The 52 League

The goal isn't to be the best football fan or the best racing fan. It's to be the best all-around sports fan — the one who knows when to start a NASCAR driver at Bristol, flex an EPL striker on a midweek Champions League night, and grab a tennis player for a major.

Why the rules: they force you to actually play multiple sports. That's the whole point of the league — breadth over depth.

For multi-game sports (NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, College Basketball) and multi-match soccer, only the player's single best game or match of the week counts. Hunt ceiling, not volume.

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The season runs November through October — all 52 weeks, no offseason. Each week (Mon–Sun), the highest total lineup score takes the week. Four seasonal quarters, each a 10-week regular season capped by a 2-week playoff, then a 4-week Grand Championship every October. The calendar is timed so the Grand Championship final lands on the sport's biggest fall weekend — World Series, NASCAR's Finale, and the Breeders' Cup at once — so the start floats by a week or so year to year.

2026 transition: the new calendar takes effect mid-year, so only Summer and Fall crown Quarter Champions this season. The October 2026 Grand Championship fills its Title bracket with the two next-best teams by weekly wins. Normal four-champion seeding starts in 2027.

Keepers

Keep 5 players into next season; the other 10 spots return to the draft. Each keeper costs a draft pick — and the cost climbs the longer you hold.

Cost rises +2 rounds per consecutive year held, capped at Round 1. No sport limit on keepers (weekly lineup rules still cap at 2). Tier 3 players can't be kept. Keeper cost travels with the player through a trade or supplemental-draft poach; a true free-agent claim resets to Round 12. Picks due 48 hours after the October Grand Championship, before the November draft.

Tips for New Owners

• Build 146 · June 25 — Custom team names, AI team hand-off, and injury polish. Give your team a custom name (Settings → Edit Profile) — it shows on the standings, and a long-press reveals who manages it. Commissioners can now assign an AI team to a real owner taking over an open seat — the bot's roster and lineup move across. Injury badges are now purple (so they don't look like the red "live" tag) and show right on the Dashboard roster grid, not just a player's page. And an AI owner added mid-season now drafts itself a full roster automatically within a few minutes.
• Build 144 · June 23 — Two lineup-lock fixes. Your lineup for the new week now opens early Monday morning instead of staying stuck on last week's finished games. And adding a free agent from a sport you didn't already have now correctly locks them if their game has already started — so you can't slot in someone whose game is already underway. Also quieted a background error from a sport feed that's no longer used.
• Builds 142–143 · June 22 — AI owners. Don't have a full league? Fill the empty seats with computer-run owners, or play a solo league against up to seven of them. Each AI gets its own drafting personality and sets its own lineup every week. See AI Owners under Add · Drop · Trade · Keep.
• Build 141 · June 22 — Injury reports. Hurt players now show an availability badge across the app — pulled automatically from the official injury report a few times a day (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, WNBA, and college football; college basketball in season). The headline is a Dashboard "swap before lock" card: if one of your starters is Out, Doubtful, Questionable, or Day-to-Day and their game hasn't started yet, you're warned in time to bench them so you don't post a zero. Once their game starts they're locked, so the card leaves them out. You'll also see a small badge on free agents and the Draft Board so you don't pick up someone who's out.
• Build 140 · June 21 — BIG3 players now lock when their game starts, like every other sport — so you can't swap a BIG3 starter after seeing how they did.
• Build 139 · June 20 — A Dashboard nudge when your starters can't score this week (their season is off) so a stale lineup doesn't quietly post zeros. Commissioner tools now work — regenerate the invite code and edit league settings actually save. Invite codes are now letters-only, easier to share without mix-ups.
• Build 138 · June 20 — Dropping a player you got in a trade now works. Before, trying to drop a player you'd acquired in a trade silently did nothing; now it drops correctly, and you'll see a clear message if a drop ever can't go through.
• Build 137 · June 20 — The Draft Board now shows a short note ("Preseason rankings aren't available yet for that sport…") when a sport has no preseason source yet — like college football before the fall — instead of a list of unranked players. Every sport stays selectable.
• Build 136 · June 18 — The Dashboard's Events This Week card now lists only events that haven't started yet — a tournament already underway drops off, since those players are locked and no longer a pickup.
• Build 135 · June 18 — New Draft Board screen ranks players by preseason value for scouting players who have no stats yet (kept separate from current-scoring Top Players), an Events This Week dashboard card nudges pickups for event sports, and the ⓘ color key now appears on the Your Roster card too. The waiver wire is gone — with zero claims all season, pickups are now simple first-come free agency. Added an Autodraft help page.
• Build 134 · June 18 — All Players search on the Players tab, and an ⓘ color key on the Dashboard explaining the chip colors. Playoffs and the draft now work at any league size, not just 8 owners. Behind the scenes: a missed draft pick now autodrafts the best available (your queue first, otherwise by recent form + upcoming-season fit), and players who haven't started their season get a preseason value for scouting.
• Build 133 · June 17 — Out-of-season players (like tennis players between majors) no longer get stuck locked — bench or drop them freely; they lock again once their sport's scoring window is on.
• Builds 130–132 · June 16 — Player chips now show season status at a glance: out-of-season players (who can't score) are flagged, event sports like F1, NASCAR and UFC show active for the whole week they have an event, and a yellow chip marks an in-season sport that's idle this week. NBA and NHL drop off "in season" after mid-June.
• Build 129 · June 16 — Tap the "who's leading" line on the Dashboard to jump straight to Standings.
• Build 127 · June 16 — Pending trades now appear on the Dashboard with Accept / Decline (and Approve / Veto for the commissioner) right there — no more digging under Players.
• Builds 124–128 · June 15–16 — Trades now go through reliably — accepting an offer completes the swap (it could previously do nothing), finalized on the league server. Waivers, the weekly rollover, and the supplemental draft now apply correctly for every owner.
• Builds 122–123 · June 14–15 — Pull to refresh the player list, and Top Players lists sports before their season starts so you can scout and add players early (e.g. BIG3 ahead of its opener).
• Build 121 · June 13 — Reworked the navigation bar across all tabs to fix a crash some testers hit when switching tabs right after opening the app.
• Build 120 · June 12 — Scoring Rules screen (Settings) now matches current scoring across every sport, with the new baseball weights listed for their June 15 start. Plus a deeper fix for the crash when re-tapping a tab right after opening the app.
• Build 119 · June 11 — Baseball scoring rebalanced starting Monday June 15 (Week 8): hitters and pitchers now score comparably, and the best games land in the mid-30s to low-40s like other sports. Scores through June 14 are unchanged.
• Build 118 · June 9 — First pass at the tab-tap crash fix.
• Builds 112–117 · June 8 — Weekly-rollover consistency: your lineup total now matches across the Dashboard, Daily Scores, and Standings; live players lock everywhere (including racing and golf); Top Players opens in Week view and shows each player's owner; Daily Scores opens straight to the right day.
• Builds 102–111 · June 7–8 — Live games glow red across the app — players and sports in action right now. The week now advances automatically Monday at 3am ET, standings load faster, weekend afternoon score updates added, plus a round of code-review hardening.
• Builds 99–101 · June 7 — Scoring rebalance for NHL skaters, WNBA, and EPL (full match scoring, matching MLS); live "playing now" highlight first shipped.
• Builds 87–98 · June 4–6 — First-time onboarding tour and a Help section, crash reporting, and a wave of beta-feedback polish.
• Builds 82–86 · June 3 — League Activity feed (every add, drop, trade, and waiver in one place), add free agents straight from Top Players, and smarter recently-dropped lists.
• Builds 64–81 · May 31 – June 3 — Multi-league support with share-link invites, per-game lineup locks with "best game while in your lineup" scoring (mid-week pickups now work), and major startup and standings speed-ups.
• Build 63 · May 30 — The Dashboard now fully loads on launch — including player locks and "playing today" badges — without needing a pull-to-refresh.
• Build 56 · May 30 — Polish from beta feedback: fixed the onboarding lineup rule (max 2 per sport), added the jersey logo to onboarding, tidied the Top Players stat line, and the Dashboard now loads on launch more reliably.
• Build 55 · May 30 — New Daily Scores screen: every owner's previous-day lineup score, plus who scored (rostered and free agents, with quick-add). Dropped players now honor the 48-hour re-add lockout, you can't drop a starter mid-event, and the launch screen shows the jersey logo.
• Build 54 · May 29 — New UNC jersey "52" logo and app icon. Retired players (like Kyle Busch) are hidden from the add/draft/waiver lists, and the 2026 NASCAR field is corrected.
• Build 53 · May 29 — Players is now its own bottom tab, and the app loads automatically on launch — no more pull-to-refresh when you open it.
• Build 52 · May 29 — New Players hub groups Weekly Scores, Top Players, and Trades in one place.
• Build 51 · May 29 — Bigger, bolder splash screen; the dashboard leader line now uses season names ("Summer Week 5").
• Build 50 · May 29 — Streamlined to three tabs — Dashboard, Team, Standings. Roster and Lineup merged into one Team screen; Settings moved to a gear on the Dashboard.
• Build 49 · May 29 — Clearer "roster full" message when you try to add a 16th player.
• Build 48 · May 29 — New Top Players scouting list — rank players by this-week, quarter, or season average, with a free-agents-only filter.
• Build 47 · May 29 — Folded Season Recap into Standings, adding per-week averages to the Quarter and Season rows.
• Build 46 · May 29 — Standings fill in backfilled weeks correctly; re-tapping a tab returns it to the top.
• Build 45 · May 29 — Keeper-aware draft board plus a new autopick queue you can pre-rank.
• Build 44 · May 29 — Supplemental draft protect/expose — expose 4, claim from free agents plus exposed players, with make-up picks.
• Build 43 · May 29 — New Draft room — live board, on-the-clock countdown, and tap-to-pick.
• Build 42 · May 29 — Redesigned Standings as one scrolling page with Week, Quarter, and Season sections.
• Build 41 · May 29 — Playoffs now play a 3rd-place game for a full 1–8 finish that sets the draft order; corrected the sport count to 18.
• Build 40 · May 29 — Current-quarter standings pinned to the top of the Standings screen.
• Build 39 · May 29 — Playoff brackets — real Title and Consolation brackets plus the October Grand Championship.
• Build 38 · May 29 — New app icon matching the website's navy-and-Carolina-blue "52" mark.
• Build 37 · May 29 — Dashboard shows the season and week ("Summer · Week 5"), cleaner header; your lineup now carries forward automatically each week.
• Build 36 · May 29 — Re-anchored the season to November–October with Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall quarters and the October Grand Championship.
• Build 35 · May 29 — Fixed "playing today" indicators and in-season highlights across every sport.
• Build 34 · May 29 — Per-event lineup locking — each starter locks when their game starts.
• Build 33 · May 28 — Added IndyCar as the 18th sport; renamed the top tier "Keeper."
• Build 32 · May 28 — BIG3 became a keeper-eligible seasonal sport.
• Build 31 · May 28 — Standings now opens on the weekly view.
• Build 30 · May 28 — Added tennis and horse-racing game-day feeds; NASCAR scoreboard fixes.
• Build 29 · May 28 — In-season sports light up green on days they play.
• Build 28 · May 28 — Fixed a cross-sport highlight mix-up and the week-leader line.
• Build 27 · May 28 — Clearer trade-save errors and smoother auto-approve timing.
• Build 26 · May 28 — Added the option to rescind a trade offer.
• Build 25 · May 28 — Game-day detection reliability fix.
• Build 24 · May 28 — Added a commissioner game-day diagnostic.
• Build 23 · May 28 — Fixed game-day data sticking on an empty result.
• Build 22 · May 28 — Fixed game-day date parsing.
• Build 21 · May 28 — Brighter game-day indicators.
• Build 20 · May 27 — Trade proposals now show on the Trades screen.
• Build 19 · May 27 — Maintenance release.
• Build 17 · May 27 — Game-day refinements and navigation polish.
• Build 16 · May 27 — Fixed duplicate player adds; sturdier sign-in.
• Build 15 · May 27 — Dashboard polish, onboarding, and trade access.
• Build 14 · May 26 — Quieted score notifications.
• Build 13 · May 26 — Automatic weekly advance.
• Build 12 · May 26 — Weekly recap filter and "next update" display.
• Build 10 · May 26 — Score persistence, owner details, and polish.
• Build 9 · May 26 — All sports live with automated scoring.
• Build 8 · May 25 — Smart feeds, pull-to-refresh, on-demand stats.
• Build 7 · May 25 — Stats-entry and lineup-refresh improvements.
• Build 6 · May 24 — "The 52 League" rebrand and scoring updates.
• Build 5 · May 23 — First TestFlight build: trades, waivers, weekly wins, welcome screen.