The offseason is where dynasty leagues are won, so Capr gives it real structure instead of a months-long group-chat argument. The offseason runs as four ordered phases, and every team works through the same decision at the same time.
The offseason, in order
- Roster Moves: re-sign your own expiring players at their CAPR Price, transition-tag one you won't let walk, and release contracts you don't want to carry. All three in one window, in any order.
- Free Agency: every expiring player you didn't keep hits the open market, and the league bids from cap space.
- Rookie Draft: snake, linear, or a rookie auction. Picks sign rookie-scale deals the moment they're made.
- New Season: the league rolls over. Escalations apply, contracts age a year, the schedule generates, and week 1 goes live.
Roster Moves: one window, three acts
Re-signs, tags and cuts used to be three sequential phases. They spend the same cap, so the split forced a decision order the money doesn't have: you had to commit every expiring contract before you could see whether releasing someone paid for one of them. They are now a single window with a Re-sign, Tag and Cut segment, and you move between them freely. Cut, re-sign with the space it cleared, then cut again if you need to.
Two things still have an order inside the window. A player you let walk or release can't be tagged afterwards, and a transition tag has to be applied before the window closes, because the tag is what puts him on the auction block in free agency.
Why the order matters
Each phase feeds the next. Roster Moves decides who actually reaches free agency and how much cap the league brings to the bidding; free agency empties wallets right before the draft rewards the teams that kept powder dry. Skipping ahead isn't possible, and that's the point. Everyone makes the same bets with the same information.
Per-team completion tracking
Inside each phase, Capr tracks which teams have finished their business, so the whole league can see who's holding things up. When you've made your calls, mark yourself done. The phase view shows completion across all teams at a glance.
Commissioner controls
The commissioner advances phases from Offseason in the commissioner hub, on a schedule, or as soon as every team is done, and can also step a phase back. Every deal ages one year when the season ends. Start New Season, the last step, applies cap escalation and opens the new league year. In a league with paid seats, the New Season phase shows who has not covered the new season. The league can start its new season, but Week 1 does not open until every seat is covered, and covering them is on the commissioner. Until then everyone keeps control of their team; a manager whose seat lapses after Week 1 loses it.