THE DYNASTY PLATFORM BUILT FOR ADVANCED TACTICS. DEPLOY A FULL ARSENAL THROUGH CAP, CONTRACTS, A REAL OFFSEASON AND MORE.
Phase-based features driven by time of year, fair-value-driven contracts, mechanics and levers built to mimic being a real life GM and a commissioner toolkit that can actually fix anything. From startup auction to the postseason and lottery, the battle never stops in the Dynasty War Room.
START OR JOIN A LEAGUE.
Three ways into Dynasty War Room: start a league with people you know, open seats to random matchmaking, or join an existing league looking for an owner. Commissioners control exactly how open or closed their league is.
Create a League
You're the commissioner. You decide who gets in and how.
- Invite only your friends. Private league, email invites or a join code. No random matchmaking unless you turn it on.
- Open some seats to matchmaking. Mix friends with random players. Pick exactly which slots are open — the rest stay reserved.
- Open every seat. Drop your league into the public matchmaking pool to fill all slots with whoever's looking.
- Per-slot control. Open seats are configured one at a time, so you can mix any combination of friends and randoms.
Join a League
Looking for a league? Two paths in.
- Accept a private invite. A friend or commissioner sends an email invite or join code. You land directly on their team.
- Get matched into an open league. Browse leagues with open seats, or drop into the matchmaking pool and get auto-assigned to the next fit.
// Need a mid-season replacement owner? Commissioners handle that from Settings → Teams.
PHASE BY PHASE.
A dynasty league isn't 17 weeks of football and then nothing. It's an 8-phase cycle that runs all year. Dynasty War Room shows your owners only the tools they need for the phase they're in — no clutter, no hunting through dropdowns, no 'wait, when do we do that?'
SETUP
- WHAT
- Pre-season league configuration.
- WHAT'S OPEN
- Team setup, scoring rules, cap & contract structure.
- WHY IT MATTERS
- Locks in the rulebook so nothing surprises owners mid-season.
STARTUP
- WHAT
- Inaugural roster build — snake draft or auction.
- WHAT'S OPEN
- Live draft board, fair values, cap projection.
- WHY IT MATTERS
- Sets the foundation. Every owner starts at zero.
REGULAR SEASON
- WHAT
- Weeks 1 through the playoff cut.
- WHAT'S OPEN
- Matchups, weekly FAAB waivers (Wed 00:00), trades, live scoring.
- WHY IT MATTERS
- The 14-ish weeks of football your league is built around.
PLAYOFFS
- WHAT
- Single-elimination bracket plus consolation.
- WHAT'S OPEN
- Matchup, bracket viz. Trade window closes for competitive integrity.
- WHY IT MATTERS
- Lottery seeding takes shape.
OFFSEASON
- WHAT
- Post-Super Bowl breathing room.
- WHAT'S OPEN
- Trades reopen, fair values refresh nightly, planning starts.
- WHY IT MATTERS
- The setup window for the most important decisions of the year.
CUTS & EXTENSIONS
- WHAT
- The roster-crunch window. The centerpiece of the platform.
- WHAT'S OPEN
- Cut / extend / release / RFA decision forms with live cap impact.
- WHY IT MATTERS
- Dynasty's defining moment — who do you keep, who do you cut, what's the dead cap?
ROOKIE DRAFT
- WHAT
- The annual rookie draft, lottery-seeded.
- WHAT'S OPEN
- Live draft board, rookie salary scale auto-applied.
- WHY IT MATTERS
- Fresh talent injection — the lifeblood of dynasty.
FA AUCTION
- WHAT
- Annual free-agent auction post-cuts.
- WHAT'S OPEN
- Auction board, live cap projection, fair-value reference.
- WHY IT MATTERS
- Where cap-savvy GMs separate from cap-poor ones.
EIGHT TABS. EVERYTHING YOU NEED.
Each tab shows you exactly what's relevant for the phase you're in — and hides what isn't. Here's everything behind every tab.
Matchup
Your live weekly scoreboard — every matchup, live scores, and standings shifting in real time.
Live Scoreboard
- ▸All matchups side-by-side with live scores and projected remaining points.
- ▸Auto-updates as our stat poller ingests NFL play-by-play. No refresh required.
Matchup Detail
- ▸Live scoring + projected remaining points.
- ▸Both lineups slot-by-slot with each player's live score, opponent, and game status.
- ▸Bench points + what-if optimal lineup.
COMMISSIONER TOOLS THAT ACTUALLY WORK.
Anything that goes wrong in a real league, the commissioner can fix from within the app — no spreadsheets, no DM threads, no 'let me check with the platform.' We built the commissioner toolkit assuming things will go wrong, because they always do.
Edit any team's lineup — past, present, or future
Owners forget to set lineups, leave injured players in, claim their phone died. Commissioners can edit any team's lineup for any week. Past-week edits trigger automatic rescore and update standings. Every edit is logged.
Add or drop players retroactively
Undo a phantom drop, correct a missed waiver, compensate for a broken sync. Commissioners can add or drop any player on any roster for any week, with cap impact applied retroactively.
Rewrite any contract
Mistakes happen in cuts, extensions, and trades. Rewrite any contract — salary, length, vet/rookie, G/UG — on any roster for any year. Every change is logged and the cap recalculates automatically.
Force-execute (or originate) any trade
When a trade was agreed in chat but one owner is AWOL, push it through. Originate trades on behalf of teams to resolve a stalemate or fix a botched trade after the fact.
EVERYTHING ELSE A COMMISSIONER CAN DO.
ROSTER / LINEUP
- ·Lock or unlock a team's lineup for a specific week
- ·Restore an accidentally dropped player
- ·Bulk roster reset for an abandoned team
- ·Reassign a player team-to-team (collusion remediation)
CAP / CONTRACTS
- ·Edit FAAB balance for any team
- ·Forgive or apply dead cap outside the normal cut flow
- ·Bulk auto-extend (great for league imports)
TRADES / WAIVERS
- ·Reverse a completed trade (with full cap unwind)
- ·Reverse a winning waiver claim (return player + refund FAAB)
- ·Manually run a waiver cycle off-schedule
- ·Adjust waiver priority order
MATCHUPS / SCORING
- ·Manually override a matchup score
- ·Rerun scoring for a past week after a setting fix
- ·Award a forfeit win
LEAGUE STATE
- ·Roll back a phase (advanced by mistake)
- ·Pause the league (freeze actions during disputes)
- ·Send a league-wide announcement (in-app + email + push)
- ·View as another team (read-only impersonation)
DRAFT
- ·Edit completed picks
- ·Reset the draft (full or partial)
- ·Manually trigger pick on behalf of AFK owner
- ·Reseed / re-run lottery
OWNERSHIP TRANSITIONS
- ·Force-remove an owner
- ·Reassign a team mid-season (roster + history preserved)
- ·Replace an owner with a placeholder 'CPU' until replacement joins
AUDIT / SAFETY NET
- ·Per-team activity log
- ·Undo last commissioner action (fat-finger protection)
FEATURES ARE NEVER SETTLED
Dynasty War Room is built on feedback from actual commissioners. Every idea goes through an intake system — if it is viable, it gets evaluated and put to a vote by the userbase. What ships is decided by the leagues that use it.