No. Discord is your SIGN-IN and nothing else — it is the account the site uses to know who you are. Everything the league does runs here and on your phone: claiming a team, game times, the ping, trades, box scores, the sportsbook, game? in a 2K league. Turn on notifications (your name → Settings → Notifications) and your phone hears everything the bot would have said. The bot is optional: a league that links it gets the same cards and calls inside its server for the people who like Discord, and a league that never does misses nothing. If you can do it with a slash command, you can do it here with a button.

TEAMS → The Trade Block. Shelving a player tells the league you'll listen — it doesn't commit you to anything. Pick a player, write what you want back ("a 2nd and a young WR"), and set how badly you want him gone. The block does the reading for you too: FITS YOUR NEEDS shows only the listed players at positions where you're below league average AND who'd actually start over the guy you have there now. Listings come down BY THEMSELVES the moment a player changes teams, so the block never fills up with guys who were traded weeks ago.

The blue 💬 button in the bottom-right corner, on every page. Tap it to open, tap the − to tuck it away — it remembers which way you left it. Paste a GIF, a Twitch or YouTube clip, or drag a video straight out of Discord and it plays right in the room. Want it as a window you can drag anywhere instead? Settings → League chat → Floating. Want it gone? Set it to Off.

LEAGUE → My Settings, or your name in the top-right. Turn the scrolling wire and other motion off, move the chat or hide it, switch tables to compact, and choose where the crest takes you. Settings follow your Discord account, so setting them on your laptop also sets them on your phone.

MY TEAM → post a clip, or drop a link in league chat. YouTube, Twitch (clips and VODs), Streamable and Medal play inline. The easiest one: right-click a video in your Discord server, copy the link, and paste it — it plays on the site with no upload and no account anywhere. GIFs work everywhere links do.

Settings → Leaving the league. Say why and your team opens back up right away. This matters: commissioners can see how many leagues you're in and how your last exits went, and leaving properly reads completely differently from disappearing. Admins can tag members too — good tags stay forever, bad ones EXPIRE on a clock (90 days for slow play, a year for nuking a roster), because one bad month shouldn't follow anybody around. Nothing is ever automatic: repeat serious tags across leagues just open a case a person actually reads.

TEAMS → 🔎 Find a Player. Type a name, or use the dropdowns to narrow by POSITION, by TEAM (every franchise plus Free Agent), or by dev trait — and tick Rookies only for this year's class. Sort by overall, youngest or name. In Discord the same search is /ps, which takes a name, a position (WR, LB) or a team (Lions, DET) in one box and works it out. Note /player and /players are different — those browse the FANTASY DRAFT POOL, not your Madden league.

LEAGUE → League Directory lists every league on SapphireSportz that's recruiting, with platform, style, how often they advance and how many spots are open. Commissioners turn their own listing on under Admin → Members & Reputation — keep it honest and switch it off when you're full.

Type /link in Discord with your team's name (e.g. /link team: Browns), or open MY TEAM on the site and tap your team in the claim grid. That connects your Discord account to your franchise — trades, scheduling, and the advisor all unlock. Picked wrong? An admin can reassign you from the Admin Center.

You have two pools of money: CASH (spending money — bets, casino, store) and the BANK (the vault). If a bet says you're short, your money is probably in the bank — go to ECONOMY, type an amount (500k, 2m, all, half) and tap Withdraw. Moves are applied by the bot within ~2 minutes, and betting always checks your REAL balance, so don't panic if a number on screen looks a minute stale.

FANTASY → The Book. Game cards carry the MONEY LINE (pick who wins), the SPREAD (pick a team to cover) and the TOTAL (over/under combined points); player cards are MORE/LESS on a stat. Tap one pick for a straight bet or two to six for a parlay, open the bet slip at the bottom, enter your stake, and Lock it in. Each ticket then pins to the top of The Book so you can track every leg, and you can lock as many as you like.

Every time you lock in you get a new ticket — one leg is a straight bet, two to six a parlay — and you can hold as many as your cash covers. Adding a ticket never costs a fee. Cancelling one gives back your stake minus the cancel fee (a quarter, or half once one of its games is being played) and leaves your other tickets alone. A ticket with a leg already graded can't be cancelled.

The FEATURES page — /features, or ✨ Everything it does in the league menu. Every section of the site with a line on what it is for, plus WHAT'S NEW, which is the plain-English list of what changed and when. A release marked MAJOR raises a bar at the top of the site once, and only once. It also has the app-updating steps for iPhone and Android — pages always come fresh off the server, so the only thing that can lag is the app's own scripts, and one full close-and-reopen fixes it. On iPhone that means swiping the card away in the app switcher, not just pressing the side button.

ADMIN → Start a new franchise file. For when you are abandoning a Madden league and pointing the Companion App at a different one — somebody gutted a roster, the file went wrong, the season died. It empties the FOOTBALL (rosters, stats, standings, schedules) and KEEPS YOUR PEOPLE: members, the commissioner, the Discord connection, your broadcasters and the league itself. Madden's team numbers are the game's own and do not change between files, so if you keep the seats, everybody is still on the same team the moment your first new export lands. You choose what else survives — the seats, the money and ladder, the old recaps and records. Open bets are refunded before anything is cleared, which is not a choice. Commissioner only, and there is no undo.

ADMIN → Trades done in the game. Your Companion export carries rosters, so a player who changed hands in Madden is ALREADY on his new team here and you need not tell us. What it does not carry, at all, is who owns a future DRAFT PICK — so a deal done inside the game leaves the site thinking you still hold a first you traded away. Write those down on that page and the pick board, the trade builder and every value follow along. It writes a real, approved trade into the same log, labelled as having been done in the game, so nothing keeps a second set of books. Trades made through the site already count and are not touched.

THE BOOK → The Exchange. Season-long markets on who wins MVP and who lifts the Super Bowl, plus a priced single bet on every prop. A price IS a chance — 34¢ means the room thinks 34% — and one share pays ONE COIN if it comes in, so 34,000 at 34¢ becomes 100,000 if you are right. Every bet MOVES THE LINE, and a big one moves it while you are still buying, so you get a worse average than the price on the button; that is the market, not a fee. You can SELL any time before it settles and take whatever the line is then. The opening price comes from the site's own MVP board and ratings; every number after that is somebody's money. The house keeps 4¢ on the dollar when you buy and nothing when you sell, and nothing pays more than 40×. Parlays and Flex are still on The Book, at each leg's own odds.

ECONOMY → The Casino. Sapphire Spins (💎💎💎 pays 25×), Roulette (numbers 35:1, colors 1:1, dozens 2:1), and full Blackjack (hit/stand/double, blackjack pays 3:2). You play with cash; stakes flow into the World Bank and wins flow back out, settled by the bot within ~2 minutes. In debt? Tables are closed until you work it off.

The bottom of the Casino page. WORK always pays ($50k–$200k, 15-min cooldown). CRIME pays $250k–$1M but fails 40% of the time with a fine. HIGH ROLL pays up to $2M with slightly worse odds. Cooldowns are shared with Discord — no double-dipping between the site and the bot.

FANTASY → Item Store. Tap Buy on any item — it checks your real cash, stock, and per-person limits, then lands in your inventory. Purchases go through the bot within ~2 minutes. Your items show on your Fantasy Squad page and the Economy page.

FANTASY → My Squad. Pick a player for each slot from the dropdowns and tap Save lineup. Same rules as Discord: players whose games already played are locked. Changes apply within ~2 minutes.

MY TEAM → MY GAME. Tap the day/time squares you can play; your opponent's squares overlay yours and overlaps turn green ✓. Type a kickoff (like 'Tue 8:30 PM') and Propose — when your opponent confirms, it's locked, shown on the schedule and ticker, and announced in Discord. Admins can set times directly.

TEAMS → Trade Center to build an offer (the calculator prices every player and pick — deals within the fairness band say FAIR). The other owner accepts, then it's approved by the commish or by league vote, depending on your league's setting. The Front Office Advisor on MY TEAM suggests fair deals that fill both teams' needs.

ECONOMY → The Ladder. You earn XP from real wins, fantasy wins, sharp betting, and being active (posts, votes, scheduling, casino). At level 20 you can PRESTIGE — your level resets, you keep a permanent ⭐, and deep analysis unlocks (the Prestige Edge on props, fit intel on draft boards). Admins can award bonus XP for community challenges.

MY TEAM → POST TO THE LEAGUE. Drop a clip link (YouTube and Twitch play right on the site), a recap, or a status. Posts land on the League Wire and your team page; everyone can comment with GIFs and links.

Photos come from EA's official ratings database. Admins: Admin Center → PLAYER PHOTOS → one button fetches every missing face (rookies included). A few players EA doesn't publish will stay blank — the panel lists exactly who.

STATS → League Records. Single-game and single-season marks write themselves from every export, team records too. RECORD WATCH flags anyone on pace to break a season record this year.

On your phone, open the site in your browser → Share → Add to Home Screen. You get a full-screen app with the league crest icon. Everything works the same, just faster to reach.

Tap 🧭 Tour in the top bar on any page for a step-by-step spotlight walkthrough of that page. It's built for people who don't live on websites — big text, one thing at a time.

LEAGUE → 🎙️ The Booth. Your league has a cast of writers, and every game that goes final gets handed to one of them — never the same one twice in a row. They have habits: the numbers guy builds the story round efficiency, the shouter thinks every game is the biggest of the year, and the analyst stops and explains what a rating actually means. They only ever write from the box score your league uploaded — none of them can quote anybody or report anything that did not happen. Admins hire, retire and rewrite the cast under ADMIN → The Booth, and can hear any of them call last game before keeping them.

STATS → 🏆 The MVP Race, or /mvp in Discord. Not a stat leaderboard: production is scored with touchdowns and turnovers carrying real weight and yardage almost none, then the bar for a starter at that position — measured in YOUR league — comes off the top, which is why the board is not just quarterbacks. His team's rating nudges it by a quarter at most, so a great player on a bad team still makes it. The price is his share of the field written the way a board would write it. It is a MODEL PRICE, not a market: nothing is wagered, no coins move, and it only moves when the games do. Before three weeks of games it prices nobody at all.

LEAGUE → 🎖️ Achievements, or /achievements in Discord. Badges for what people have actually done — running a team, winning games, beating the prop board, being the one who schedules the kickoffs. You never claim one: every badge is a question asked of what the league has already recorded, so one you earned last season is yours the first time anybody opens the page. The percentage beside each badge is how much of YOUR league holds it, counted right now. Only the uncommon unlocks get announced in Discord.

LEAGUE → 🗳️ League Polls, or /polls in Discord to vote right in the chat. One vote each, and you can change your mind while the poll is open. You cannot see the counts on an open poll until you have voted — seeing the board first is how a vote turns into a bandwagon. When a commissioner closes one the final count posts to Discord and stays on the page for good, so "what did we decide about that" has an answer somewhere other than somebody's memory. A tie is reported as a tie.

LEAGUE → 🎡 The Daily Spin, or /spin in Discord. One free spin a day for being in the league. NOTHING IS STAKED — you cannot bet on it, cannot buy another go, and cannot spend anything to change the odds; the Casino is where you wager and this is not that. Every prize shows its real chance beside it, printed from the same list the spin reads. Coins land in Discord within a couple of minutes, XP goes straight onto the ladder, and sometimes you get nothing, which is what makes the jackpot worth anything.

LEAGUE → 🙋 Roll Call, then 💬 Message beside anybody's name — or ✉️ Messages from your account menu. You can only message people from leagues you share, and blocking somebody stops it in both directions.

LEAGUE → 📰 Newsroom. Longer than a wire post: signings, press conferences, feuds, outright lies. Anybody in the league can write one, add an image or a clip, and push it to Discord at the same time so people actually see it. Unlike Discord scrollback, it survives.

LEAGUE → 🩹 Injury Report. Everybody currently hurt, how long they are out, and who is due back. It reads straight from the export. If somebody is listed who is actually fine, an admin can clear them and the correction applies everywhere at once — his player card, the trade block and his trade value included.

LEAGUE → Playoff Picture. Who is in, who is out, and who is on the bubble, with the seeding as it stands. Once the bracket exists it draws itself from the schedule.

STATS → 📈 Progression. Who gained and who lost rating between exports, league-wide, and every attribute change on a player's own card. It is how you tell a real breakout from a hot fortnight.

STATS → Compare Players. Two players side by side — ratings, production, trade value and age. The fastest way to settle whether a trade is close before you build it in the Trade Center.

LEAGUE → 🏈 RedZone. Everything the league clipped this week in one place. Post yours from MY TEAM or by dropping a link in league chat, and it lands here too.

TEAMS → Transactions. Every signing, release and move the export has shown, newest first. If somebody swears a player was always on their roster, this is the page that settles it.

Data comes from the Madden Companion App — export to your league's URL (LEAGUE → Sync has it) and the site ingests everything: rosters, stats, schedules, standings. The Discord bot then mirrors fantasy + economy both ways. Admin Center → PUSH HEALTH shows the last export and pushes at a glance.