How to play · Rules & bylaws
Run your team like a real front office.
Front Office Fantasy Sports is a dynasty fantasy baseball platform built around roster construction, contracts, salaries, prospects, trades and long-term franchise management. Instead of drafting a new team every season, you take control of a franchise and make decisions that affect your team for years.
You're not just setting a lineup. You're building a franchise.
Traditional fantasy baseball asks, "Who should I start today?" Front Office adds another question: "What does this move mean for my franchise next year?" Build your roster. Manage your payroll. Develop your farm system. Make the trades. Chase the championship. Then do it again next year — with the franchise you built.
Build your 40-man organization
Each franchise manages up to 40 players:
- 26 Major League roster spots
- 14 Minor League roster spots
- Injured List spots for players on the real MLB IL, freeing up active and bench space
Active lineup — Hitters: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, 3 OF, DH. Pitchers: 5 SP, 5 RP. Bench: remaining Major League players.
Prospects develop in your minor-league system until you're ready to promote them. Two-way players occupy one roster spot with one contract and salary, while remaining eligible for both hitting and pitching lineup positions.
If a team goes over the roster limit, lineup moves are locked until the roster is cut back into compliance.
Manage a $500 payroll
Every franchise operates under a $500 salary cap. That money isn't just used on draft day — your payroll follows you all season and affects:
- Free-agent acquisitions
- Trades
- Contract decisions
- Salary retention
- Player cuts
Spend aggressively on stars, spread payroll across a deep roster, or keep flexibility for future moves. How you allocate your $500 is part of the strategy.
Build your team through a live auction
Instead of a snake draft, players are acquired through an auction. Managers take turns nominating players while every team can bid.
Each nomination starts a 30-second clock. A bid in the final 10 seconds resets the clock to 10, giving everyone a chance to respond. When the clock hits zero, the highest bidder wins the player — and that salary becomes part of his contract with your franchise.
Sign free agents throughout the season
Missed someone in the draft? A breakout player suddenly available? Free agents are acquired through rolling 48-hour auctions.
Place a bid and other managers can respond. The winning team adds the player at the winning salary — an open market, not a race to click "Add" first.
Contracts make every decision matter
Players aren't kept forever at their original price. When acquiring a player, you'll set a contract length that affects both his current cost and long-term value.
Players entering the final year of their contract can receive extensions, with longer commitments requiring increasingly expensive raises. A young star on a favorable contract can become one of the most valuable assets in your league. An expensive contract that doesn't work out? That's a decision too.
Cutting players has consequences
You can release a player, but contracts don't simply disappear. When a player is cut, 50% of his salary, rounded up, stays against your cap for the rest of the season.
A $21 player, for example, leaves an $11 cap charge after being released.
Trade like a general manager
Trades can involve more than Player A for Player B:
- Players
- Amateur draft picks
- Salary retention
Need to move an expensive player? Retain some salary to make the deal work. Rebuilding? Trade current production for prospects and draft capital. Winning now? Use future assets to land established talent.
Accepted trades go to a 24-hour league review window. If two-thirds of the league votes to veto, the deal is cancelled.
Draft the next generation
Each offseason includes an Amateur Draft where franchises acquire incoming prospects. Picks carry predetermined salaries and multi-year rookie contracts based on draft position — early selections bring more value, and more cost.
Draft picks can be traded, turning future selections into another form of franchise currency. Successful teams won't just identify today's stars — they'll find tomorrow's.
The offseason matters
The season doesn't end with the final MLB game. The offseason is when your biggest front-office decisions happen: evaluating contracts, signing extensions, preparing for the amateur draft, making trades and positioning your payroll.
Expiring players enter the market during the Raid Window and Winter Meetings, where managers vote and bid blind — and the original club holds matching rights.
There is no annual reset. The franchise you build today is the franchise you'll manage tomorrow.
Choose how your league measures success
Leagues use 8-category Rotisserie scoring — four hitting and four pitching categories:
- Classic 4×4 — R, HR, OBP, SLG · K, ERA, WHIP, HR/9
- Advanced 4×4 — R, OBP, ISO, Net SB · QS, FIP, K−BB%, SV+HLD
- Custom 4×4 — commissioners pick the categories that fit their league
Teams earn points by their rank in each category; the highest total wins. Rate stats are calculated to 4 decimal places to break close races cleanly.