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← Back to newsTeams get real faces on the site. Photos show up in matchups, standings, and Discord share cards, and bigger leagues can share home parks. TEAM PHOTOS • Managers and commissioners can upload a season team photo from the team page (settings). It is separate from your profile picture, and rollover does not copy it into the next season. • Crop before you save: drag and zoom so the logo sits where you want it. Profile pictures use the same cropper now. • Team photos show up across season hub, schedule, scoreboard, playoff series, standings, and game report heroes. • Discord / paste previews for games, series, and team pages can show the logos too. STADIUM POOL • Leagues bigger than six teams can put multiple copies of the same park in the stadium pool. Duplicate home fields are allowed (up to 16 copies per park). • “Fill to team count” adds copies until every team has a home stadium available. • Stadium draft and manual assignment respect remaining copies, not just “on or off.” BROWSER AUTO-UPLOAD HELP • On Windows and macOS, Chrome blocks the default Rio folder under AppData / Library, so background watch cannot see games there. • Account upload now explains Project Rio portable mode (portable.txt beside the program, or a custom user path) so StatFiles live somewhere the browser can grant. Linux is usually fine already. • One-shot folder sync and lifetime StatFiles upload are still there if you do not want to move Rio’s folder. ALSO THIS BUILD • “Inky covers this league” sits on the season news desk for subscribed commissioners. • Matchup presentation got a pass so logos and scores read cleaner on game and series pages. STILL ROUGH / NEXT • Community guidelines and in-app reporting for public photos are next, not a beta gate. Keep uploads league-friendly for now. • Out-of-beta testing is still tournament, salary draft, waivers, and trades. • Browser watch is better documented, but portable setup is still a real step. Send feedback if it fights you. Thanks for the patience while logos and parks caught up to the rest of the league tools.
INKY • Subscribe at /inky for $7 a month per commissioner. Stripe checkout, renew, and cancel from your account. • Donations on Support do not unlock Inky. Those are separate on purpose. • Once subscribed, turn on “Inky covers this league” from the season news desk or Newsroom settings. Subscribe prompts show up where you hit the paywall. • Flavor settings: humor, article length, and whether storylines carry between articles. • Coverage includes game recaps (stats upload, score-only, or forfeit), series and playoff pieces, season preview / wrap, and trade reports. • Writing indicator while a draft is in progress, plus more varied openings. • Auto-draft has an hourly cap per league so a backlog catch-up cannot explode into a huge bill. Manual generate stays uncapped. • Nicknames Inky coins can be viewed, set, or retired in Newsroom settings. • Give Inky feedback on articles: thumbs up/down, tags (wrong facts, repetitive, too jokey, too dry, length, off voice), and an optional comment. Please use it when something is off. • Lineup editing is manager-only on the team page. • Lifetime StatFiles folder upload (with batching) is still there for catch-up. Report what breaks on the new watch path. DRAFT, WAIVERS, AND ROLLOVER • Smarter mock draft at /mock-draft (CPU seats, ratings/chemistry picks, friend seats). Still run a full practice before you trust it. • Waiver wire season settings and claim board are in. A real mid-season claim cycle still has to be tested. • Rollover can copy last season pool and rosters. Rollover has been confirmed working in a real season. • Cleared game results no longer leave a schedule slot unusable. • Earlier this stretch: draft room open/close and check-in, synced lottery reveal, auction polish (clock, undo, uncontested picks), stadium phase after player drafts, and unified live boards across formats. ALSO SHIPPED THIS STRETCH • Friendly / personal game pages open from public profiles and show league-style fielding detail. • Username lookup is case-insensitive for grants, members, managers, and profile URLs (login stays case-exact on purpose). • Newsroom editor no longer traps you after a failed save. • Discord share images / richer paste previews on more pages. • Tournament / best-of modes, computer games for leagues, team lineup builder, and chemistry chart fix from earlier notes are still in. STILL ROUGH / NEXT • Live draft rooms, salary draft, mock draft smoke, and waiver mid-season claims still need real testing before out of beta. • Inky subscription is live but early. Use article feedback when facts or voice are wrong. • Browser auto-upload is new. Keep Send feedback handy. Thanks for playing through a big build. Inky feedback and draft/waiver bug reports help the most right now.
Here is where Dugout Superstars is headed. Core league tools stay free. The deeper extras (especially Inky) sit in the subscriber lane when that ships. RIGHT NOW • Out-of-beta gate: keep stress-testing live drafting and the new formats (linear, random, auction, salary draft, plus draft-when-you-play). Auction got a big polish pass (clock, undo, uncontested picks, stadium phase). Real rooms still decide if we are done. • Season rollover and tournament mode are in and looking good. Still tell us if something breaks. • Auto-upload (Dugout Link) stays admin-only until we graduate it. Lifetime folder upload of Rio StatFiles is the everyday path for catching up career stats. RECENTLY LANDED • Auction draft polish: snake nominations, linear bids, turn clock, commissioner undo/cancel, uncontested Pick character, sturdier board after bids. • Unified live draft UX across snake, auction, salary, stadium, and mock; safer concurrent picks. • Stadium draft phase can follow any player draft format when stadiums are set to draft. • Draft room open / close, manager check-in, season-hub draft banner, synced lottery reveal, and lobby sync polish. • Auction draft lot tracking hardened. • Lifetime StatFiles folder upload with automatic batching for large folders. • Quit-game confirms and crash-file blocks for league attribution. • Discord share images for games, careers, and series, plus richer paste previews on league, season, team, standings, and news pages. • Standings Manager column. • Season rollover, season modes (standard / tournament), best-of series. • More draft formats and draft order options, plus a mock draft page. • Forfeit display fixes and clearer scoreboard W/L tint. • Manager career polish and earlier Discord link previews. • Cleaner commissioner home, setup resume, live stream links on games. • Modern site theme, Explore nav, dashboard refresh, score ticker, profile pictures. • Team page lineup builder, game-page fielding detail, chemistry chart fix, easier stat sorting. • Computer / offline games for leagues (never in human lifetime stats). NEXT BIG BUILDS (in order) 1. Harden drafting → out of beta Finish real draft-night testing on the new room tools and formats. Fix what breaks. When that is solid, we call the core product out of beta. 2. Auto-upload for everyone Dugout Link watches your Rio stats folder (admin testing only today). Folder upload already helps lifetime catch-up. Next we want simple auto-upload setup for managers, and later a smoother Project Rio import path if that opens up. 3. Discord polish Share cards and paste previews got much better. Webhook polish is next: easy test posts, clearer setup, more reliable game reports and big moments in your server. 4. Inky as the real subscription When a commissioner is subscribed, Inky can write for that league. We want tone settings, memory across whole league history, and articles for the big beats: draft preview and recap, trades, playoff preview, series recaps, and a season wrap. Inky can already draft in leagues that turn it on; the paid gate and deeper memory are still ahead. 5. Deeper team and analytics extras Richer chemistry lab toys, lineup / outfield recommenders, and the Events parser that unlocks better swing / advanced stats later. STRETCH IDEAS WE LIKE Caster / live hub views, weekly pick'em, public standings embeds, Discord slash commands, awards ceremony pages, and hype-moment timestamps when a VOD is attached. These are wants, not promises with dates, and they are not required for out of beta. WHAT WE WILL NOT DO We will not lock basic league features behind a paywall. Schedules, drafts, uploads, standings, and playoffs stay available to everyone.
Huge commissioner and season update. This is the batch about to hit main. Please break it on purpose and tell us what fails. SEASON ROLLOVER • After a champion is crowned, commissioners can start next-season setup from the season page. • Copies teams, managers, and settings into a fresh season with empty rosters, then drops you on the teams step to edit who is returning. • Season names must stay unique inside the league. • This looks solid in our passes. Still poke it on a real finished season and report anything weird. SEASON MODES AND SCHEDULES • Standard seasons and tournament-style seasons. • Best-of series support for regular season and playoff / tournament rounds. • Computer leagues / computer games for leagues that want them. Those games stay out of human lifetime stats. • Clearer champion banner and standings / playoff views when a season wraps. DRAFTING (TEST THIS) • More draft formats: snake, linear, random, auction, and salary draft. • Draft order options including random and manual ordering. • Live draft boards for the formats that use them (including auction). • Roster policy choice: classic season draft, or draft-when-you-play (no season draft board; characters come from uploaded games). • Mock draft page for practice. • Honest note: live drafting and the new draft types still need real room testing. Snake may feel familiar; treat the new formats as fresh and send bug reports. COMMISSIONER HOME AND SETUP • Cleaner commissioner home with less clutter. • Setup resume prompts so you can pick up league / season setup where you left off. • Richer Discord posts around finals and big moments (phase 1 webhooks still need a later polish pass). WATCHING GAMES • Live stream links on game pages when a Twitch or YouTube URL is set. STILL ROUGH / NEXT • Live draft + new draft formats: please stress-test before draft night matters. • Auto-upload (Dugout Link) is still not open for everyone (admin testing only for now). Manual paste and lifetime batch upload remain the everyday path. • Discord webhook polish (easy test posts, clearer setup) is next now that rollover is in. • Inky subscription depth (paid gate, longer memory, more article beats) is still ahead. Thanks for playing through a big build. Draft bugs and rollover surprises are especially useful right now.
Big batch of site work. Here is what managers should actually notice. LOOK AND FEEL • Fresh modern theme across the site (light and dark), with a clearer blue accent instead of the old stadium chrome. • Characters, H2H, Tier list, and Users are grouped under Explore in the nav so the top bar is less crowded. • News and About put recent patch notes above the roadmap, plus a full newest-first archive at /news/patch-notes. DASHBOARD AND LEAGUES • Dashboard got a modern pass: clearer My leagues, a Create tab, and easier follow / unfollow for leagues you care about. • Joining a league can auto-follow it (you can still unfollow). • Followed-league score ticker so recent scores from leagues you follow are easier to scan. • Team pages show a clearer season summary. TEAM AND GAME TOOLS • Lineup builder on My Team: set batting order and fielding, then save it. • Game pages show more detail, including fielding outs and fielding lineups. • Line-score momentum sparkline is back under the innings. • Chemistry chart values are fixed. Tell us if a pairing still looks wrong. • Stat tables are easier to sort (batting, pitching, and fielding library views). UPLOADS • Computer / offline Rio games can be saved and attributed to league slots. They never enter human lifetime stats. • Manual paste and lifetime batch upload remain the supported ways to get games in. • Auto-upload (Dugout Link) is still in testing and not open for general use. STILL ROUGH / NEXT • See the newer patch notes for season rollover, season modes, and draft formats. • Auto-upload stays closed to general use until the test pass holds up. Thanks for the bug reports. Keep poking the new UI and team tools and tell us what feels off.
Dugout Link (auto-upload from your Project Rio stats folder) is still in admin-only testing. It is not available for general use yet. WHAT WE ARE AIMING FOR • A small helper that watches your Rio stats folder and uploads finished games • Netplay games toward lifetime stats • League-looking matches held for a quick confirm • Computer / offline games reviewable for leagues without entering lifetime stats UNTIL IT OPENS UP • Use manual paste upload or lifetime batch upload as usual • We will post again when auto-upload is ready for everyone If you are helping with the admin test pass, tell us what broke. Everyone else can ignore the Auto-upload tab for now.
A catch-up post for everyone who has been playing while we kept building. This is the friendly backlog of recent work, not every commit. LATEST • Season rollover after a champion, season modes (standard / tournament), and best-of series. • New draft formats (linear, random, auction, salary) plus draft-when-you-play. Live draft still needs room testing. • Cleaner commissioner home, setup resume, mock draft, live stream links on games. • Chemistry chart values are fixed. • Stat tables are easier to sort (including character library batting, pitching, and fielding views). • Team page tools: build and save batting order and fielding on My Team. • Game pages show more detail: fielding outs and fielding lineups, plus the line-score momentum sparkline. • Computer / offline Rio games can be saved and attributed to league slots. They never enter human lifetime stats. HOME BASE • A real dashboard after login, including a hub when you are not in a league yet. • News, About, and this patch board so updates are not buried in Discord only. • Account pages that separate lifetime stats from upload history more clearly. • Optional Rio username on signup and account, with a gentle nudge if it is missing. LEAGUES AND SEASONS • Stronger season admin controls, including pinned season status when you need it. • Schedule backfill improvements for catching up old games (including partial matches and manual override). • Safer league delete and commissioner management. • Claim-a-team flow for reserved usernames. • Members-only award voting and end-of-season awards pages. • Playoff series polish so only real game slots ask for action. • Private league visibility with a commissioner toggle. • Commissioners can attribute recent / incoming uploads (including computer games) to schedule slots. STATS AND UPLOADS • Line scores built from the game file, with a momentum sparkline under the innings. • Fixes when home and away look swapped in the raw file. • Superstars on / off split on character stats (those modes play very differently). • Hammer Bro name matching fix for Rio files (Bro(H) in the game file). • Better lifetime batch uploads for large batches. Offline / CPU files save as computer games instead of polluting career lines. • Manual paste upload and lifetime batch upload remain the supported ways to get games in. SOCIAL AND ALERTS • Friends, follows, and a notification bell with broader coverage. • Per-league Discord webhooks with toggles for games, trades, forfeits, scores, and Inky articles. Phase 1 is live; smoother setup and test posts come after season rollover. • YouTube embeds with a commissioner privacy toggle (public vs members only). • Friend activity on the dashboard. DRAFT, COMPARE, AND FUN EXTRAS • Live snake draft with pick clock and related draft tooling. • Character compare expanded up to six players. • Tier list ballots visible on user profiles. • Inky game and series drafts where a league has Inky turned on (commissioner still publishes). KNOWN ROUGH EDGES • Live drafting and the new draft formats still need real room testing before you trust them for a whole season. • Auto-upload (Dugout Link) is admin-only testing, not general use. Use manual paste or lifetime batch upload for now. • Discord webhooks work, but we have not finished the polish pass yet. Thanks for playing and for the bug reports. Keep them coming.
A top player flagged that some chemistry numbers looked wrong on the site. That chart is fixed now. If you still see a captain or pairing that looks off compared to the game, say so in Discord or send feedback with the characters involved. Named examples help us double-check quickly. Team lineups use this corrected table.