New: Modern mode. Pick All Time or Modern before a run. Modern uses five year windows from 2001 to today, and every player you see really played for that team in those seasons. Respins: one short video now adds two, up to four a run. Shorter text on the sandbox, mode and How to Play screens.

Fixed: 1.5.0 could start playing by itself the moment it opened, run through the sandbox without a single tap, and then stop responding on the final screen. That build had shipped with a test harness as its starting point — a build configuration mistake on our side, not anything on your phone. 1.5.1 starts where it should: on the home screen, waiting for you. Also fixed: resuming a saved Build a Team sandbox while Head to Head was selected silently started a season instead. Resume now says exactly what it will bring back and offers to discard it, and no sandbox screen can leave you on a blank page with no way out. Every player from before 1999 now has real career numbers. Season-by-season statistics only go back to 1999, and the career records behind them only reach 1980. For the oldest decades that left a name, a team, and nothing else on the card. Now they carry the player's real career line — Johnny Unitas at 40,239 passing yards, Paul Krause with the 81 interceptions nobody has beaten, Jerry Rice at 22,895 and 197 touchdowns. Across the 1960s, cards carrying a real figure went from 4% to 97%. The same data fixed the ratings. Jim Brown used to be offered below a team-mate who simply lasted more seasons, because longevity was the only thing the old sources could measure about him. Nine Pro Bowls and eight All-Pro selections now count for what they are. Also in this release: - Blank cards are gone. A player with nothing measured behind him is no longer offered where there is anyone better. - Coins: an optional short video on the results screen is worth 10 more, once a run. Skipping it costs you nothing. - The results banner is sized to your phone instead of a fixed 320 points.

The draft changed. A spin now deals you a team, and you decide which position on your roster it fills. SANDBOX MODE Pick anyone from any team in any decade. Two people, one phone: you each build a nine-player roster and the teams play a single game at a neutral site. Or build one team and run a full 17-game season with it. None of it counts toward your record, which is the point. COINS AND THEMES Eleven themes. Five are earned by your best season: one each at ten, twelve, fifteen and sixteen wins, and one that only exists if you go 17-0. Five more are bought with coins you earn by finishing runs. Coins count every run already in your history, so you may open the app to a balance and a theme or two waiting for you. ALSO - Redesigned around the field instead of a list of rows - Your confirmed pick now flies to its place on the formation - The field doubles as the position picker: tap where you want them - Stats Visible ranks the list best-first - A team only ever fills one position, so a finished roster spans nine franchises Your history, your best run and any run you had in progress all carry over.