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, OVR_RNG_MIN, OVR_RNG_MAX, 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 23)
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)