Your Roster Now Tells You Who's Getting Cut
Over the 22-man limit? Your roster rows now wear the cut slate on their sleeves — gold AUTO-CUT badges in the exact order the deadline job will swing the axe. Mark nobody and it flags your newest pickups; mark your own and the badges flip to YOUR PICK.
The Full Story
Last month the Cutdown Plan panel promised the machine had your back at the deadline — "last players in are the first ones out." True, but abstract. A policy isn't a picture. Now it's a picture. Open your roster during the cut window and the players headed for the chopping block wear it right next to their name: a gold AUTO-CUT #1, #2, #3 badge, laid out in the exact order the automation will make the cuts.
Here's the part that matters: you don't have to mark a single player to see this. Marked nothing? The roster fills the slate with your most recent waiver and free-agent pickups and stamps each one LAST ADDED — because that's the tiebreaker the deadline job actually uses (and yes, players you traded for are safe; a deadline-week acquisition doesn't count as "just added"). Start marking your own casualties and those badges flip to YOUR PICK and jump to the front of the line. Same math, honest labels — AUTO-CUT for whoever's inside the cut line right now, MARKED for the insurance picks sitting safely below it.
A legend under the table does the accounting out loud — how many players are getting cut, and the night it happens — with a standing invitation to choose your own instead. Because the automation will happily pick for you. It's just picking by recency, not by heart. See exactly who's on the block, then go tell it who should be.
Message