Your dashboard
The dashboard is the first page you see after you log in or register. It has three parts:
- Invitations. Leagues that invited you. Name your team and accept, or decline.
- Your leagues. One card for each league. It shows the league's phase, your team and its record, how many human managers are in, and your next game. The button on each card takes you into that league.
- Create league. Starts a new league of your own.
While a league is still drafting, its button reads Go to draft. After the draft it reads Open league and takes you to the league page with the standings, your next game and the league leaders.
Creating a league
Choose Create league on the dashboard and fill in the form:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| League name | The name shown on every card and invitation. |
| Your team name | What your own team is called. |
| Your league | American or National. The computer teams are split between the two leagues. |
| Max human players | 1, 2, 4, 8, 12 or 30. One means a solo league. Anything higher leaves seats open for friends. |
| Number of teams | 8, 10, 12 or 30. |
| Designated hitter | When it is on, pitchers do not bat. It also decides which players you can draft. See Rosters and the cap. |
When you create the league you return to the dashboard. Computer-run teams fill every other seat, and your draft position is picked at random.
Inviting friends
You are the league's commissioner if you created it. On your league card, Invite managers opens a panel showing how many human managers the league allows, how many are in and how many invitations are still pending.
- Type the email address of each friend you want to invite. There is one box for each open seat.
- Choose Send invites. Every invitation goes out at once.
- The panel lists the result for each address. If one failed, for example because it was mistyped, it stays in its box so you can fix it and send again.
Your friends do not need an account yet. Each invitation counts against an open seat until it is accepted or declined. The Invite managers button only appears on leagues you created that allow more than one human player.
What your friend sees
- They get an email with a link to a page that describes the league and asks them to confirm.
- When they confirm, a new player is sent to the sign-up page with their email filled in. A player who already has an account is sent to the dashboard, and logs in first if needed.
- On the dashboard the invitation is waiting. They name their team and accept, and they go straight to the draft.
The invitation link belongs to the email address it was sent to. If your friend is logged in as someone else, the page asks them to log out and open the link again.
Invite before you draft
A friend takes over a computer-run team that has not made a pick yet. Computer teams begin picking as soon as someone opens the draft room, so send your invitations first.
Playing in several leagues
Each league is separate, with its own teams, players and schedule. The draft, clubhouse, free agency and games always apply to the league you entered last. To switch, go back to the dashboard and use the button on another league's card.