Overview sprint · review

#1345 head ba4e507b · stack top #1350 5c63836f · draft, not merged · recorded data 2026-10-20 (after Week 6)

Review checklist (about 5 minutes)

1. Open Front Office; you land on Overview. Look at the Cap card.Player salaries $286,000 · Salary adjustments +$9,000 · Total allocated $295,000 of $300,000 · Cap space $5,000.
2. Click Player salaries.Active roster (30) $270,000 · Injured reserve (4) $32,000 · Taxi squad (3) $8,000 → $310,000 on the roster; relief: IR −$16,000, taxi −$8,000 → $286,000, with “✓ Adds up”. Open “Active roster” to see every player.
3. Close it (Esc or ×) and click Salary adjustments.Seven drops (+$9,200 exact), “Rounding to the nearest $1,000 (canon §6)” −$200 → cap penalties +$9,000; traded salary $0; miscellaneous $0; total +$9,000 ✓. The 2027 drops are listed separately, outside the total.
4. Look at Lineup strength (Above repl. is selected).Overall +2.9, QB −2.9, RB −15.0, WR +18.6 … K −0.3, P 0.0: the same numbers as your row in Trades → Trade finder. K and P are faded.
5. Click PPG, Index, then Rank.PPG: Overall 240.6, WR 77.9, RB 18.0. Index: Overall 100, WR 155, RB 49. Rank: Overall 6th, WR 1st, RB 12th, DL 3rd.
6. Look at Trade deadline.“N days · MFL stops trades Tue, Nov 24, 12:00 PM ET” (35 days on Oct 20). Signed out of MFL, the live card says “Sign in to MFL to see when MFL stops trades”.
7. Check the cards.Cap, Roster, This week, Trade deadline, Needs attention, Lineup strength, Draft picks. No “Contracts ending this season”.
8. Narrow to about 1024 px, then open Inside an MFL-style page.No sideways scroll; cards reflow to two columns; the ledgers open there too.

Before / after

Cap reconciliation, all 12 franchises

In-page: Front Office’s capLedger vs its own cap card (capFor): groups add up, player salaries = card, adjustments = card, items add to their category, allocated = card, cap space = card, salaries + adjustments = allocated. Independent: recomputed from the raw recorded data with MFL’s formula (ROSTER salaries + IR at 50% + every MFL salary adjustment; taxi excluded), outside the Front Office code.

Every team passes all seven in-page checks. Player salaries and each adjustment category equal MFL’s data. Total allocated equals MFL’s exact sum except for the drop-penalty rounding Front Office already applies (canon §6: penalties round to the nearest $1,000 per team; the true-up posts to MFL at the Auction Cut Deadline). The ledger shows that rounding as its own line, so the card and the ledger agree; MFL’s own screen can differ by that amount until the true-up.

Lineup strength: definitions

Real Deal Creel, recorded Week 7 (12 teams, 18 slots, 1075 free agents in the replacement pool):

Population check: every team has 18 Overall starters, one K and one P; position PPGs add up to Overall; every position’s vs-median equals the Trade finder model. All pass.

Trade deadline: MFL vs other sources

The card now reads MFL’s calendar export (TYPE=calendar) with the viewer’s MFL session. MFL serves that export only to a signed-in league member, so this preview uses a stand-in built from the three events on MFL’s public calendar page; the live card reads MFL directly. Nothing on MFL or in canon was changed. #1217 (reminders) is still open.

Tests

• New: lineup_strength_views (4 tests, 926 assertions on the real 2026 Wk 6 fixture), fo_cap_ledger (4 / 27), front_office_overview_cards (5 / 32), and a new case in front_office_rank_universe for the stale-model bug.
• Found and fixed while checking the live preview: the deadline label read differently in Safari (“at”), and the Overview could throw before boot on a slow network.
• Full safe suite: 249 passed, 0 failed on 5c63836f merged locally with main 216b0087; 224 passed, 1 failed on 5c63836f alone (twr_merge_state passes only on main’s current tip).

Not verified

• The live card reading MFL’s calendar with a real owner session (preview uses a stand-in).
• Signed-in owner behavior, real Safari, the live MFL page around Front Office.

Decisions before finalizing

1. Lineup strength default view. Recommend keeping Above repl. as the default (continuity with the Trade finder), with PPG/Index/Rank one click away.
2. Replacement starters in PPG/Index/Rank. Today’s model fills any slot where a replacement free agent beats the team’s own option (Real Deal Creel: 3 such starters, RB/K/P; one team has 6). Recommend keeping one population (consistent with the chart) and noting “includes N replacement-level starters”; the alternative is rostered players only (empty slot = 0), which would make the views disagree with Above repl.
3. Average for Index = mean; the original chart uses the median. Recommend leaving the chart on the median (no silent redefinition).
4. Flex attribution. Position rows count Flex/SuperFlex/D-Flex starters by the player’s position, so rows add up to Overall. Alternative: fixed slots per position + a separate Flex row. Recommend keeping.
5. Cap rounding vs MFL’s screen. Front Office shows drop penalties rounded per canon §6 (8 teams differ from MFL’s exact sum by −$250 to +$500 until the true-up posts). Recommend keeping, with the rounding line in the ledger.
6. Trade deadline. MFL closes Tue Nov 24 noon; the league calendar, Commish Settings and canon say Nov 25–26. Your ruling on the rule and MFL’s calendar (not changed here); #1217 waits on it.
7. Signed-out deadline card. Without an MFL sign-in the card says “Sign in to MFL to see when MFL stops trades” instead of the league calendar date. Recommend keeping.