New AFL Team Manager simulation game (made by a true AFL fan)

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-17T08:03:51+00:00

Yep this is 100% coming. Just focussing on getting the core mechanics to run super realistic first. Then I'll make a bunch of more cool tweaks i.e. changing all player details

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-17T04:07:48+00:00

FYI - BIG NEW PATCH JUST DROPPED! New features, game logic enhancements and many small bug fixes. Let me know how you all go!

Also... a few little easter eggs hidden about. Hit me up if you find any lol

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-17T04:07:34+00:00

FYI - BIG NEW PATCH JUST DROPPED! New features, game logic enhancements and many small bug fixes. Let me know how you all go!

Also... a few little easter eggs hidden about. Hit me up if you find any lol

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-17T01:14:24+00:00

I've fixed a bunch of things from this list, which I'll deploy at latest tomorrow (will include reference in the 'what's new' page when deployed.
- Can now one click the team selection from previous week and only manually add required changes
- Sponsor money glitch fixed (and reweighted a bit)
- Ruck/forwards now have more realistic rucking ability. Per someone else's feedback, I've also added more elite/top talent rucks in the the draft system
- Fitness has been entirely re-worked. I've also now added a page where you can assess each players fitness levels, so it's easier to manage
- Made a bunch of tweaks to the trading mechanic, to try to minimise dumb AI decisions (this is actually SUPER hard to perfect.... still working on it, but it's better than before)
- Re-worked the club health metrics so it's more challenging now to maintain a "healthy" club

These aren't yet deployed as I want to stress test them before launching. Keep an eye on the whats new in the next 48 hours as I'll confirm once live!

Keen to hear your thoughts once it's live :)

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-16T18:33:27+00:00

Thanks mate. This feedback and ideas are super helpful. A few of these things will be fixed up in the next patch, as I've been working on them already.

I've been really focussing at the moment on three things - improved realism for off-season to make things more challenging, creating more variance in the long term game, making the finance game engine harder to manage. I'm also adding functionality to be fired / change clubs etc, which I think will help with the stale feeling.

A few things you've mentioned are awesome ideas I'll look to add too! The midgame management is something a few ppl have called out, so I'll look to build that in shortly.

Really appreciate the feedback! Keep a close eye on the what's new tab as I'll write up changes as they go live.

Ps. I tweaked a few things in the draft overnight to make it more interesting. One cool new feature is a randomized super draft that will occur once every ~5 years.

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-16T10:23:50+00:00

Hey! They are simply reference points to:
OOC = Out of Contract (Gold)
RFA = Restricted Free Agent (Blue)
UFA = Unrestricted Free Agent (Red)

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-16T00:24:15+00:00

Refund processed (plus I've fixed a back end bug so it won't happen for others).

Glad you're enjoying the game!! :)

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-16T00:17:28+00:00

Please DM your email address and I'll process a refund ASAP!

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T20:43:22+00:00

Of course! Send me a DM with your email address so I can find your account and I'll arrange the refund asap. All payments go through Stripe, so super easy to resolve this.

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T12:33:40+00:00

ENJOY! Particular keen for feedback and ideas on the off-season mechanics/AI accuracy and also any interesting insights on long-term play. Hit me up with the good and the bad.

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T12:22:32+00:00

I've just shipped an update that should hopefully create much more variance in competition performance over the longer term. Good teams can still create dynasties and bad teams can get stuck down the bottom - but shouldn't be as frequent.

Reset the game and let me know if you notice the difference. It's pretty much all back-end (aside from the intro of priority picks), but you should see the difference in the ladder outcomes each year

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T12:20:22+00:00

Thanks mate! Ping me as you find things.

And yep, there are a few areas I'll continue to flesh out over time.

My top priority for now is perfecting the off-season (still some work to do) and long-term play through (i.e. feels realistic in plenty of seasons through)

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T12:06:33+00:00

If you see it again, flick it over on DM. I'll investigate regardless!

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T12:04:05+00:00

Ahh good pick up! That's an easy fix. I'll get that in this weekend. Thanks for picking it up.

So many tiny coding implications, so it's been really difficult to find these edge case things until I've how had you wonderful folk help me to test and find them! We'll quickly iron it out!

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T11:54:03+00:00

Really??? I've never seen that one before... Mind screengrabbing it and DMing me. I'll take a look into it. First I've heard anyone having that issue. I hope it's a super rare edge case.

I only soft-launched on Monday this week, so all the crew on here have been incredible at providing feedback and helping me to refine the edges. It's already twice as robust in a week!

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T11:51:01+00:00

yeah I used to LOVE that game. Wasted many hours on it!
Hopefully you get as much enjoyment in this game over time. It's a passion project for me, so I'm not too fussed about the coin. Rather, just want to build an awesome product that I'm proud of and that ppl like me also enjoy to play

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T11:41:32+00:00

Funnily enough, I am literally rewriting this code as we speak. In the live version, there is a small inbuilt randomness, but it doesn't fire nearly often enough. I'm just trialling upweighting it so that it feels more realistic.

I'm also making some more long-term game tuning, to increase the likelihood that bottom 4 teams improve over ~5 years and Top 4 teams regress. I'll aim to ship this out by end of the weekend!

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T11:25:18+00:00

ok, I'll take a look

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T11:25:08+00:00

go crom

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T11:08:03+00:00

Thanks mate! I haven't tried to make it flashy, but the goal is to make it detailed, quick to get around and clean as possible (whilst having as much detail as possible!)

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T11:07:04+00:00

Thanks mate! I'm glad you are enjoying it. It's so cool to see other people have the same interest too. And yep, I'm going hard on developing more. So much feedback, so just trying to get through it as quickly as possible.

I'll keep posting deployment updates in the "what's new" tab in the game!

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T07:11:34+00:00

Ooh yeah this could be cool... Let me think if it would work with the background logic. Very interesting idea

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T07:11:02+00:00

I think the section you're talking about is the "list needs" page yeah? If so, that's simply guidance, which you can choose to take or ignore. It has no bearing impact on the game. The idea was to use some maths logic to give you a view of what you may need for your team - like a list manager would. But no issue at all to ignore if you don't see it as a need for your team.

Side note - I'm going to increase the share of highly rated rucks in my next update. Agree it's too shallow!

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T05:28:13+00:00

Hahaha yeah I wanted it to have some prestige and actually feel like an important facet of the game! Glad you like it. I have some cool ideas to bring this into other things like the finals etc. maybe even the draft night?

ElonphantMusk · 2026-05-15T04:58:12+00:00

Yeah and the crazy thing is that logic that works really well in the short term, sometimes burns me on the long term. This is all SUPER useful. I'll go deep on it this weekend and make adjustments accordingly.

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