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.