How Dugout Dynasty works

Build a team from every era of baseball, then play out a season against friends and computer-run clubs. This guide walks through each step.

Quick start

  1. Create an account and open your dashboard. It lists every league you manage and any invitations waiting for you.
  2. Create a league, or accept an invitation to someone else's. See Leagues and invitations.
  3. Draft your team. You pick one player from one season at a time and stay under an $80 million salary cap. See The draft.
  4. Set your batting order and starting rotation in the clubhouse.
  5. Play your games, or simulate them, until the 162-game schedule is finished. See Playing the season.

In this guide

What is not in the game yet

Still being built

Playoffs and a World Series, an All-Star break, injuries, bullpen roles, separate lineups against left-handed pitchers, and releasing a player are not in the game yet. Where a page describes a feature that only partly works, it says so.