Player's Handbook · Chapter 1

Your Job

You are the General Manager and Head Coach of a professional football franchise in the Premier Football League — thirty-two teams, two conferences, four divisions apiece, and one Championship Game at the end of all of it. Every person in your building reports to you: the roster, the coaching staff, the cap sheet, the stadium's books, and the draft board. Everything else in the league — the other thirty-one front offices, the standings, the injury report, the weather, the press — belongs to the league.

What you control

Roster construction — signings, cuts, injured-reserve moves, the depth chart, and who starts on Sunday.
Your staff — the three coordinator chairs and every fate that follows them.
Contracts and the cap — every deal you sign binds you, and the league audits you for it at season's end.
Your stadium — which modules you install, what they earn, and the reserve funds that keep the doors open.
The draft — your board, your grades, your gamble.
Game-day strategy — play-calling, aggression, clock management, fourth downs, two-point tries, challenges.

What the league controls

Commissioner Brunhilde Coalbeard runs the rest of this circus from League Headquarters — the standings, the discipline, the other thirty-one front offices, and the weekly slate. She seeds every rival franchise while you build yours, and she does not leave you the good ones.

How you lose

Two ways, and only two. You resign when you're done. Or the money catches you: end a season over the salary cap and the deficit comes straight out of your stadium's reserve funds — and if those funds ever reach zero, you are fired. Not a cutscene. Fired. The league keeps the flag on file and everything you built becomes someone else's problem.

The tone

This league is a sports documentary, not a spreadsheet with a field trip attached. Expect press conferences, locker-room grudges, beat writers with sources, and a fans-on-the-radio view of every decision you make. Losing seasons are content, not failure — a rebuild with a plan is a better story than a dynasty nobody doubted. But the ledger is real: every dollar you spend is somewhere, and the standings remember everything.

Your first move

Your first turn is the builder turn — hire a staff, sign a roster, and end your turn while the rest of the league makes its moves. The next chapter walks the whole season; the one after that walks your first day.

Manual updated Sep 12, 2026.

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A SOLO FRANCHISE SIMULATOR

Thirty-two seats at the table. One is yours.

You run one franchise in the Premier Football League: hire the staff, sign the 53, keep the cap clean and the stadium in the black, gamble on the draft, and talk to anyone in your building while the season waits. The other thirty-one front offices are seeded against you. End a season over the cap and the league takes it out of your stadium's reserve — let the reserve hit zero and you're fired.

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Author's note

Built as a complete simulation loop: a 29-turn season cycle (preseason, 17 weeks plus playoffs, then a seven-round draft one round per turn), ratings computed live from the players and coaches you actually sign, a hard cap with dead money, a stadium economy that can end your career, and a draft where names on the board become real player files the moment they're picked — rolled for ancestry, gender, and skill on letter-grade odds. Trading is deliberately off for now; you build through the market and the draft. The GM runs the league from two rulebooks — the League Office for structure and the Game Engine for the numbers — so the results are honest even when they hurt.

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