Release Notes

Roster Optimizer simplified position lookup

Roster Optimizer better matching for multi-eligibility players best guessing

Games Played chips per position on Roster Optimizer Roster Summary (replaces the missing summary table that was not data-dense enough)

edge cases where goalies could push into UTIL positions

regression where teams were not in the expected order in extended recommendations section (alphabetical previously, but now sort by most games added)

Roster Optimizer and Weekly Offnights tiny device revamp (thanks Jeremy and Chris!)

Rosters with F (Forward) player slots not showing the correct calculated games available (thanks for the report, Patrick!)

Players on IR and IR+ should not automatically bench - we have an IR toggle for this feature now

Player search now clears on accept

Further style and layout fixes

FVPG and Compare/Trade pages style/layout/hierarchy improvememnts

PerDayRosterTable should show day of the week (thanks, Luke!)

Several style improvements and a11y pass for accessibility compliance

Roster Optimizer usability improvements with controls and especially on mobile

Weekly Offnights usability improvements with controls and especially on mobile

Improved FVPG page stability

Improved player search stability and performance

Weekly Offnights layout improvements

Ownership % slider has a cleaner label and no weird spacing

Roster Optimizer now properly saves new roster with name, and hides invalid operation buttons until a roster is created

Pushed back time of day where we gather external data to avoid complications and confusion with in-progress games

Better season labels.

Roster Optimizer: improved sorting of suggestions so top recommendations are more relevant

Recommendation and Roster widgets now show various Notes for players, such as IR Status, Ownership, Performance and Rank Trends

Various small style and layout improvements across the site, including 'TEL' inputs instead of number, for better mobile support.

Roster Optimizer: added an 'IR' (ignore) toggle on roster rows — ignored players are visually marked and excluded from optimizer calculations

Roster Optimizer: added multi-roster support to switch between different saved rosters easily

Roster Optimizer: better handling of unsaved changes when switching rosters or leaving the page

Roster Optimizer: improved stability when loading malformed or very old saved rosters

Roster Optimizer: vastly improve accuracy of added active games when suggesting players

Roster Optimizer: sharable rosters via clipboard

Weekly Offnights missing Utah Mammoth after the recent layout change

Weekly Offnights sort alphabetically by team name by default again (regression)

Roster Optimizer optimization algo was not scaling well. Convert to a better approach to allow for larger rosters.

A bunch of layout and style related improvements for Roster Optimizer and Weekly Offnights that should reduce CLS

screen-aware icons for crispy visuals no matter what device you're on

Banners causing layout shift on page load now reserved space to prevent shifting

Added documentation: /docs/roster-optimizer-changes — details on the Roster Optimizer update, layout, and migration notes

Fixed an issue where Roster Optimizer compact recommendations did not update after changing Ownership %

consistent 'Chip' of Active Games/Total Games on all tables in Roster Optimizer

Trade Tool style and stability improvements

Cookie banner now properly remembers user choice and does not reappear on every page load

announcement banner for Roster Optimizer changes since they are significant vs. just these releasenotes which maybe nobody reads

Refactored Roster Summary insights to reuse a single computed insights array (reduce duplication)

Aligned Insights table headers and improved layout for consistent vertical alignment

Added an information tooltip to the FVPG header explaining Forecasted Value Per Game

Compact recommendations preview added to Roster Summary (3-player compact view)

Player names in compact preview abbreviated to first initial + last name (e.g. 'J. Smith')

Compact recommendations tooltips now show games added and FVPG (formatted to 2 decimals)

Ownership % control added below Pickup Suggestions

Ownership slider snaps in 5% increments and shows visible marks

Top recommended teams are shown next to compact player suggestions

Roster Optimizer now takes order of Roster table into account when suggesting who to bench

Roster Optimizer now has a tooltip on the Drop header to explain how it works

Roster Optimizer now has a summary and a 'Most Benched' table to help identify drop candidates

Roster Optimizer now has a form to set league settings for position eligibility and slot counts

2025-2026 season games and FVPG data

Roster Optimizer order of slots on page should group forward slots like W and F.

Roster Optimizer UTIL should always be last, but W appears below it when populating

Roster Optimizer crashes with old roster data from 2024-2025 season for some users

Thanks Christopher, Eric and Tim for all the feedback and suggestions!

An additional 500 players added to the player search database

light flash on page load hurts everyone since this is a dark-theme project.

some small css/style improvements and fixes

Player Search now clears after accepting a player in RO and Compare/Trade

2025-2026 schedule and players added

API change upstream caused team names and IDs to be incorrect

API change causes non-ascii issues in names

Utah Hockey Club -> Utah Mammoth

cron Schedule is ignoring args.season

20242025 season games are incorrect due to bad args.seasons bug

NAN on compare/trade page with no game data

crash on compare/trade page with 24/25 game data

incomplete FVPG data 24/25

some additional pre-deployment tests