again
May 22, 2021
Improvement: Added Created and Approximate Sim Weeks per Day columns to leagues list, and changed date formats to be relative. (Hover for old date format)
Improvement: Important/Interesting storylines are now highlighted with a different color (hotfixed 5/21)
Improvement: Added more descriptive text for Adjustments
Improvement: Added Show OVR option to Edit Player
Improvement: Players who retire after suffering a career-ending injury, whose team wins the Championship that season, now receive a Championship award
Bug fix: Player view - awards, injuries, and IR icons now stay on the same line
Bug fix: Adjustments value was incorrectly limited to 100 (hotfixed 5/21)
Bug fix: Edit player - empty fields are no longer required, and are simply ignored
May 21, 2021
Bug fix: Pick Player button sometimes did not appear when user was on the clock
Bug fix: Sometimes players did not get their OVR revealed after starting 3 games
Bug fix: Sometimes the Salaries bar and "Raise" column values were inaccurate during Re-sign players and Sign Rookies views
Bug fix: All game sims would crash starting season 128
Bug fix: Error sometimes when Draft Bust Storylines were getting created (Hotfixed 5/20)
Improvement: List all leagues on home page using paginated tables
Improvement: Rookie contracts are now only based on draft pick number, regardless of scouted OVR. Top picks cost more, later picks cost less.
Improvement: Increased number of coach offers from 4 to 6. Also slightly changed the calculation for how coaches accept offers.
Improvement: Decreased chance for better players players to retire, increased chance for worse players to retire
Improvement: Increased chance for older players to regress
Improvement: Slightly increased FG make % by making Kicker OVR affect the chance more
Improvement: Rookie contract signing week 29 - Player history now says "Signed rookie contract" instead of "Re-signed"
Improvement: Slightly decreased the default injury chance
Improvement: Made Injury Report menu item always visible, even if injuries have been set to None
New: Added Injuries slider for custom injury frequency with 6 options: None, Few, Less, Normal, More, Many
New: Added In-Game Adjustments
Added options at the bottom of the Team Options view
Multiply run play rate or pass play rate for the rest of the game based on stats at halftime
Head Coach will send an in-game Message if adjustments are made, explaining what happened
May 11, 2021
Bug fix: Playoff Round 2 games always had the wrong Home team
Bug fix: Game simulations would crash sometimes if users manually edited OVR of players very low
Improvement: More interesting Storylines at the top of the list
Improvement: Changed calculations to reduce frequency of defensive players winning yearly awards
May 8, 2021
Bug fix: Now enforcing unique league names for new leagues
May 7, 2021
Bug fix: Fixed error when typing in non-numeric characters on Advanced Playbook
Bug fix: Progression Chance is now updated after manually editing a Player
Bug fix: Stats not showing correctly for some Storylines
Bug fix: Fixed many leagues that should have been marked Uncompetitive
Improvement: More Storylines each week
Improvement: Draft Clock improvements
Improvement: Added Team dropdown to Edit Player to instantly change a player's team or set to Free Agent (Uncompetitive)
May 4, 2021
Bug fix: Player of the Game was incorrectly limited to QB, HB, or K. Now it can be any player with game stats
Bug fix: Force Sim Pick button now appears correctly for the league Admin
Improvement: Changed some calculations to slightly reduce stats for MLB on defense
Improvement: Changed some calculations for Yearly Awards and Player of the Game
Improvement: Player Stats and Team Stats are now available for all seasons! (Not only the most recent 2 seasons)
Improvement: Players can no longer earn multiple yearly awards in the same year
Improvement: Draft Clock is now visible during all drafts, even if there is no timer
Improvement: Draft Clock - general improvements... complicated stuff for multiple players, waiting for draft sim, refreshing pages, etc
Improvement: Modified Scouting OVR windows to make lower levels more useful:
Level 0: ±40
Level 1: ±30 and Age
Level 2: ±21 (previously: 25) and Culture
Level 3: ±15 (previously: 21)
Level 4: ±11 (previously: 16)
Level 5: ±8 (previously: 11)
Level 6: ±6 (previously: 8)
Level 7: ±5 and Consistency grade
April 30, 2021
Bug fix: Sorting Injury Report by Team mixed up the two Los Angeles teams (hotfixed 4/27)
Bug fix: 500 error sometimes when viewing Manual Trades (hotfixed 4/27)
New: Added Division Standings to Dashboard
New: Added Force Sim Draft Pick button (Admin only; will make league Uncompetitive)
New: Added Draft Clock
User picks will auto-pick if draft clock expires to prevent inactive players from blocking drafts (especially will keep multiplayer Fantasy Drafts moving)
New leagues: default 30 minutes per user pick (CPU picks are still near-instant)
Existing leagues: no draft clock unless Admin updates it
Added Admin options for Draft Clock, but can't edit the Draft Clock settings during a draft
The draft will only auto-pick if the draft clock expires and at least 1 league user is viewing the Schedule during the draft
(otherwise, the draft will "pause" until a league user views the Schedule)
Improvement: Automatically deleting old Discord channels for leagues that no longer exist
April 22, 2021
Improvement: User teams can now trade while over the salary cap
Improvement: When players recover from injury, there will be a notification as well as a Message sent to user team managers
Improvement: Individual player stats table updated to include Team column
April 21, 2021
Improvement: Added more Storylines to the Dashbaord!
Last Second FG
Last Second TD
Overtime Scoring plays
10+ point Comeback
High Scoring Game
Low Scoring Game
Blowout Games
Draft Busts
Draft Gems
Improvement: Added team logos to all scoring plays in All Plays section
Bug fix: Gray screen when trying to add or kick members of a league after the searchable dropdown update from April 18th
April 18, 2021
Improvement: [League Admin only] Added searchable Users list for Admin view (Users dropdowns for Invite/Kick/Give Admin)
Improvement: [League Admin only] Added dropdown options for Player and Coach first and last names. (Sorry, manually typing names is still not an option due to legal concerns)
Improvement: Slightly increased frequency and max OVR for elite rookie draft class players (to discourage trading away picks)
Improvement: Increased minimum cost for OVR and DEV boost
Bug fix: Overtime rules are more accurate (not simply first score wins)
Bug fix: Fix Back button stuck on loading screen if browser Back button is clicked
April 14, 2021
Improvement: Players history items now show when a player was signed from a bid
Improvement: All Players history items now show the exact week instead of "Offseason"
Improvement: Added Points to Team Info bar, added words to Team Needs and upgrades buttons to help users notice them
Improvement: During Fantasy Draft: changed button text from "Advance to Regular Season" to "Start Draft" because it was confusing
Bug fix: CPU controlled teams would incorrectly immediately sign free agents if a user-controlled team Cut a player during Free Agent Bidding week
Bug fix: Sign button was incorrectly available for free agents before Week 27
Bug fix: Playoff Round 1 games would sometimes be incorrect if division winners had unusually bad records. Now more consistent
Bug fix: CPUs and users were incorrectly allowed to Evaluate Players after drafting and before signing rookies
Bug fix: Sim Extra Team Points wasn't running before progression happened. Now it does
Bug fix: Draft Boards - Min Round dropdown now supports Fantasy Draft (more than 7 rounds)
Bug fix: Manual Trades - completed Manual Trades correctly show players even if they moved to other teams (viewing existing completed trades won't update, sorry)
April 13, 2021
Improvement: Upgraded the website server to support more concurrent users!
Improvement: Removed "Our Players" button for speed improvement
Improvement: Made home page / Leagues list load faster
Bug fix: Upgrades screen dropdown was too wide on Firefox
Improvement: Database/code improvements to support many concurrent users all at once! Specifically, multiple league creations at once. (Sorry for all the 500 errors)
Improvement: For new league creations: hide leagues that did not get fully created successfully
Improvement: Added instructions for Free Agent Bidding view
April 6, 2021
New: Added option to Randomize Name (rename) coaches
Improvement: Added a tip for simming drafts
Bug fix: 500 error when looking at old drafts where players have since retired
Bug fix: Renaming a player incorrectly removed him from Depth Chart
April 3, 2021
Progression Football reaches 3 years of game development! (Started April 2018)
New: Coaches - major update!
Coaches can now be fired and offered/hired to different teams, and retire after their Seasons Remaining reaches 0
Coaches bring their own Culture, Culture Impact, and Coach Boosts to the team they coach. This means Team cultures can change!
Coaches keep their Coach Boosts (OVR and Dev boosts) with them, as well as their culture.
Culture Impact progresses/regresses based on coach performance. Winning seasons increase +1, losing seasons -1
Admins can set Min and Max Culture Impact for coaches in their league, as well as default starting values (all the same, or random)
Changed Coach Boost cost algorithm. Cost now based on coach seasons remaining, position of the boost, and current coach culture impact
Coach Firing, Hiring, and Summary weeks inserted into schedule (Weeks 22, 23, 24)
Added positional Coach Boost details and Coach History table to individual Coach view
Added generated names to all coaches
Improvement: Website session lifetime (auto-logout) increased from 2 hours to 48 hours
Improvement: Removed OVR_MIN and OVR_MAX from Scouting. Only the Guess is visible now
Improvement: Changed Scouting Window for each Scouting level. Maximum scouting now has a window of 5 OVR instead of 3 OVR.
Improvement: Added earned Awards to Players/Coaches History tables, and Stats views
Improvement: Added optional checkbox to Show Results before clicking Play Game
Improvement: New leagues are Private by default
Bug fix: Draft order was not based on rank since March 14 update (hotfixed 3/18)
Bug fix: Editing players to OVR above 99 caused Server Error (hotfixed 3/19)
Bug fix: Server error trying to submit playbook with blank/empty boxes (hotfixed 3/27)
Bug fix: Server error trying to check Standings before any games played
Bug fix: Team logos incorrectly set to ??? when quitting Managing a team
Bug fix: Prevent infinite loading icon when there are Javascript table errors
March 17, 2021
Bug fix: Stuck loading on week 22
March 14, 2021
Improvement: Game Results are shown by default unless Play Game is clicked
Improvement: Overall performance improvements to underlying code - trying to make pages load faster, hopefully it's noticeable
Bug fix: Server error when trying to view fantasy draft in Schedule view while not logged in
March 6, 2021
New: Culture icon for the team and matching players will have color (instead of black) if the Culture card is owned by the Manager
Improvement: Free Agents will have their OVR revealed automatically after week 20, if they have 2 or more years pro
Improvement: Added highlight effects to Schedule/Current Week links during Season 1 Week 1 to help guide new users
Bug fix: Issues with Discord integration not working right - should auto-correct itself after this update
Bug fix: Sometimes yearly awards would get awarded twice
Bug fix: Some links not showing loading animation
Bug fix: Culture Icon achievements incorrectly earned without having the card
March 5, 2021
New: Added new Team Customization section to the League Admin view
League Admin can use their own cards to set location or team logo of any team in the league
League Admin can change abbreviations for any team in the league
League Admin can change any of these settings at any time via the Admin view
New: Location cards can be used to change the location of a team you manage using Team Options view
New: Team cards can be used to change the logo of a team you manage using Team Options view
NOTE: Non-admins can only change their managed team's location or logo during week 1 or 27
NOTE: Duplicate team locations are allowed, but the Admin has the ability to change them
NOTE: Duplicate team names (logos) are not allowed. This is to preserve league fidelity
NOTE: Team locations and logos will revert to their defaults if a manager quits managing that team
Bug Fix: Edit Player form would sometimes cause a server error. Added some input validation
March 2, 2021
Improvement: Changed "Disciplined" culture to "Strategic" (matches the culture icon more anyway)
Bug Fix: Players sometimes appeared on two depth charts after trading them
Bug Fix: Minor Team Points bug after yesterday's update
March 1, 2021
Improvement: Salaries views for Teams has been renamed to Salary Cap Space
Improvement: Week Auto-Advance for multiplayer leagues will continue through week 19 instead of stopping after week 16
Bug fix: Sometimes players not on the team showed up in the depth chart dropdowns
Bug fix: Team records incorrectly always showed up as (0-0) in Game view
Bug fix: New league form incorrectly allowed blank names
Bug fix: Server error when editing players
Added Achievements!
Achievements can only be earned in competitive leagues
Added Achievement Library to see all the available achievements
Most achievements are not retroactive
Added the Store!
Coins can be purchased using a variety of payment methods
Card packs and Ad-Free Days can be purchased using coins
Added email verification (required before coin purchases)
Added logic to hide ads if Ad-Free days were purchased
All coin purchases will fund the development and server costs of Progression Football! Thank you!
Added Cards and Card Packs!
One Set initially available: Beta Set!
Two card packs initially available:
150 coins - Beta Card Pack (1st Edition)
100 coins - Beta Card Pack
1st Edition card packs will only be sold for a limited time (exact time has not been determined yet)
Beta Set card packs will only be sold for a limited time (exact time has not been determined yet)
Each card pack includes 7 cards, with a guarantee of 1 Rare card!
Card rarities include Common, Uncommon, and Rare
Added Customization Options!
There are two new Locations and two new Team logos available hidden in the Beta Card Packs!
Customization options are available in the Team Options view after collecting the new cards
Only new logos and locations can be used to customize a team. No duplicates in the same league, and no switching to a default team location or logo
Updated User View
Added tabs for Achievements, Leagues, and Cards for all to see!
Added option to update email to support email verification
February 8, 2021
Improvement: CPUs will now sometimes change a player's position instead of signing a free agent to fill depth chart needs
Improvement: CPUs will no longer put injured players on the trade block
Improvement: Added logic for CPUs to try to retain high-talent players more often instead of cutting them
Improvement: Added awards column to Retired Players view Week 21
Improvement: Added logic to show player's historical position in Player History table (not retroactive; new events only)
Improvement: When changing a player's position, the Player History event will show ovr_raw was changed "from position change", not the user (not retroactive; new events only)
February 4, 2021
Improvement: Improved hover effects around some table links
January 30, 2021
New: Retired players who have no stats and were never on a team will be permanently deleted to reduce database size
New: Added delete league button to leagues list, if user is admin
Improvement: Retired players will now show the team they played the most games with (player and stats views)
Bug fix: Server error when trying to modify league settings
Bug fix: Non-league users no longer cause the Last Played date to get updated during the draft
January 29, 2021
New: Added more Team Options for more control/customization over Sim options
Improvement: Quitting managing a team, and then managing a different team, will now mark the league as Uncompetitive
Bug fix: Protect against server errors when a league is not found
Bug fix: League award winners had the wrong OVR bar color if they also retired that year
January 28, 2021
Improvement: Added Pick Player button to the top of the Draft screen
Bug fix: Loading animation stuck when trying to change a player's position
January 26, 2021
New: All players now have a Max Raw OVR. This value is completely hidden and never changes. Some players will just stop progressing once their Max Raw OVR is reached.
GMs will have to make the call if a player has reached their maximum potential and the team should move on, or keep trying to progress him.
Truly great players are now going to be special! Also, it prevents GMs from being able to exclusively decide which players will succeed.
NOTE: Draft, coach, and culture boosts are always applied, and are not affected by this new value (Max Raw OVR only affects Raw OVR)
(Thanks to ubwr for the idea)
New: Added reminders in Upgrade and Progression Chance modals about the new Max Raw OVR mechanic
New: Scouting level upgrade now costs 1000 points
New: Progression cap upgrade now costs 1000 points
New: Added "Latest Realistic players" option when creating a new league
New: Added quantity option for Scouting and Progression Cap upgrades
New: Added new schedule graphic on Schedule screen
Improvement: CPUs now value player age more, incoming draft pick offers less, and outgoing draft picks more during manual trades
Improvement: CPUs now use better playbooks
Improvement: Changed logic for how CPUs spend team points
Improvement: Added Scouting Level and Progression Cap to Teams list
Improvement: Re-wrote/optimized lots of code to make the whole game a little faster
Improvement: Moved Users links to the bottom of the left sidebar
Improvement: Removed Re-Sign events from Dashboard Transactions table
Improvement: Made some minor changes to rushing play simulations to make them more realistic
Bug fix/Improvement: Depth charts will never reorder any position if Sim Depth Chart is disabled (previously would re-order individual positions after injuries and signings)
EXCEPTION: During Fantasy Draft
Bug fix: Team Needs sometimes accidentally revealed OVR of players with hidden OVR
Bug fix: Loading spinner was hidden when clicking Upgrade Team buttons
Bug fix: CPU teams would put all injured players on the trade block because they were not on the depth chart
Bug fix: Clicking position name in Player History table now brings you to that team's roster, not the whole league
...Also: Wrote code for some new features that will be in an upcoming release!
December 20, 2020
Bug fix: Changed Player Actions dropdown to a button and modal to fix a bug with some Actions not showing up
Improvement: Team Points are now only awarded for regular season games (through week 16), not playoffs
Improvement: Removed "Previously Cut" free agent signing restrictions (salary cap penalties should serve this purpose)
December 19, 2020
Bug fix: Dev Boost and OVR Boost costs were sometimes not getting charged correctly
Bug fix: Players traded mid-season would have multiple entries in Player Stats
Improvement: Player and Team Stats - Kicking - default table sort is now best Made%
December 14, 2020
New: Most of the website (all leagues, and including Dashboard) are now publicly viewable without logging in
Improvement: Moved current league status away from top bar and into the left sidebar
Improvement: Changed some button colors to match user team color
Bug fix: Rookie OVR was displaying the wrong value in Team Needs modal before OVR was revealed
December 12, 2020
New: Added Career Ending Injuries
New: Added buttons to auto re-order depth chart for individual positions
New: Allow admins to manually edit a player's culture (uncompetitive action)
Bug fix: Fixed Retired players view: defaults to view single position, default sort by OVR
Bug fix: Forced manual trades were sometimes not counting as uncompetitive league edits
Improvement: Players who recover from an injury will have that team's depth chart automatically re-ordered for that position only
Improvement: Fixed default column sort directions for Standings page
Improvement: Limit Roster view to most recent 100 player history events (faster page loads)
Improvement: More consistent (larger) team logos inside all tables
Improvement: All new injuries will expire after week 21 to allow better team building in the offseason
Improvement: League admin edits that make leagues uncompetitive can now be clicked and viewed from the Leagues list
Improvement: Database changes for how forced admin changes (uncompetitive edits) are tracked
Bug fixed: After a fantasy draft, user-managed teams had an empty playbook causing game sims to fail
Bug fixed: All time Player and Team stats were not properly being updated since 11/30/2020
Bug fixed: Yearly awards were sometimes not being created after the Championship game
Bug fixed: Fantasy Draft would always start automatically when viewing Schedule for the first time
Bug fixed: Draft - Revealed OVR was sometimes out of range of the scouted OVR range
Bug fixed: Team Stats - Conference logos would sometimes not load
Improvement: Updated all team logos to be SVG files instead of PNGs - all team logos are HD and crisp instead of blurry
Improvement: Draft/Fantasy Draft - CPUs will sometimes draft Best Player Available instead of their roster need
Improvement: Draft/Fantasy Draft - CPUs will draft more important positions sooner than others
Improvement: CPU teams will update their playbook every week (based on their roster)
Improvement: Leagues List - will show "Fantasy Draft" instead of "Season 0, Week 0"
Improvement: Fantasy Draft - Increased chance for CPUs to draft players that match their team's culture
Improvement: Fantasy Draft - When browsing players to pick, only show the top 50 (faster page loads)
November 22, 2020
Increased chance for CPUs to draft rookies that match their team's culture
Add Rookies view to Players
November 19, 2020
Changed default sort ordering on tables to make some "Descending" on first click
November 14, 2020
Fixed a bug when trying to add a Discord username to a profile
Modify database to allow more than 255 plays in a single game
Discord bot messages now include team emojis
November 12, 2020
Added hover glow effects to most clickable elements
Added Discord icon to leagues that have a Discord channel in Leagues list
November 6, 2020
New team upgrade option: Evaluate Player - cost 750 points to reveal OVR of a player on your team with hidden OVR
(You can still reveal a player's OVR for free if they play in 3 games)
Added logic for CPUs to Evaluate Players sometimes
Added logic for CPUs to value players with hidden OVR slightly higher when re-ordering their depth chart
Fixed a bug with pop-ups flickering sometimes
November 2, 2020
Added LIVE "Watch Game" feature - after clicking "Play Game", all game results are hidden - click Watch Game at the bottom to see the game play before your eyes!
Watch Game - Allow for changing speed between plays during the game, without reloading the page
Fixed bug - sometimes scouted OVR Guess was outside the scouting level range
Fixed bug - scouting OVR range was not always correct for the scouting level
Game - All Plays now shows score at end of quarters and halftime
At the end of a season, only 20% of undrafted rookies (random) become free agents
Added Force Trade option for Admins only (this makes a league uncompetitive)
Optimized repeated database queries - should be a little faster now
Standardized views a little more
Moved league status to a column on the left for Leagues lists
Deleting cap penalty history from the database for old seasons - this was slowing things down
Dashboard - Added trades and IR events to Transactions
Fixed bug - now users can only Advance Week from Schedule or Game views
Optimized some functions to only update if there is a change - trying to increase speed
October 1, 2020
Added "Min round" option to draft board - The player will not get drafted before this round.
Fixed a bug where OVR bars were not changing to the team's color on the Draft Board for players already drafted
Added Watch Game feature
September 30, 2020
Added Draft Limits - This will limit how many players to automatically draft from the draft board at a certain position.
Fixed a bug when clicking up or down arrows on Draft Board players
Fixed a bug where the offense would not kick a FG on the last play of the game if the game was tied
September 29, 2020
CPU teams no longer randomly cut opposite culture players to force Free Agents during week 22. This was necessary before salaries were implemented but not anymore.
Draft Boost no longer grants any OVR boost. Instead, a boost to Progression is granted with the same expiration rules (only while the player is on the team that drafted them).
The 20% salary reduction for previously drafted players has been reduced to 10%. Freshly drafted rookies still get a one-time 20% reduction, but only for their rookie contract.
Increased probability of CPU teams increasing Scouting and Progression Cap instead of Coach Boosts
CPU teams now do a better job using up all their team points every season instead of sometimes wasting some
Scouting Upgrade is now statically set to 2000 points. The cost does not change throughout the season. This idea may be returned in the future.
September 26, 2020
Fixed a bug where if a kicker got injured on an extra point play, it would cause that game to get stuck and unable to sim
Reduced the OVR penalty for switching a player to a similar position
Renamed "QBR" to "RTG" because we are actually using Passer Rating, not Quarterback Rating
August 16, 2020
Added Injuries
Each game, all players who played in the game have a tiny % chance to become injured
NOTE: For simplicity, players' injury status will only be applied after the game is over.
Injuries prevent players from being included in the Depth Chart
Players can be added to Injured Reserve (IR). They are ineligible to play until the next season, but their salary does not count against their team's Cap.
Added CPU teams logic to deal with injuries and IR
Added Injury Report view to sidebar
Added Injuries On/Off to New League form and Admin view
Fixed a bug where players on the roster but not currently on the depth chart would not show up in the dropdowns
August 13, 2020
Progression Updates
Added small graph in player tables for Progression Chance (PC)
PC graphs are clickable to show details about progression for that player, and what factors are influencing his developmenet
Standardized Team Upgrades screen, added Upgrade Help button
Removed previous Team "Dev" upgrade
Added Progression Cap upgrade - resets every season. Limits how much players can progress that season.
Added Coach Dev Boost section (per position) to Team Upgrades screen - permanent impact to Dev for that position, up to 5 levels
Color-coded OVR boosts as green and Dev boosts as blue across the site
Slightly increased CON for newly generated undrafted rookies
Updated Coaches view to show OVR boosts and Dev boosts
Re-added Player History table underneath Team player tables
Scouting Updates
Added new scouting variable "OVR SCOUT GUESS", which is a random value from within the scouting window for the current scouting level, and is always unlocked
Increased "penalty" for not scouting! Certain information is hidden until Scouting is upgraded:
Level 0: OVR range: 45. Age, Consistency, and Culture are hidden
Changed defense play recognition temporary OVR boosts to activate every 12 plays with the same formation and play type (instead of 10)
August 3, 2020
Stats now update immediately after games instead of during week advancement
August 1, 2020
Fixed a bug causing a crash when trying to edit players
Added Quarters to game simulation! Teams will react accordingly at the end of the half.
Added coin toss to beginning of game and end of regulation
Improved CPU playbook logic
July 31, 2020
Fixed a bug with draft board when a user team had multiple picks in the same round
Fixed a bug where free agents sometimes had "Add to Draft Board" button showing
July 29, 2020
CPUs now consider CON when valuing players
Auto Depth Chart now considers CON when ranking players
July 25, 2020
Added Defensive Play Recognition
During a game, if the offense runs the same formation and play (run or pass) too many times, all defensive players will receive a temporary OVR increase
for the remainder of that game.
After 10 plays of the same formation and play, the opposing defense gets OVR +1 for the remainder of the game
After 20 plays of the same formation and play, the opposing defense gets an additional OVR +2 for the remainder of the game
After 30 plays of the same formation and play, the opposing defense gets an additional OVR +3 for the remainder of the game
Etc...
This should encourage teams to balance their rosters, and diversitize their playbook
This is a penalty for one-dimentional teams (who do all run/all pass, or only certain formations)
July 24, 2020
Added Draft Board
Add undrafted rookies to Draft Board and organize them by rank.
During the draft, players will be auto-drafted from the Draft Board, if available.
Players can be added to the Draft Board at any time during the season, or during the draft.
This should help multiplayer leagues draft faster.
July 18, 2020
Added new Players option during new league creation: 2020 Realistic Players
July 17, 2020
Playoff Bracket now shows team with first-round bye in Round 2 during Round 1 of the playoffs
Playoff Bracket now updates showing the winner advancing after each playoff game
July 15, 2020
Added fumbles
July 14, 2020
All new contracts will be slightly higher for all players
Players received in trades will no longer have reduction in salary ("cap penalties paid by old team")
Manual trades with CPU are now more difficult in general
Cap penalties increased from 20% to 25% of player salary being traded away
Salary discount for longer contracts has been reduced
July 6, 2020
Updated playoffs to include three Round 1 games, with only the first seed getting a bye
Changed Oakland Vigilantes to Las Vegas Vigilantes (new leagues only)
July 5, 2020
Fixed a bug where CPU teams would never sign free agents that would upgrade their team
Fixed a bug during new league creation where rookie draft class would get created twice
Fixed a bug during new league creation where the rookie draft class players were getting converted to free agents before season 1
Rookie draft class is now created after the fantasy draft for new fantasy draft leagues
Fixed a bug where Coach Boost would not get updated after changing a player's position
Added Playoff Bracket to Dashboard and Schedule (weeks 17-20)
July 1, 2020
Fixed a bug where awards would sometimes be awarded twice
Cap penalties incurred after week 20 will now apply to the next season. This lines up the timeline with salary years being reduced
Added team logos to awards
Added sortable column for player awards
Fixed a bug where previously cut free agents could be signed on the individual player view
June 29, 2020
Traded players will now retain their existing contract length
Traded players will have their salary reduced by 20%, since the original team is paying for that 20% via cap penalties
Fixed a bug related to salaries getting increased too much over time
Fixed a bug where free agent salaries were incorrect before signing
Fixed a bug where games would sometimes simulate twice
June 28, 2020
Added multi-year contracts!
Added multi-year contracts (up to 4 years). Longer contracts offer smaller yearly salary cap cost
Free Agents and traded players will have a 1 year contract
Re-signing to longer contracts will happen in the offseason only
Added Salary Years Remaining to player table views
Salary Years gets reduced by 1 after the PFL Championship Game
All players with Salary Years = 0 at week 22 will need to be either re-signed or cut
Cap penalties will be applied to any traded or cut player
New leagues will have pseudo-random salary/contract years assigned to all players
Added a warning to Cut and Trade views warning about cap penalties
Added Awards icons to players in Re-Sign players view
Added Discord message when starting a new season
All players' Consistency is hidden until OVR is revealed (after playing in 3 games). This will make drafting more difficult.
Updated player OVR bars style - black outline, new question mark icon
Players with hidden OVR will have their OVR bar color faded
Fixed a bug related to incorrectly blocking manual trades after week 23
CPUs now value user team draft picks slightly less, and their own team's draft picks slightly more
CPUs now consider team rank in Standings when trading draft picks
Undrafted rookies are now converted to free agents with hidden OVRs (after week 27). This will make free agent talent more difficult to evaluate.
Fixed a bug in the offseason where free agents would accept offers from teams who previously cut them
Added clickable text for Salaries, which will pop up a modal with Salary Cap Penalties information
Fixed a bug where CPU teams would cut players on their depth chart before players with no depth chart rank
Added a warning to Edit Player form regarding impact to the league's Competitive label
Minor UI improvements to landing page, welcome screen, header, and footer
June 18, 2020
Trading is now only allowed during weeks 1-8 and in the offseason after Free Agent Signing (Week 26)
Updated Detroit Prowlers logo
Added Awards icons to players in Retired Players tables
Fixed Retired Players view
June 16, 2020
More Discord integration and automation!
Only "friendly" Discord Usernames are required - example: Aurabolt#2791
Automatic creation of League channels in Progression Football Discord server when users set their Discord usernames
Added clickable Discord icon link in left sidebar - opens Discord League channel
Note: Some users may have to re-add their Discord usernames to their Progression Football profiles after this update
Added basic Discord message automation messages to the channel - Week Advanced, Draft - On the Clock, Draft - Admin needs to start
Request a Discord Channel from @Aurabolt in the Discord server to get a League channel created for your league!
Users can update their own profile to add Discord User ID to get mentioned by the bot in their league channel
Week will advance automatically if the schedule is loaded when all user games have already been played - to move leagues along without so much admin clicking
June 6, 2020
Added player OVR bars to re-signing and rookie signing views
Fixed bug with team salary calculations during re-signing and rookie signing
Fixed bug with player salary calculations (Championship Winners were not demanding higher salaries as expected)
Fixed bug with sorting table by OVR on re-sign and rookie signing views
Changed week 27 "Advance Week" button to display "Advance Season"
Fixed a bug causing a crash when trying to create a new Fantasy Draft league
June 2, 2020
Add Season Stats to Player view
May 31, 2020
Code optimizations - hopefully makes everything a little faster
Fixed a play history display bug showing "and goal" at incorrect times
Fixed some bugs related to Yearly Awards logic
May 30, 2020
Added individual Championship Winner awards to all players on the winning team
Added Championship Winner and Yearly Awards winners to week 21 view, above retired players table. Week 21 renamed to "League News"
Add trophy icon next to names of players with awards (hover to view at a glance)
Sidebar color highlighting to match user team color
Team records display default to (0-0) instead of (-)
Added Coaches view with some boosts data
Slow down Consistency upgrades by 2.5x current rate (too many players with very good CON without much time/effort)
Players who have won a Championship have a higher chance to retire after winning the big game (that year only)
Players who have won a Championship or Yearly Award will demand a 20% higher salary for the remainder of their career
Reduced the range that players can progress or regress (maximum is now +7 / -7 per season)
April 26, 2020
Added Change Position feature
Changing a player's position will cause a one-time, permanent change to the player's OVR.
The change will be impacted by how different the player's current position is from the new position.
Added Yearly Awards to Season Summary (week 27)
League MVP
Rookie of the Year
Defensive Player of the Year
Added awards to individual Player views
Added QB Rating (QBR) to Game stats and Awards (QBR will be added to Player Stats and Team Stats screens soon)
Trades are now allowed to be executed even if teams are over the salary cap
More awards can be added in the future
Prevented exploit - user teams trading players with very high salaries to CPU teams, destroying the CPU team salary cap
April 7, 2020
Added Randomize Name button to Edit Player form
April 5, 2020
Added User Profiles
Currently user profiles are basic, but more info/stats/achievements will be added in future updates
Added optional Discord username field for each user
Database and code changes made to support user profiles and new Discord field
All usernames are now clickable to view that user's profile
Added Users, current user, All Users, and League Users sections to the sidebar
Added ability for users to change their own username and Discord
Moved Dashboard and Messages into League section of sidebar
Username lengths and league name lengths are now limited
Usernames must now be unique
March 25, 2020
Fixed a bug when hovering over Scouting
March 23, 2020
Added Draft Picks to Manual Trades
Database and code changes made to support future drafts, so picks can be traded
Updated Manual Trade UI to support draft picks
Scouting Upgrade cost for weeks 10+ reduced from 3000 to 2500 points
Remove unused "cost" column from Player History tables
Fixed a bug related to depth chart requriements for CPU teams when the Play Game was clicked
Fixed a bug preventing Admins from kicking a user from a public league (@fan)
February 28, 2020
Added team color styling to certain elements
Fixed a bug with Stop Sim button being disabled
Fixed a bug preventing horizontal scrolling on smaller screens
Application maintenance updates
February 24, 2020
Free Agents will now have their salaries reset to default calculated values after the FA Bidding is over.
This will be the only instance where a player's salary could be reduced during his career.
This is to fix free agents who no longer meet the market value for their previously high salary (usually after regressing and being cut), OR to
increase a player's salary if they progressed as a Free Agent.
All players under 50 raw OVR will automatically retire at the end of the season
Added Team Schedule to Dashboard
February 22, 2020
Made a minor change to manual trade logic to make player age slightly less of a factor
Fixed exploit: User teams were able to overpay for Free Agents during FA bidding, then Manual Trade all those players to CPU teams for huge gains, and destroy the CPU teams' salary cap.
Trade Block and Manual Trades are now restricted only to teams who are under the salary cap.
Added Team Needs button to all teams
Added Team Info banners to all roster and depth chart views
New Team Needs and Upgrades button icons
Fixed a bug when owning a team, old CPU trade block trades persisted
February 21, 2020
Added Manual Trades
Works with User Team to CPU Team, or User Team to User Team
User Team to CPU Team trade offers include CPU Interest gauge
Supports single or multiple players per trade offer
Can create multiple manual trade offers, but only edit one at a time, until offered
Currently players only, but adding draft picks to manual trades may be added in the future!
Fixed multiple bugs causing player salaries to be too high
One issue was related to initial rookie salary calculation (based on scouted OVR), but players don't take pay cuts - resulted in inflated salaries across the league over time
Fixed a bug with very high salaries being offered during Free Agent Bidding
CPUs will now bid on Free Agents based on each team's perceived value of the player, not based on the salary the player is requesting
For existing leagues: team salaries should become less inflated over time
For new leagues: team salaries should stay more reasonable, like in season 1 week 1
Added "Stop Sim" button, but only when advancing more than 1 week at a time
Fixed a bug with rookies getting their OVR revealed too early (before playing 3 games)
Fixed a bug with players sometimes gaining double XP from games (used to automatically improve CON)
New leagues will apply draft boost to all rookies on teams
Allow editing draft boost when manually editing players as Admin
February 11, 2020
Drafted players now receive 20% salary reduction instead of 50%
Default Progression Chance slightly reduced
Optimized Advance Season tasks
February 9, 2020
Major Bug Fix: Uncontrollable Advance Weeks
Thanks to user feedback! Identified a major bug that was sometimes updating teams Sim Until values in other leagues
ALL league teams have been fixed with a one-time reset for Sim Until values (set to the current week)
New Feature: Teams Ready
Added Teams Ready information and button near Advance Week button
Bug fixed: CPU teams sometimes doing strange things when trying to get under the salary cap
Re-wrote a large piece of CPU roster management logic
This task was extremely complicated and took longer than I expected
Needed to account for all the salary/roster situations a CPU might get into (roster requirements, salary cap, cutting players intelligently and not randomly)
Should result in more stability and consistency regarding how long CPUs take to resolve salary cap issues
Bug fixed: Start Draft button is now present and works again
Bug fixed: Sometimes it was possible that CPU-controlled teams drafted multiple times per round
Added a check and error message for user teams who are over the salary cap, who do not have Sim Roster on
January 31, 2020
New Feature: Draft Boosts
Any player who is on the same team that drafted him now receives a +2 OVR Draft Boost for the duration of their tenure with that team
Any player who is on the same team that drafted him now receives a 50% reduction in salary for the duration of their tenure with that team
All existing players in all leagues have been updated to apply Draft Boost and salary reduction where appropriate
If a player with Draft Boost is cut or traded, his Draft Boost will disappear forever, and his salary will return to normal value
Draft Impact has been added as an option to new League creation (options are 0 to +5)
This is to encourage teams to invest in Scouting, raise the value of draft picks, help control the Salary Cap, and consider the Draft a serious factor to their team's long-term future
For multiplayer leagues: League Admins can now Advance Week if there are no other pending actions from user teams (like Depth Chart requirements, Draft Actions, etc).
Optimized League Creation and Advance Season tasks to make them faster
Added User Teams column to Leagues tables, to more easily see multiplayer leagues
Add Depth Chart Rank column to roster views
Added Culture indicators to Free Agent Bidding screen
Removed "Actions" text from players table dropdowns
Automatically filtering Free Agents by position of most need by default (this is to increase speed when clicking on Free Agents link)
Updated League History screen and added more stats
January 26, 2020
Fixed some bugs causing errors when viewing the schedule of a league the user is not a member of
Added Competitive column to leagues tables to identify leagues where players have been manually edited by League Admins (this count ignores player name changes)
January 25, 2020
Changed how Development (DEV) affects Progression Chance (PC) and made Progression Chance attribute now visible to users.
The results of buying DEV upgrades can now be seen via the DEV and PC values increasing on each player
DEV upgrades now give diminishing returns over the course of a season, based on each player's DEV value when an upgrade is purchased
PC no longer gets reduced from playing in games, but still resets to 0 at the beginning of each season
PC shows the overall chance for positive progression, but values for the degree of progression, chance for regression, and chance of staying the same are still hidden
DEV upgrades now become more expensive later in the season
Added PC to Progressed and Regressed log entries in Players History
Upgraded Dashboard
Automatically redirecting users to Dashbaord after simulating games
Added Previous Game with result, and Next Game
Rookies will now demand the salary of the OVR they were scouted at
Added "Raise" column to Re-Sign players to show how much the salary is changing
Players will no longer take pay cuts in their career. This makes free agent bidding more risky, and Salary Cap more relevant to team management
CPU teams will now sometimes add starters to the Trade Block
Bug fixes
Fixed bug - rookies with hidden OVR could have their OVR approximated based on the salary demanded at signing. Rookies will now demand the salary of the OVR they were scouted at
Fixed bug - Rookie OVRs could be approximated revealed by looking at the pregame ratings chart
Fixed notification messages in bottom left that sometimes stacked on top of each other
Fixed links when clicking on Storylines
Fixed a bug with salary values (requested and accepted) when viewing previous seasons Free Agent Summary
Fixed a bug where a player's salary would get reset back to a default (lower) value after being signed during Free Agent bidding the previous season
January 18, 2020
Added ability to browse all other leagues
Added ability to sort Leagues tables
Fixed another bug that could reveal the hidden OVR of a just-drafted rookie (ubwr)
Fixed a sorting bug for Leagues tables
Added a note explaining that Coach Boosts max out at +5 per position
January 17, 2020
Trade Block: When putting a player on the trade block, more offers are shown
Trade Block: Improved trade logic involving CPU teams (offers to human players, and CPU-CPU trades)
Trade Block: Disallowing putting players with hidden OVR from going on the trade block
Fix error message about depth chart requirements (ubwr)
Fix to All-Time Player Stats view to show a player's name italicized if he is retired (ubwr)
Fix to Player Stats view - default to All Weeks when viewing Season stats (ubwr)
Fix to Player Stats view - clicking a team name now brings you to their roster
Fix to Stats view: Sort defensive stats by tackles by default
Coach Boosts: Updated costs, most notably significantly decreasing the cost for offensive linemen positions
Fix Message for scouting upgrades arriving a week late (ubwr)
Fix bug: Team Points were not being awarded for playoff games (ubwr)
Fix bug: Prevent accidentally viewing weeks in the future (ubwr)
Fix bug: actual OVR accidentally being shown during draft, instead of scouted OVR (ubwr)
Fix bug: CPU teams not re-ordering their depth charts after rookie OVR are revealed (ubwr)
Fix bug: Players signed in Free Agency would incorrectly take pay cuts (default contract value) next time they were signed or re-signed (ubwr)
Show "contract negotiations complete" after Re-Signing and Rookie Signings
January 12, 2020
Fixed a bug with scouting upgrade messages sometimes being delivered a week late (ubwr)
Limit 2 leagues per user (may change after BETA)
Automatically deleting leagues not played in 20 days (may change after BETA)
January 11, 2020
To optimize the database, speed up Stats pages, and and reduce storage space: moved all-time player stats to a new database table, automatically deleting game stats/plays older than last season
Automatically deleting Messages and Storylines older than last season
January 10, 2020
Made game summary alert notifications clickable (w3stw00d)
Moved alert notifications to the bottom left instead of across the top (achum5)
Fixed a bug with Trade Block offers not getting displayed for user managed teams (youngkingabdul)
Fixed a bug with Advanced Playbook not submitting data correctly (ubwr)