Features
A career game, not a season game
This is the decision everything else hangs off. We are not optimizing for one exciting afternoon.
The long arc is the product
You are meant to run a franchise for twenty seasons, or sixty, or a hundred and twenty, and have it still make sense. That is a harder engineering problem than a good single season and it is the bar we hold ourselves to before anything ships: if the state of a league at the end of a season is not coherent, nothing else matters.
An owner who is not you
Seven owner archetypes who authorize very different payrolls on identical revenue. The same $420 million of income supports a $256 million payroll under one owner and $142 million under another, so the job is not the same job in every seat.
A staff with opinions
Five manager archetypes and eight coaching seats. Your pitching coach decides how faithfully the game plan actually gets executed, which means a good one shows up in the box score rather than in a menu.
Players who are people
Sixty-six named ratings per player before you count his arsenal, including eight personality traits that move real outcomes: intelligence, work ethic, greed, loyalty, leadership, wanting to play for a winner, adaptability, and a taste for controversy. Morale runs off seven drivers with clubhouse chemistry on top, and a player far enough underwater asks out.
Related
The invite-only beta is open. Nothing to install.