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October 5, 2026

The guided demos run themselves now

  • 🎬A guided demo opens with a start card: sound on or off, play through or click your own way, then one button to begin. That button is doing real work — a browser refuses to play audio until the viewer has clicked something, so pressing Start is what lets every clip from there on come through out loud instead of silently.
  • 🔊Sound is on by default and carries across the whole tour. Turn it off on any step and it stays off; turn it back on and it stays on. The control sits under the narrator rather than on top of it, so nothing slides over the presenter when your mouse passes by.
  • ▶Play through advances on its own as each clip finishes. The pacing for embedded clips was reading about nine seconds slow on every step — it's now calibrated against the real recordings, so the tour moves on about when the narrator stops talking.
  • 🏈Removed the drawn football-field backdrop behind the narrator. The recorded clips bring their own set, and two fields stacked on each other was one too many.
  • 🎥Narration videos can be set per step from Demo tours, and a HeyGen video ID works as well as a full share link.

October 3, 2026

Handicapper cards show what a loss actually cost

  • 💰The Run a Fundraiser demo is rebuilt around a real campaign. It now shows the admin screen where the announcement is written — headline, a couple of highlights, a photo — with the email building itself beside you, then the finished email with Anderson's own weight-room photo on it, in the inbox and on a phone. The six discounts show their partners' real logos instead of emoji, the summary prints on white so it doesn't drink your ink, and the demo pass no longer links to a page that 404s.
  • ➖Negative points are visible everywhere now. In a handicapper pool a losing pick subtracts what you staked — the scoring always did that, but the scorecard printed "✗ 0" on every loss and added up only the wins, so a card could read +22 while the standings said −7. Losses now show as −6, weekly totals go negative, and the standings table stops rounding a negative season up to zero. One formatter behind all of it so the pages can't drift apart again. (Classic confidence pools are unchanged — a miss there is still simply zero.)
  • 🧾Fixed a double entry in the points ledger: a handicapper loss was listed twice, once correctly as a negative and once as a 0.
  • 🧹The gold Play button is gone from the top-right of every page. Open Play still sits in the main navigation, so the games are one click away as before — the header just isn't shouting at you any more.

October 2, 2026

Commissioner tools: get members in, see the field

  • 🔑"Can't get in?" on every member row. A commissioner can send a one-click sign-in link, or set a temporary password and email the member their username and password. Passwords are stored hashed, so an existing one can never be looked up and re-sent — the temporary one replaces it, and the member is made to choose their own the moment they sign in, so nobody is left sharing a password.
  • 👁A pool can now let its commissioner see members' cards before kickoff — off everywhere by default, and switched on per league. Where it's on, the picks board says so to every member: an exception people can see is fair, a quiet one isn't. Members still see each other's picks only once a game starts.
  • 🏟Legends gamecast: the real final score of each drawn game is gone from the player lines. A row now reads "wk 12 · vs PHI" — the week and the opponent, without a second scoreboard competing with the fantasy matchup you're actually watching.

October 1, 2026

A demo built for the WBCA, and every weight one tap away

  • ⭐Handicapper pools: the quick-weight buttons now walk the whole range your pool allows. They were hardcoded to 5 and 10 plus your min and max, so a 5-to-25 pool offered 5, 10 and 25 and skipped 15 and 20 — which happen to be the two weights players use most. Now it's 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and every other pool gets round numbers end to end.
  • 🏀A guided demo built for the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association, in the association's own colors and logos. Fifteen steps: importing member schools under the association, setting up Hoops Hysteria and Bracket Madness, the kick-off kit, the announcement email, a supporter's phone, the six-team draw, twelve weeks of wins, the Monday report, cash prizes, the $50 both-brackets bundle, and what the association sees across the state. Find it at /demo/wbca.

September 29, 2026

Every win counted

  • 🏈Fixed: a handful of wins weren't being counted. Our sports feed abbreviates a few programs differently in its own two endpoints — its team list says BUF and AF where its scoreboard says BUFF and AFA — so Buffalo, Air Force and Utah (NHL) never matched a team on our side. Games involving them finished with no winner recorded, and any roster holding the other side silently missed the points. Teams are now matched by school name when the abbreviation doesn't line up, a win counts even when we can't identify the opponent, and all 16 affected games have been repaired and rescored.

September 28, 2026

The Monday Morning Sports Report

  • 📰The weekly recap is now the Monday Morning Sports Report, and it goes out at 4 AM ET Monday instead of Sunday evening. It was landing at 8 PM Sunday — while Sunday night games were still being played — so it reviewed a week that wasn't finished. Basketball and hockey play far more Sunday nights than football does. It opens on your dashboard now, with your league's full standings one line below.
  • 👥A team can have more than one email now. Plenty of entries are run by two or three people, and only the login holder was hearing from us. Commissioners get an "Also email" field on each member row, and anyone a member added through Share Entry is now included too — so the Monday report, the missing-picks nudge, draw notices, and commissioner announcements all reach the whole team. One person running three teams still gets a single email listing all three.

September 23, 2026

Game results stopped going stale

  • ✍️A commissioner's own line now sticks. If a pool sets its own number on a game — the sheet that actually went out to players — the next feed sync no longer quietly moves it back to the sportsbook's.
  • 📉Fixed: most college games showed no betting line. Our sports feed returns at most 25 games per request no matter how it's asked, so a full Saturday slate never arrived whole and the rest sat unpickable. Any game still missing a line is now looked up on its own page, before kickoff as well as after — this week's board went from 33 of 71 college games with a line to all 71.
  • 🎯Handicapper pools risk the points — a losing pick now subtracts what you put on it, so a bad week goes negative, the way a handicap pool actually plays. Confidence and pick'em pools are unchanged (a loss is still simply zero).
  • 🃏Back the spread AND the total of the same game — handicapper players can now put points on a team and on that game's over/under as two separate bets. (Admin: run migration 0157.)
  • ⏱Fantasy weeks can't stall on live stats any more — in-game stat lines are marked provisional so a week can't settle mid-game, but if the overnight official stats never replaced a player's line, that week would wait forever. Once every game of the week has been final for a day, the live numbers stand and the week settles.
  • 🛠Fixed: finished games could sit on “scheduled” forever, which quietly stalls every pool that scores off final results. Our sports feed was asking for results by date RANGE, and that request returns nothing at all — no error, just an empty answer. Every sync now asks one day at a time, and 249 stranded games were backfilled with their real finals (103 baseball, 75 college football, 32 hockey, 23 WNBA, 16 NFL).
  • 🛟A backup result source — any game that kicked off but never finished is now looked up directly by game id through a second feed. A missed sync, a cron gap or a week rolling over repairs itself on the next pass instead of stranding the game.
  • 📅Schedules refresh on their own daily pass — the frequent sync now covers just-played and imminent games, while the three-week forward schedule (dates, TV, opening lines) updates once a day.

September 15, 2026

Search everything in admin, and Monday Night Football back on the board

  • 🔍Search everywhere in admin — a search box now sits at the top of the admin sidebar (press / from any admin page) and finds users, leagues, league members, dealers, organizations, fundraisers and Open Play games, salespeople, templates, requests, messages, discounts, gift cards and gift codes in one place, grouped by type. Paste an ID to jump straight to that record.
  • 🔎Every admin list is searchable — Users, Dealers, Organizations, Fundraisers, Open Play, Game Templates, Discounts, Requests, Applications, Messages, Payouts, League Payouts, Gift Fan Passes and Tax Docs each have their own search box, and it combines with the page's status or campaign filter. The Users search reaches every account, not just the 200 newest.
  • 🏈Fixed: the Monday night NFL game was missing from pick'em boards, the lines sheet export, line snapshots, commissioner slates and Survivor. The pool week runs Tuesday through Monday Eastern, but its end was calculated in UTC — which lands at 8:00 PM ET Monday, just before the 8:15 PM kickoff. Every week now ends at Tuesday midnight Eastern, and it stays correct when clocks change in November.

September 14, 2026

Fantasy feels like game day: Yahoo-style league pages, kickoff locks & live everything

  • 🏈Open Fantasy Leagues on Open Play — a dedicated section for house-run fantasy leagues with open seats (Fantasy Football live off the real season, Fantasy Legends drafting the all-time greats); it and the Multi-Sport Year-Long Pools section are always visible, with enrolling-soon states until the first platform pools open.
  • 🎟Open Play is platform-run only — the catalog now lists ONLY house-run games (platform-funds, admin-attested): commissioner leagues and every demo/sandbox league are excluded. Demos live on the sales pages and /demo-access where they belong.
  • 🗂Season-long pools filed by sport — a sport-specific pool or league (Fantasy Football, a bracket, squares) now appears under its sport in the Open Play catalog pills; only pools spanning MULTIPLE sports show in the renamed "Multi-Sport Year-Long Pools" section.
  • 📣Commissioner announcements ON the league page — every blast (and delivered scheduled message) now also posts to a bulletin-board section at the top of League Home, newest open, older ones collapsed.
  • 📬Email samples with REAL data — the sample recap is now built from the actual league it's sent from: real standings, records and points (or the live running totals mid-week). Admins send themselves any template from Data Ops → Email Samples; demo visitors get the button on the launchpad AND inside each demo tour (own address, once a day).
  • 🏫Organizations with sub-orgs — an athletic association (or district, or conference) can now carry its member schools: paste the list once and each becomes its own organization under the parent. Run one initiative for all of them — every ticket credits a school — and the parent's page shows the split (tickets, gross, share %) with a CSV export, so the org can distribute funds by sales. One click adds all sub-orgs to a shared campaign.
  • 📣Cross-promotion everywhere it counts — the weekly recap email now closes with the other games + Open Play; Fantasy Free commissioners see the all-8-games upgrade note in HQ; My Entries carries an Open Play banner for individual players; and the promo strip highlights the game whose season it is (Squares before the Super Bowl, Brackets in March, fantasy in draft season).
  • 🎮"More ways to play" on every fantasy page — the League Home, Matchup and Gamecast pages now close with the other seven games (each linking to its deep dive) plus the hands-on funnel: playground, mock drafts and free demo access.
  • 🚩Dispute points from the Matchup page too — the "Points look wrong?" form now sits under your head-to-head as well as on box scores.
  • 🚑Injury alerts on every player — the live NFL injury report (Out · Doubtful · Questionable · IR) stamps the player pool every sync, and the badge shows everywhere: My Team, box scores, the Matchup page, free agents and the draft board. Q in gold, OUT/D/IR in red — hover the badge for the beat-writer note ("exited the third quarter with a hamstring…").
  • 📊Stat lines always on the Matchup page — every played player's real numbers now sit right under his name (no tapping), with the honest "no stats" note when he put up nothing.
  • 🤷Honest zero-point lines — a player whose game is done but put up nothing now says "game played — no fantasy stats recorded" (or "in the game — no stats yet" while live), instead of a bare 0.0.
  • ⏱Live points update EVERY MINUTE — a dedicated fast-lane sync now probes the live scoreboard every 60 seconds during NFL games (and the pages refresh themselves every 30), so Fantasy Football points tick up near-live.
  • 🤖Fantasy Football weeks settle THEMSELVES — no more "Score Week" button on real-time leagues: once every game of the NFL week is final and the authoritative overnight stats land, the platform settles the week automatically.
  • 🔮Legends up-next matchups are clickable — the League Home board shows projected totals and clicks through to the full projected matchup, without spoiling the draw.
  • 💬Game chat on every box score — the same live room as the Gamecast now sits right on the matchup box score, so Fantasy Football leagues can talk trash while the real games score their week.
  • 📺Scoring a Legends week jumps straight to the Gamecast — hit "Score Week" and you land on the broadcast of the week you just scored (your own matchup when you have a team), ready to watch the reveal.
  • 🎬The demo tour tucks away — it's now a collapsible accordion on both demo leagues: one gold bar until you open it.
  • 🏟Matchup cards ARE a scoreboard now — dark panel, teams stacked, big amber tabular digits with the leader lit bright, and during a live week each team shows who's left: "🔴 2 playing · 3 yet to play" / "all played". On the League Home board and the Schedule (finals, live and projected).
  • 🎬The Fantasy Football demo has its own guided tour — the seeded live-scoring league now walks visitors through the live board, Matchup, weekly lineups on My Team, the waiver wire, proposing a TRADE, projected matchups and the draft room.
  • 📋Set lineups for FUTURE weeks — My Team now has a pill per unscored week: the current week (kickoff locks apply) plus every week ahead. Swap freely on a future week and that lineup takes effect for that week only; weeks you don't touch keep your current lineup. Scoring, box scores and the Gamecast all honor it. (Admin: run migration 0155.)
  • 🔮Preview any future matchup — every game on the Schedule is now clickable: finals open the box score, the live week opens the live box score, and FUTURE games open a projected matchup (each starter's average points, side by side) — without spoiling a Legends draw.
  • 🎨Box scores laid out cleaner — alternating row stripes, the game result tucked next to each player's team, and a proper aligned points column.
  • 🔎Draft Room filters always on — the player pool with its search, position and team filters now shows before the draft opens (scout the pool) and after it completes (browse the undrafted), not just mid-draft.
  • ⚡Fantasy pages load in a fraction of the time — box scores and live totals now come from batched, parallel scoring instead of one query per player, so tapping a matchup opens it fast.
  • 📆The fantasy week runs Tuesday→Monday — a player's game chip always shows THIS week's game: Thursday's final stays up (with its score) through Monday night, never next week's kickoff.
  • 🔄Live pages refresh themselves — the League Home, Schedule and Matchup pages quietly re-fetch every 30 seconds during a live Fantasy Football week; scores tick up without touching reload.
  • 🗂ONE Yahoo-style menu — the league bar across the top of every fantasy page is now the menu: League · My Team · Players · Trades · Matchup · Schedule · Standings · Draft Room · Smack Talk · Rules (My Team/Players/Trades on Fantasy Football, where start/sit and waivers live). The duplicate pill row is gone.
  • 🔀Switch teams anywhere — the Matchup page's team dropdown shows any team's current head-to-head, and the Schedule page gets a team filter to follow one team's season.
  • 🏠The league IS the landing page — once a fantasy season exists, the league link goes straight to League Home (this week's matchups, standings, tabs) instead of the sales-style pool page; the demo tour moved there too. Pre-draft, the join/register page still greets new members.
  • 🏈Team, game time & SCORE on every player — each fantasy player shows his NFL team plus this week's REAL game: kickoff day & time in YOUR time zone before it starts, a red LIVE pill with the live score and game clock while he's playing, and the final with W/L after ("W 36–31 @ HOU"). On box scores, the Matchup page, My Team and the Players board.
  • 🔴Players in a live game pop — rows highlight red with a pulsing LIVE chip and bold points while that player's real game is being played.
  • 📊Tap a matchup row for live stats — the Matchup page now expands any slot to both players' full stat lines (289 pass yds · 2 TDs …), live or final.
  • 🔒Kickoff locks your lineup — once a player's real game starts, he can't be swapped in OR out for that week (server-enforced, with a 🔒 and his game time right on the My Team page). No more hindsight substitutions.
  • 🔎Draft room team filter — filter the draft board (and free agents) by NFL team, alongside search and the position pills.
  • 🚩Dispute the points — every fantasy box score has a "Points look wrong?" form; pick the player, say what's off, and it lands in our review queue. You get the outcome by email, and corrections update the score for everyone.
  • 🧾Admin Points Log — a new Data Ops ledger of every synced stat line of the live season, searchable and sortable by player, with per-stat inline overrides. An overridden line is stamped and BOTH stat feeds (in-game and nightly) skip it until the override is removed — hand corrections stick.

September 12, 2026

Custom fantasy scoring, league rule pages & Career Mode

  • 🎯Customizable fantasy scoring — commissioners of Fantasy Legends AND Fantasy Football leagues can now set their own point values for every stat (passing yards per point, TD values, turnovers, kicking distances, the QB Win-Game bonus and more) under League Settings → League scoring. Leave a value alone and the platform default applies.
  • 📋Players see their league's rules — a full scoring table on every fantasy season page and in the draft room, with commissioner-customized values flagged "league" so everyone drafts and plays knowing exactly what counts.
  • 📖How-to-play guides built in — step-by-step instructions for running Fantasy Legends and Fantasy Football (setup → draft → scoring weeks → playoffs) on the commissioner's league Overview, and a player edition on every season page.
  • 🏈Fantasy Legends draws are real games, presented that way — Career Mode pools only FULL seasons a legend played, and every weekly breakdown now shows the exact game the stat line came from (e.g. "1997 wk 7").
  • 🕐Time zone on your main Dashboard — the picker now also lives on the GOAT Dashboard's Account tab (next to your name and password), and one save applies everywhere: fundraiser game times and league game times alike.
  • 🎬One-click demo league (admin) — Data Ops → Fantasy Legends seeds a REAL league end-to-end: 8 teams, a full 112-pick snake draft from the historical pool, six weeks scored, standings, box scores and a Gamecast on every final — with the remaining weeks left for you to score live in front of an audience.
  • 🧢Custom weekly lineups & bench — League Settings now sets how many of each position start every week (QBs, RBs, WRs, TE, FLEX, K, defenders) and how many bench spots each team carries (bench never scores) — for BOTH fantasy games; draft rounds, auto-pick, box scores and Gamecasts all follow. Set before the draft.
  • 🧾Point log on every box score — an itemized log of every point scored (player, stat, points, valued by your league's rules), live weeks included, right under the lineups.
  • 🕹🎬Three demos per game on the sales pages — Interactive Demo (a live mid-season league to tour, plus mock drafts and hands-on sandboxes) and the Quick Tour (the recorded walkthrough), side by side on each game's page.
  • 🎁Free Demo Access lead capture (/demo-access) — one registration unlocks every demo league, the playground, both mock drafts AND the Fantasy Free commissioner plan (auto-activated, no card); existing accounts get a magic link; every registration is receipted as a sales lead. CTAs on the League Management hero and the playground.
  • 🔴Live scoring on the Schedule page too — a Fantasy Football league's current week shows running totals with a live badge and tap-through live box scores; the schedule banner explains the live sync.
  • 🕹The Game Playground (/try) — hands-on sandboxes for Squares (tap to claim squares, lock the board, simulate the game and watch winners land), Handicapper, Confidence Picks and Survivor (your own private league on this week's REAL board — bots have their picks in, you make yours). Free, one per game per user, resumable, with Try-it-hands-on buttons on those games' pages.
  • 🏷The draw game is now the WWOS Pool everywhere — wizard, sales pages, demos.
  • 🎬A shareable live demo for EVERY game — one-click seeders (Data Ops) now cover Fantasy Football (full 160-pick draft off the live 2026 pool, scored by the real season), the WWOS Pool (a completed live draw with real teams), Handicapper (48 picks on this week's real board), Survivor (this week's picks in), and Squares (locked board, drawn digits, a settled game with winners) — all public by link, like the Legends demo.
  • 🕹Mock drafts for BOTH fantasy games — the /mock-draft lobby now offers Fantasy Legends AND Fantasy Football 2026: pick your game, own a team, bots draft around you on a 30-second clock.
  • 🆓Fantasy Free commissioner tier — run Fantasy Legends and Fantasy Football leagues at no cost, forever (1 league). Every paid tier is now the upgrade: all 8 game types, more leagues. The free plan activates instantly on the join page; non-fantasy games show locked in the league wizard until you upgrade. (Admins: Finance → League Plans has the new Fantasy-only flag.)
  • 🔴LIVE in-game fantasy stats — Traditional Fantasy lineups now update DURING the games: live player box scores sync every few minutes while NFL games are being played, so points tick up on Sunday in near real time. Weeks can't be settled mid-game; the authoritative finals land overnight and unlock settling.
  • 🗂Every league game gets its own page — the League Management page now links each of the eight games to a deep dive (/league-management/games/…): what it is, how it runs step by step, what commissioners can customize, and Start-a-league / Watch-the-demo CTAs. Fantasy Legends' page carries the two modes (Player Seasons vs Careers), the dealt-like-cards story, game nights, and the mock draft.
  • 🎟Open Play, explained — the Open Play page opens with what these games actually are (house-run sweepstakes anyone can join: how you enter, how you win, where the money goes) and the catalog is organized by sport with pill filters (All · 🏈 Football · 🏀 Basketball …) showing live-game counts.
  • 🐐Fantasy Legends on the sales page — a flagship section pitching BOTH ways to run it (📅 Player Seasons: draft the season, 1997 Favre is one pick; 🏆 Careers: draft the player, one Favre per league, his whole career) plus the Pick-your-game-night auto-cast promise.
  • ⏱Draft clock & auto-pick in League Settings — the pick clock (off / 30s / 1–5 min) and the auto-pick style (best available · fill positions in order · random) now live in League Settings for both fantasy games; the draft room follows, and a clock change applies to a running draft on save. Every timed room flashes a red ⚠ at 10 seconds ("Pick now or it auto-drafts!"). Mock drafts run a 30-second clock.
  • 🕹Mock drafts for EVERYONE — a public Mock Draft lobby (League Manager → /mock-draft, and a button on the League Management page): any signed-in user starts a live mock draft where they own a team and seven bots pick around them, resumable, one per user, free.
  • ⏰Missing-picks reminder emails — pick'em and survivor members with NO picks in for the week now get a nudge Thursday and a last call Saturday morning (Eastern), with a one-click link to their picks page. Commissioners can switch it off under Draw notifications; every send is receipted in the delivery log.
  • 🏟Real final scores on every drawn game — each fantasy player's line now shows how his actual game ended: "1997 wk 7 · W 24–17 vs DEN" on box scores and Gamecast rails alike (1999+; admin imports team results once).
  • 🕹LIVE mock draft demo (admin) — one click opens a real 8-team draft room where YOU own a team and bot teams pick around you: watch the clock rotate, see who's on the clock, and make your picks off the actual historical pool. Data Ops → Fantasy Legends.
  • 🏈Gamecast drives & possession — the broadcast now plays out in real drives: possession alternates (the ball icon shows who has it), the hot hand chains (Mahomes can rip off three completions in a row), touchdowns end drives with the extra point right behind, stalled drives bring the kicker on, and a sack or pick from the other side can end a drive cold.
  • 📅Fantasy Schedule & Standings pages — the season hub now has a pill menu (Overview · Schedule · Standings · Draft board). The Schedule page shows a pill per week: finals link to box scores and Gamecasts, future weeks show projections (each starter's average points per real game) and their cast dates.
  • 📺Auto-cast game nights — Legends commissioners can schedule a weekly day & time (Eastern) in League Settings and the platform scores the next week automatically every week; the schedule shows exactly when each week casts, in your time zone.
  • 💬Game chat on every Gamecast — a live chat room under each game (sign in to post; messages arrive in real time for everyone watching).
  • 🧮"Where the points come from" — a plain-English explainer on every fantasy draft room and season page (open by default before the draft), and a new "Real games, dealt like cards" section on the League Management sales page: modern seasons are actual box scores dealt in a sealed random order, classics (1970–1998) are rebuilt era-fair from official season totals.
  • 📊Real stat lines everywhere — every fantasy box score now shows each player's actual numbers (289 pass yds · 2 pass TDs · 1 INT thrown) under their points, and the Gamecast side rails carry them too.
  • 📺Fantasy Gamecast — watch any settled fantasy matchup as a live 30-minute broadcast: every rush, completion, catch, kick and turnover lands as its own play, quarter by quarter — touchdowns cap real plays (a 15-yard TD catch carries the yards AND the six), just like real fantasy scoring — with a real line score (Q1–Q4). Both ROSTERS flank the board with each player's points climbing under his name (click a player for his play-by-play ledger), and the feed runs in two columns — one per team. Pace it at 30 / 15 / 5 / 2 minutes, pause, step, or skip to the final. On every final matchup's box score.
  • 🏈Fantasy Legends: Career Mode — commissioners can now choose leagues that draft the PLAYER, not the season: one Brett Favre per league, and every week Billy Bob draws a random game from his entire career. Optional QB Win-Game bonus (+10 when your QB's team won the game drawn) — both per-league toggles at creation.
  • 🕐Time zone for every player — the picker now leads the league Settings page (⚙ next to your name in the header, or Dashboard → Settings), and every game time follows it.
  • 🕐League game clocks fixed — kickoff times across Live Games, picks, standings, survivor, the draw board, and scorecards now show in Eastern time by default (they were rendering 4 hours ahead), and every time respects the time zone you choose under Dashboard → Settings.

September 11, 2026

A smarter fundraising planner

  • 🧮Plan by what you're buying — set your goal as a dollar amount OR cost-per-item × how many (40 uniforms at $85), then see tickets needed, add how many groups are selling, and get the average per group.
  • 📄Rep proposals — GOAT reps can brand the plan with an organization's name and logo and print a one-page proposal, ready to leave behind.

September 9, 2026

Sharper line control

  • 🕗Lines-of-the-day now captures at a day AND time (ET) — commissioners pick both, members see exactly when the week's lines lock (e.g. "captured Wednesdays at 8 AM ET").
  • 📨Bulk invites — one click emails a sign-in invite to every member who hasn't signed up yet (or re-invites the whole league, with a confirm), instead of clicking Invite row by row.
  • 🧾Invite log — every invite is receipted on the Members tab: single, bulk, member import, one-click nudges, and admin-sent invites alike — who was invited, when, sent or failed, and by whom.
  • 🧾Message delivery log — league announcements (sent now or scheduled) AND the Monday weekly recap emails get the same per-recipient receipt on the Message tab, alongside the sent history.
  • ✓Joined status on the members list — every member shows whether they've actually signed in (joined / not in yet / no email), with a joined count in the header and filters for both.
  • 📥Bulk pick import for pick'em leagues — paste past weeks' picks (member, game date, team or total, stars) and they're matched to the real games, entered past the locks, and auto-scored. Perfect for moving a mid-season league onto the platform.

September 8, 2026

AI quizzes, new demos, and a smoother Account page

  • 🤖AI quiz generation at the Teacher's Desk — name any topic and grade band and an 8-question, auto-graded quiz is written for you, grounded in this week's real final scores.
  • 🎬Guided demos for Watercooler Games and Teach With Sports — animated start-to-finish walkthroughs, linked from each product page.
  • 📄Teacher's Desk verification: a confirmation banner with the share code after every creation, live "Generating…" button states, an answer-key preview on every assignment, and one-click access to the student view.
  • ⚙️Account page fixes: saving your eligibility or password now keeps you on the Account page, and the account warning shows amber when info is merely missing (red only if you're ineligible).
  • 🔎Admin: the Sweepstakes & Draws list adds a League Manager dropdown (jump to any league) and a live search by league or commissioner name.
  • ⬇️Download the board — pick'em leagues get a one-click Excel export of the week: every game with its spread and over/under, your picks inline, plus everyone's picks on games that have kicked off.
  • 🧭My Entries now opens the right page for every game — pick'em, survivor, squares, bracket, and fantasy entries go straight to your league instead of a roster page meant for the WWOS Poll.
  • 🔐Sign-in overhaul on League Manager: creating an account signs you in immediately (no more "confirm your email"), signing in takes you straight to your entries, emailed sign-in links are delivered reliably and work in any browser, and invited members set a password on their first visit so they can always get back in.
  • ⭐Handicapper: commissioners can now set a minimum stars-per-game alongside the max — every pick must carry at least that much confidence.
  • ↔️One-tap confidence swaps — on any ranked pick, hit swap and tap the value you want: if another pick holds it, the two trade places instantly. Works even after your card is full (as long as neither game has kicked off).

September 7, 2026

Two new products, smarter admin, rock-solid email

  • 💼Watercooler Games — office pools without the office risk: the company funds the prizes, employees play free.
  • 📚Teach With Sports — classroom lessons powered by real games, a print-ready worksheet generated from this week's actual scores, and a free live classroom contest with optional prizes.
  • 🔐Sign-in links rebuilt: delivered from our own email pipeline and working on any device or browser.
  • 📬Guaranteed email delivery — every invite, recap, and announcement now retries automatically until it lands.
  • 📊Standings chart no longer overlaps names on tied scores.

September 6, 2026

Draw night 2.0, live games everywhere, new demos

  • 🎰Draw board redesign: every member's slots visible from the start ("Picking Soon…"), a rotating "On the clock — next pick" header, "The pick is in for…" reveals, and a Draft Order rail with green/amber highlights.
  • 🔴Live Games page for WWOS leagues — live scores, clocks, and possession, with each team tagged to the member who owns it.
  • 🧾"My Roster" tab jumps straight to your own scorecard.
  • 🏀Basketball naming cleanup: Men's/Women's College BB and Men's/Women's Pro BB.
  • 🎬All eight League Manager game demos: WWOS Poll, Handicapper, Confidence Picks, Survivor, Squares, Bracket, and both Fantasy games.

September 5, 2026

Two brand-new league games + Handicapper upgrades

  • 📊Confidence Picks — the classic office pool: rank EVERY game on the weekly board, most to least confident. Boards from all games, top-25 matchups, a commissioner slate, or your own team pool.
  • 🪓Survivor — one sport, one pick a week. Win and live, lose and you're out; commissioner-set buy-backs and team-reuse limits.
  • 🎯Handicapper (formerly Confidence) — weekly-winner side pots, a league start date, and commissioner-set minimum picks per sport.
  • 🎥Guided demos launched — animated start-to-finish walkthroughs of every product, no video required.

September 4, 2026

Standings that tell the story

  • 📅"This week" tab on standings — every member's record, points, and games still to play (with a confidence-pool version showing card status).
  • 🏁Title math on the board: max possible points, "out of the race," 👑 title clinched, and 🔒 locked into the money.
  • 📸"Season at a glance" cards on every league's front page — place, the chase, weekly form, MVP and dead weight, rivalry radar, and pick nudges.
  • 📈Insights page for pick'em leagues — every team's record against the spread and over/under, sortable and searchable.

August 2026

The commissioner suite and the foundation

  • 🛠Commissioner superpowers: weekly recap emails, one-tap nudges, league branding with your logo, co-commissioners, suspend/reinstate, scheduled announcements, and one-click season renewal.
  • 🖥Server-driven draw reveals — draw night runs on our servers, never a browser tab; commissioners can close the laptop.
  • 🎟Squares tournaments (per-event lines and re-scrambles), bracket challenges, and two fantasy football modes.
  • 🧾Print-ready summaries and white, ink-friendly emails; scorecards showing every game — wins and losses.

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