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GRIDIRON 2000 · DYNASTY · REGULAR SEASON
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Identity, admission, and membership
Separate person, sign-in, league admission, and team association.
Open topic →Teams, team seats, and rosters
A team is the durable football object; a team seat is the responsibility shared by its managers.
Open topic →Roles: primary manager, co-manager, and commissioner
Roles are separate authorization axes; commissioner capability is an overlay.
Open topic →Draft and Big Board
Draft order, readiness, and clock
The scheduled meeting is not an automatic start; the commissioner intentionally opens pick one.
Open topic →Big Board and autopick
Rank private draft targets for the shared team seat and understand exactly which order AUTO consumes.
Open topic →Practice draft
See what a live draft looks like before the real one: take picks on the clock in a copy of the draft room; nothing you do there is saved.
Open topic →Team, roster, and lineup
Lineups, locks, matchups, and scoring
Set the effective lineup before kickoff and read starter-only projections, AWAITING RELEASE, and final scoring honestly.
Open topic →Players, free agents, and waivers
Players, free agents, and waivers
Acquire an eligible player using this league's own configured claim rule — priority order or FAAB bid — and preserve filter context.
Open topic →Trades
Trades, review, and processing
Compose, respond to, and track a trade without guessing its boundary.
Open topic →Matchups and scoring
Pick'em and Blitz
Pick'em
Choose against the displayed market line with per-game locks and an independent W-L record.
Open topic →Preseason Blitz
A bounded preseason side contest with its own slate, entries, locks, scoring, and archive state.
Open topic →League, activity, and data state
Activity and Commissioner Notes
Distinguish manager actions, processor results, commissioner rulings, and notification receipts.
Open topic →Data state and freshness
Read LIVE, CACHED, STALE, DEGRADED, OFFLINE, UNAVAILABLE, and AWAITING RELEASE without treating unknown as zero.
Open topic →Commissioner operations
Commissioner operations
Run a league intentionally: admission, setup, draft control, weekly processing, playoff truth, recovery, and isolated HQ.
Open topic →Glossary and concept transition
Concept transition from another fantasy platform
Translate football questions into Gridiron's concepts without promising identical provider behavior.
Open topic →Gridiron glossary
Canonical product terms come first; incoming aliases remain searchable but do not override runtime meaning.
Open topic →The checklist follows the person.
Base admitted-member guidance composes with primary, co-manager, seatless, and commissioner-overlay predicates. Unsupported capabilities are not dead obligations.
Start with league access
Sign in and complete league admission to see the checklist for your current role.
Big Board truth: one private ordered board belongs to each team seat. The primary manager and co-manager use the same order, and AUTO consumes it before best available. A commissioner who is not a member of that seat sees only seat-level readiness, presence, and board gap/count.
Bring the questions, verify the rules.
There is no automatic account, roster, history, or password migration. Map concepts, then confirm the new runtime.
Gridiron conceptIncoming aliasMaterial difference + next action
identity and admissionaccount, invite, league accessAdmission and team association are separate; an old login does not transfer. Next: Use the current login result or ask the commissioner to correct admission.
team and team seatfranchise, club, owner slotA seat may be shared by primary/co-manager; commissioner capability is orthogonal. Next: Open Team and read persisted association before claiming.
roster and lineupfantasy roster, starters, benchEach slot locks from kickoff; final weeks pin effective starters. Next: Use Team and read lock label.
Big Boarddraft queue, draft board, rankingsThe primary manager and co-manager share the seat board; a commissioner who is not a member of that seat sees only gap/count signals. Next: Build the team-seat board and verify Draft copy.
free agent and waiver claimpickup, waiver wire, claimA true free agent may add immediately; others follow displayed process. Next: Use Players and preserve filter.
FAAB unitswaiver budget, bid units, blind biddingFAAB is not currency; spending, ties, and visibility are league rules. Next: Read the configured non-currency label in Players.
trade reviewtrade veto, league vote, trade deskDeadlines, locks, review, veto, and processing are independent settings. Next: Use Trades and read offer state.
scoring and matchupfantasy points, standings, scoreProvisional/stale/degraded/final/corrected are explicit; unknown is not zero. Next: Read Scoring and Matchups.
playoff bracket and truthESPN playoffs, Yahoo playoff bracket, Sleeper playoffs, NFL fantasy playoffs, postseason bracketGridiron requires commissioner preview before publication and advances only from the final authoritative starter ledger; provider dates and tie rules do not transfer automatically. Next: Open Matchups for published truth or the commissioner Playoff Truth panel for preview/advance/recovery.
Privacy, consequence, and runtime-source details are available on the full concept-transition topic.
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Aliases are searchable; canonical terms carry the product meaning.
person
This is you, the person using the app. The human using Gridiron.
Topic →identity
This is the signed-in account behind your actions. The authenticated account representing a person.
Topic →admission
This is whether the league lets your account in. The policy decision granting a signed-in identity league access.
Topic →membership
This is your saved place in the league, even before you have a team. The persisted league relationship after admission; it may be seatless.
Topic →team
This is one manager's fantasy team. The durable football object owning a roster.
Also searched as: franchise, clubTopic →team association
The link between an admitted identity and a team.
Topic →team seat
This is the job of running one team's roster. Team-scoped responsibility for managing a roster.
Also searched as: seatTopic →primary manager
The primary role associated with a team seat.
Also searched as: ownerTopic →co-manager
An optional second manager sharing a team seat under configured permissions.
Topic →commissioner
This is the person who runs the league's settings and rules. A person with an orthogonal league-operations capability.
Topic →commissioner capability
Authorization for league operations; it does not substitute for membership/team.
Topic →roster
This is the full list of players on your team. Players assigned to a team's configured slots/zones.
Topic →lineup
This is the players you start this week. The effective starter/bench arrangement for a week.
Topic →lineup slot
A configured position or zone holding a player.
Topic →lineup lock
The kickoff/state boundary preventing normal slot edits.
Topic →matchup
This is your team's game against another team this week. A schedule-backed comparison of two teams for a week.
Topic →schedule
Runtime game/week calendar supplying kickoffs and timing.
Topic →projection
This is a guess at a player's points, not a final score. A non-authoritative estimate, never a final score.
Topic →provisional score
A score calculated before finalization.
Topic →final score
A score pinned by finalization/close processing.
Topic →stat correction
A later authoritative change to a published stat/result.
Topic →playoff truth
This is the one official playoff bracket every manager sees. The one persisted bracket projection shared by member and commissioner surfaces.
Topic →playoff preview
A commissioner-only bracket candidate; preview is not publication.
Topic →bye
This is a bracket slot that skips a game because no opponent is left. A bracket slot that advances its seeded team without an opponent score.
Topic →bracket provenance
The final-standings snapshot, source state, capture time, and tie-break order behind a bracket.
Topic →authoritative ledger
A complete final starter-scoring ledger accepted as the source for weekly advancement.
Topic →confirmed correction
An audited commissioner correction at an allowed terminal boundary.
Topic →roster correction
This is the commissioner fixing a team's roster on its own behalf, for example a bad autopick. It applies immediately, with a required reason and a review step, and shows in the team's audit trail and one-time notice.
Topic →player pool
This is every player the league can draft or add. Source-backed players available to the league.
Topic →player
A canonical football participant in the pool.
Topic →free agent
An eligible unrostered player who can be signed immediately until their own game kicks off, even while other teams are playing. Once their game starts, they stay on waivers until the week's games finish and the next daily waiver run; a recent drop can extend that hold.
Topic →waiver
This is a short wait before you can add a dropped or free player. The delayed acquisition process for an ineligible-immediate player.
Topic →claim
This is your request to add a player who is on waivers. A submitted request for a waiver player.
Topic →claim priority
The runtime ordering rule resolving claims.
Topic →FAAB units
FAAB stands for Free Agent Acquisition Budget: play money you bid to win a waiver claim. Non-currency units used by a configured claim processor.
Also searched as: waiver budget, bid unitsTopic →Big Board
This is your team's private ranked player list. One durable order belongs to the team seat, so the primary manager and co-manager use the same board; AUTO reads that order first.
Also searched as: draft board, queueTopic →Ready
A persisted manager signal that never starts the draft.
Topic →draft order
This is the set order teams pick in. The configured sequence of team picks.
Topic →on the clock
This is the team that must pick right now. The current persisted team eligible to select.
Topic →pick
This is one player your team drafted, in order. One persisted draft selection with team/player/order.
Topic →autopick
This is the app picking for your team from its shared seat board, or the best player left. AUTO selects the seat board's first available target, then best available.
Topic →trade
This is an offer to swap players with another team. A proposed exchange between team seats.
Topic →counter
A replacement trade proposal responding to an offer.
Topic →review
Configured period/authority evaluating an accepted trade.
Topic →veto
This is the league blocking a trade during review. Configured review outcome rejecting a trade.
Topic →activity
This is the running log of what happened in the league. Persisted event history for manager, processor, commissioner, and correction actions.
Topic →audit
Evidence trail explaining a consequential change.
Topic →Commissioner Note
Operator explanation attached to a decision; it does not replace runtime state.
Topic →Players
Route showing pool, free agents, waivers, and claims.
Topic →Signal Wire
Provisional mixed-source signals that never mutate fantasy scores.
Topic →Pick'em
Independent against-the-spread game with per-game locks and W-L; a tie against the spread is a loss.
Topic →Preseason Blitz
Bounded preseason side contest with its own slate and locks.
Topic →league mode
Configured format label such as dynasty or redraft.
Topic →normalized phase
Canonical lifecycle token such as pre-draft or regular-season.
Topic →feature capability
Runtime-supported, unsupported, or temporarily unavailable workflow status.
Topic →runtime source
Executable config/state/auth/processor/feed owning a value.
Topic →live
This means the data is fresh and current right now. A fresh successful source or active workflow state; read its adjacent context.
Topic →loading
A read or action is still in progress; do not duplicate a mutation.
Topic →empty
This means there is nothing here yet, and that is normal. A valid collection contains zero items.
Topic →no-results
The current query/filter matches nothing; the collection may still contain records.
Also searched as: no resultsTopic →pending
Work awaits a deadline, review, or processor.
Topic →locked
This means a rule or deadline stops you from changing it. A time, rule, or final boundary prevents ordinary change.
Topic →disabled
A role, prerequisite, or capability prevents the action.
Topic →stale
This means the data is old and due for a refresh. A last-good snapshot is beyond its freshness window.
Topic →degraded
A source or partial read failed while last-good data remains.
Topic →offline
The source is knowingly offline or a fallback is serving.
Topic →unavailable
No reliable value exists for the requested scope.
Topic →failed
An attempted read or action failed and its effect must be stated.
Topic →permission-denied
The current identity lacks authorization.
Also searched as: permission deniedTopic →not-applicable
Mode, phase, role, or capability makes the topic irrelevant.
Also searched as: not applicableTopic →ADP
This is where the wider fantasy market usually drafts a player. ADP (average draft position) ranks players by that market consensus, not by this league's own points.
Also searched as: average draft positionTopic →snake draft
This is a draft order that reverses every round, so the last pick in round 1 picks first in round 2. It gives every team one early pick and one late pick per two rounds, instead of the same team always picking last.
Also searched as: snakeTopic →FLEX
This is a lineup slot that takes a player from more than one position, most often RB, WR, or TE. It gives a manager one extra flexible starter beyond the position-locked slots.
Topic →SUPERFLEX
This is a FLEX slot that also accepts a QB, not only RB, WR, or TE. A league with a SUPERFLEX slot usually values quarterbacks much higher than a league without one.
Also searched as: super flexTopic →PF
This is the total points your team has scored all season. PF (points for) is the running season total; a single week's matchup score is separate.
Also searched as: points forTopic →IR
This is a roster spot for an injured player that does not use a normal bench slot. Placing a player on IR (injured reserve) frees a bench spot while that designation still qualifies.
Also searched as: injured reserveTopic →Every state explains the way back.
Loading, empty, no-results, pending, saved, locked, disabled, stale, degraded, offline, unavailable, failed, permission-denied, and not-applicable each have a reason, impact, remaining capability, preserved context, next action, retry rule, and topic link.
Keep the last good read
Show source and last-success age. Preserve unaffected content. Unknown is not zero and a cached snapshot is not live.
Data-state topic →Name the boundary
Explain the role, prerequisite, kickoff, review, or final-state boundary and link to the adjacent valid action.
Workflow topic →Do not replay blindly
If transport leaves the outcome unknown, refresh/reread the owning route and activity before retrying; preserve safe return context or escalate to the owner.
Recovery topic →