Patch notes
What we have shipped lately
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.