The Cut List Is Now Yours to Boss Around

First, a confession from the beat desk: until this week, the Cutdown Plan panel had a split personality. You'd mark your August cuts, watch the slate update beautifully — and then saving would post your original list and reset everything, like a waiter who nods through your whole order and brings you what the last table had. That bug is dead. And so is the Save button, because the panel now saves itself about a second after you stop fiddling — the status line tells you the moment your cuts are locked in, and it means it.

With the trust rebuilt, the slate got handed over to you completely. Every row is draggable now, not just your own picks — grab one of the machine's LAST ADDED selections, drop it where you want it, and it becomes YOUR PICK at that exact spot. On your phone, a Mark button does the same job with a tap, and every marked player wears an × so you can change your mind without opening his player card.

Best of all: marking more players than the deadline needs no longer hides the overflow. Everybody renders in one ordered list, split by a red dashed CUT LINE — players above it go on deadline night, players below it are your insurance, safe unless the roster grows. The numbering runs straight across the line, arrows and drags cross it freely, and even when you're at the limit with nothing to cut, your order stays visible and waiting. The automation still swings the axe. You just fully control the order of the chopping block.