Pick any of 30 franchises, inherit the real cap sheet, and rebuild under CBA rules that actually enforce themselves.
Team situation summary
Austin Anvils
2025-26
Over the first apron
Committed salary
$198.4M
Room to 2nd apron
$9.4M
Committed $198.4M. Salary cap $154.6M, luxury tax $187.9M, first apron $195.9M, second apron $207.8M. This team is over the first apron and $9.4M below the second.
14 under contract, 4 with full Bird rights
Enforced
Bird rights
Stepien Rule
Base year compensation
Poison pill
Sign-and-trade
30
franchises
Every one playable from its real sheet
approximately 76
screens
Front office routes in the current build
4
thresholds
Cap, tax, first apron, second apron
0
accounts
No server, no install, no sign in
Most GM sims letthe trade through.
They approximate the cap, wave the aprons through, and when a deal does get blocked they hand you a red cross and no reason. You learn the rule by guessing which move the game disliked.
Baseline runs the actual rule, then hands you the sentence that stopped you. If you cannot make the move, you find out exactly which clause says so.
Validation
Every trade runs the full check list before it can be submitted. When one fails, the engine returns the reason in a sentence you can act on.
The three below are copied out of the engine unchanged. They are what you would see in the app today.
Trade validation
Sample output
Aggregation limits, matching bands, Bird rights, pick protection, roster minimums and the Stepien Rule all run in the same pass.
Four thresholds, enforced on every signing, trade and extension. The apron bands are far tighter than the cap-to-tax gap, which is what makes a rebuild hard.
The published odds, drawn live.
Salary matching bands, aggregation limits, base year compensation, pick protections. Rejections come with the clause that caused them.
Full, Early and Non-Bird rights tracked per player, so you know before July which of your own you can actually afford to keep.
Simulate a night or a decade. Seeding, play-in, and a bracket that resolves from the same engine.
Players age, break out, and decline on curves that persist across the whole save. Careers accumulate into a Hall of Fame case you can argue with.
Hire for a system, not a rating. Scheme fit shapes how a roster performs.
Dashed rules, top to bottom: 2nd apron, 1st apron, tax, cap.
You start over the first apron. Aggregation is off the table, so the only legal exits are one for one.
Moving money costs draft capital, and the Stepien Rule caps how many consecutive firsts you can send.
Room is real for exactly one summer. Renouncing your own cap holds is what pays for it.
Sign the window you actually have, then use Bird rights to go back over the cap for your own players.
Back above the tax line, this time because the roster is worth paying for.
The simulation is a separate, pure module with no interface code in it. That is what makes a rule testable rather than a claim.
The closed alpha opens in waves. Leave an address and you get one when the next wave does.
This opens the project's public issue form on GitHub, where the signup lives. No mailing list, no tracker, nothing set on this page.