How to Play

1. Choose a Player slot

   You have two character slots. Each can hold an athlete or a General Manager; you can have both roles on one account.

2. Pick your position and archetype

   Your position sets your job on the field. Your archetype helps its suited attributes train faster—it doesn’t give them a higher starting rating.

3. Build your starting attributes

   Every attribute starts at 20. Spend 150 points; raising an already-high rating costs more. Ratings cap at 100. Attributes shows which ones your position uses and what each does.

Train an attribute directly, or play a skill drill for a performance-based gain. Each individual drill can be attempted once per day; starting it uses the attempt.

What affects your gains?

Your archetype’s key attributes, your build, your career year, your team’s facilities, your team’s scheme, a trainer and Training Packs all change how much a session gives. Equipment doesn’t: it boosts ratings in games. The Training page lists your own values under “What speeds up training” and shows the next gain before you train. Higher ratings improve more slowly.

Recover overnight

Your Recovery rating drives nightly Energy recovery. A medical facility or recovery trainer can improve it. Energy drinks are used from your Locker Room.

You begin as a free agent. You can’t sign yourself to a team, but you can let a GM know you’re interested.

1. Find a team in League

   Open its page and choose Express Interest. This flags your interest to the GM; it isn’t a contract offer.

2. Check Pending Offers in Career

   A GM’s offer appears there and in your notifications. Review the salary, contract length and signing bonus.

3. Accept, decline or counter

   A counteroffer goes back to the GM for a decision. Until an agreement is signed, you remain a free agent.

Practice games

No team or contract required. Open Practice Games, then create a game or claim a slot in the current lobby. Choose 5v5 or 11v11 when creating one; empty slots are filled automatically at kickoff.

Practice starts you at full Energy and leaves your career Energy unchanged.

League games

Fixtures are scheduled, and your team plays them whether you’re online or not: it fields you from its depth chart. Open the live game (Watch on the schedule, or Enter game on Home) and you control your own athlete.

League games use your real Energy, online or not. It wears down while you’re on the field, so show up rested.

1. Select a player you control

   Use the player on the field or their player chip. The selection shows the actions available in that situation.

2. Choose an action and aim

   Move, pass, hand off, catch, tackle or block, depending on the player and the play. Contact actions can appear when your movement aim meets another player.

3. Lock your order

   Check the preview before confirming. A dotted route is an automatic plan; a solid route shows a locked order.

AI handles players without human orders. GMs and other eligible sideline roles can direct teammates within their permissions, but can’t override a player currently controlled by their online owner.

New athletes start with $50,000. Your Bank keeps salary, sponsorships and transaction history together.

Salary and sponsors are different

Contract salary arrives on Mondays during the season. In Bank → Brand Deals, choose one sponsor for a 7-day term. Cash, supplies or equipment arrive at signing—not as a weekly repeat payment. Deals don’t renew automatically.

Buy benefits for the time you need

Equipment and trainers offer 1 week, 4 weeks or Season. Season currently means 8 weeks from purchase, not the league’s championship date.

Choose your equipment bonuses in the Locker Room. You can have one active trainer at a time. Drinks and training boosts are stored there until you use them.

Each position has its own attributes: together they make up its overall, and they do the work in its job on the field. Your archetype’s key attributes train faster.

Attributes by position

What each attribute does

Physical & Athleticism

• Speed: Top sprint speed at full stride — how fast you separate in the open field or close on a ball carrier. Heavier players hit a lower ceiling.
• Acceleration: How quickly you reach top speed — matters most on short bursts, cuts, and getting going again after contact; less on long sprints.
• Agility: How much of your speed survives a sideways or backward cut instead of running straight. It also sharpens your footwork and balance in tackling, blocking, and shedding blocks, and keeps your cuts sharper on a wet field. On a fumble it helps you dive on the ball or scoop it up cleanly, and gets you back up sooner after you go down.
• Strength: Your single biggest factor in breaking a tackle, and the second-biggest in every block rep on either side of the line. It is also a share of winning a contested catch, the biggest rating when several players reach a fumble together, and holds your speed running into a strong wind.
• Jumping: With your height, how high you can reach — it keeps adding reach all the way up. It decides whether you can play a high ball at all, wins jump balls against a shorter reach, and sets your reach when blocking a field goal or extra point.
• Stamina: How fast your Energy drains in a game, and so how much of it a game costs you. It does not change how you play at a given Energy level — that follows the bar.
• Recovery: How much Energy you get back each night; a better medical facility and a recovery trainer add to it. A league game starts you at your Energy and your bar cannot climb above it, so low Recovery means playing tired. In a game it also decides how fast you get your breath back — between plays and on the bench a little, at breaks and halftime a lot — and how much the heat slows that.

Passing & Kicking

• Throw Accuracy: How close your throws land to where you aim, before distance, pressure and movement widen the miss. A high rating also loses less to a wet, cold or windy ball.
• Throw Power: Ball velocity, which sets your maximum realistic range on every pass type. Fatigue cuts into it.
• Kick Power: How far you can kick on field goals, punts and kickoffs, and on punts and kickoffs how well the ball holds its line in the wind.
• Kick Accuracy: How close every kick goes to where you aimed: sideways error on field goals and extra points, distance error on punts. Fatigue and clutch moments eat into it.

Receiving & Rushing

• Catching: Your hands on a ball nobody is contesting — the main catch rating, above all at a sprint — plus fielding kicks and holding on in rain and snow, and scooping up a fumble. On a contested ball it shares the job with Catch in Traffic.
• Catch in Traffic: Wins the ball when a defender reaches it at the same moment, and cuts extra drops with a defender close by. No effect on a clean ball or in bad weather.
• Spectacular Catch: Only used when you choose a spectacular catch: a longer reach and dive, how much of your leap the attempt uses, and your hands on that riskier attempt. Your height and Jumping set how high you can go.
• Route Running: Receivers and backs without the ball: more speed off the ball, more speed kept out of breaks and while tracking a deep ball over your shoulder, and fewer drops on a catch at full speed.
• Carrying / Ball Security: Lets you run closer to your real top speed while carrying the ball, protects it from coming loose on a big hit or a wet snap or handoff (in rain, snow and cold most of all), helps you stay upright through contact, and lets you carry longer before tiring. It also helps you keep a fumble you dive on or scoop up.
• Elusiveness: An always-on edge in breaking tackles, behind only Strength for a ball carrier. It applies whether you cut or run straight.

Mental

• Awareness: How fast you react to a thrown ball and how well you track one over your shoulder, and a share of tackling, breaking tackles and winning contested catches. For a passer, it is getting the ball out before a rusher arrives. It also sets how fast you react to a fumble and helps you hold on to it. Fog and heavy rain slow your reactions less.
• Vision: For a passer, reading the field to pick the right arc, a little accuracy, and seeing your target through fog. For anyone going for a catch — receivers, backs, defenders going for a pick — how well you track where the ball will come down. For a kicker, playing the wind.
• Composure: Blunts the accuracy a passer loses to a rush and to fatigue, steadies a kicker on clutch and iced kicks, keeps a tired blocker in their reps, and keeps a center's snap clean in rain and snow.
• Discipline: Only affects penalties: holding when you block, illegal hands when you shed, pass interference in contested catches, roughing the passer and personal fouls on hard tackles. It changes no play outcome.

Blocking & Trench Power

• Pass Blocking: The main rating in every pass-protection rep you take. For linemen, tight ends and fullbacks it also screens rushers off the passer.
• Run Blocking: The main rating in every run-blocking rep. Win it and the defender you block is stopped for that turn.

Defense & Coverage

• Tackling: Your largest factor in bringing down a ball carrier, and it adds force to hard hits that can jar the ball loose.
• Block Shedding: The primary factor in defeating a block and getting to the passer or carrier. Lose the rep and you are badly out of position on any ball thrown near you.
• Man Coverage: Speed off the ball and recovery out of a receiver’s cut, plus a small bonus on every tackle — in full when you play man. The better of your two coverage ratings also keeps your speed turning to run under a deep ball. It does not decide the catch contest.
• Zone Coverage: How well you contest a catch and how often you turn it into a breakup or pick, plus a quicker reaction to the throw when you play zone.

1. Create a General Manager

   Choose General Manager instead of Player in an empty character slot. A GM doesn’t have player ratings or daily training sessions.

2. Choose a bot-run franchise

   On your GM’s Profile, Available franchises lists every team: AI Managed ones can be claimed, and Managed by a name means another GM has it. View team shows the team first. Claiming is the only way to take one, and it’s yours at once.

3. Review your new team

   Start with the roster, contracts and available finances. Then build your depth chart and Game Plan.

Free Agents is your recruitment board. You initiate a contract offer; an athlete’s interest in your team is a useful signal, not an offer you’ve already received.

1. Choose an unsigned athlete

   Check their position, ratings and asking range. Interested athletes are marked on your board.

2. Set the offer terms

   Choose salary, contract length and signing bonus within the form’s limits. Check both cap room and treasury funds.

3. Review the response

   Human players can accept, decline or counter. Bot-owned athletes decide immediately. Review any counter before agreeing.

Signing bonuses

Paid upfront from your team treasury. They count toward guaranteed money, while their cap charge is spread across the contract. The offer form shows the permitted bonus.

Releasing a player

Releasing a player pays their guaranteed money from the treasury at once. It stays on the books as dead money, and because contract years don’t count down yet, a release costs the full guarantee. Check the cost in the release dialog before confirming; cash and cap space aren’t the same thing.

Set the depth chart

One list per position, special teams included. The players at the top start league games; until you save a chart, starters are picked by overall. Auto-Sort puts every list in overall order; nothing changes until you save.

Build a Game Plan

For each situation, choose up to three offense and three defense plays. In a league game, when nobody on your sideline calls a play, the game uses your plan.

Invest off the field

Appoint your offense, defense and special-teams captains in Team, Staff Room. Facilities are under Team, Finance, Facilities: medical support improves overnight Energy recovery, procurement lowers Store prices for your athletes, and scouting shows more of your next opponent.

Game settlement and merchandise contribute to team revenue. Keep the team’s treasury separate from your athletes’ personal Bank balances.

In your team’s league games you make the team’s calls from the sideline, without taking an athlete’s field slot.

• The huddle: break it, choose the huddle type and tempo, and snap.
• The calls: the offense’s and the defense’s plays; extra point or two-point try; punt, field goal or go for it on fourth down; timeouts; accepting or declining penalties. When nobody calls a play, your saved Game Plan does.
• Substitutions and the team’s auto-sub strategy, and the drawing tools.
• Directing players: any bot, any player whose owner is offline, and any player left idle for three of their own turns (a dashed grey ring). An owner’s own next order takes their player back. You can’t direct a player their owner is playing.

Your captains share some of this in league games. The Offense captain can snap, set the tempo, call the offense’s plays and timeouts, and make the kick and fourth-down calls; the Defense captain calls the defense’s plays and timeouts. Each captain decides penalties when their unit was on the field (the special-teams captain on kicking plays) and directs their unit’s bots and unattended players. Appoint captains in Team, Staff Room.

If nobody from your staff is in the game, the huddle breaks and the ball is snapped on the clock, penalties resolve on their own, the game makes the fourth-down call, and no timeouts are taken.