Appearance
Glossary
These are the terms FTG Baseball shows on its screens, in A to Z order, with the screen where you meet each one.
| Term | Plain meaning | Where you see it |
|---|---|---|
| 2B | Doubles. | Leaders |
| 3B | Triples. | Leaders |
| AAA | On a depth chart position card, the farm option for that spot. | Depth chart |
| AB | At-bats. Rate stats on the Leaders board need a minimum number of them. | Leaders |
| Active | The players who can play in games. The limit is 26. The Active chip on the depth chart shows your count against that limit. | Depth chart |
| Advance | The button that plays the next day of games for every team. Advance Week plays a week. Sim to Trade Deadline jumps ahead to the deadline. | Dashboard |
| AVG | Batting average: hits per at-bat. | Roster, Leaders |
| BB | Walks. For a hitter, walks drawn. For a pitcher, walks allowed. | Leaders, Roster, Player |
| BCH | On a depth chart position card, the bench option for that spot. | Depth chart |
| BS | Blown saves. | Roster |
| Bullpen | The relief pitchers behind your rotation. Each can hold a role. | Depth chart, Team overview |
| Bullpen | CL is Closer, SU is Setup, MR is Middle relief and LR is Long relief. RP means a reliever with no set role. | Depth chart, Roster |
| C | Catcher. A position button on the draft board. | Draft |
| Cap room | What you have left under the salary cap in a season. In the regular season, a free agent you offer a deal signs at once if you have the room. | Front office |
| Chemistry | How well your players get along. The screen gives a team verdict and a mood for each player. | Chemistry |
| Club option | An extra season after a deal. The club decides whether to keep it. A declined club option costs a 10% buyout as dead money. | Front office, Player |
| Con | Consensus grade, as the draft board column heading. On the free agency board the heading reads CON. See Consensus. | Draft, Free agency |
| Consensus | The market's grade for a player. It sits beside your scouts' OVR and POT. Where the two disagree, you may find value. | Players |
| Contact | A hitter grade for bat-to-ball skill. It drives batting average. | Player |
| Dead money | Salary still charged to you for a player who is no longer on your club. A deal that is less than fully guaranteed charges less when you cut the player. You cannot trade it away. | Team overview |
| Depth chart | The page where you set who starts at each position, who pitches, and how your manager runs the lineup. | Depth chart |
| DH | Designated hitter. A position button on the draft board, shown when the league uses a DH. | Draft |
| DIFF | Run differential: runs scored minus runs allowed. It shows a plus or minus sign. | Dashboard |
| Discipline | A hitter grade for plate judgment. It draws the walks. | Player |
| DTD | Day-to-day. A hurt player who is out 10 days or fewer. The player keeps the active roster spot and comes back on their own. | Roster, Depth chart |
| ERA | Earned run average: earned runs a pitcher allows per nine innings. | Roster, Leaders |
| ERA+ | ERA compared with the league this season. 100 is average and higher is better. | Roster |
| Extension | A new contract for a player you already have. The Offer extension button shows for players on your active roster. | Player, Roster |
| Farm systems | The page that ranks every club's minor-league talent. | Farm rankings |
| Fielding | A group of grades on the player page, one for each position the player plays in the field. | Player |
| FIP | Fielding-independent pitching. A pitcher's ERA with the defense behind the pitcher taken out. | Player |
| Free agency | The market for players with no contract. In the offseason you bid on them in rounds. | Free agency |
| GM | General manager. A GM badge marks a club run by a person. League cards show your role as GM. | Farm rankings, Leagues |
| GSc | Game Score: one number for how well a pitcher threw in a start. 50 is roughly average and 80 or more is dominant. | Leaders |
| Guaranteed | The share of the normal dead money a club pays if it cuts the player: 100%, 75% or 50%. | Player, Free agency |
| H | Hits. | Leaders |
| Hall of Fame | The roll of players the league has inducted. | Hall of Fame |
| HLD | Holds. | Leaders, Roster |
| HR | Home runs. | Roster, Leaders |
| IF | Infield: the 1B, 2B, 3B and SS positions. A position filter on the draft board and the Leaders hitting board. | Draft, Leaders, Depth chart |
| IL | Injured list. A player who is out for more than 10 days shows as IL with the days left, for example IL 34d. | Roster, Depth chart |
| IP | Innings pitched. | Roster, Leaders |
| K | Strikeouts. | Leaders, Roster, Player |
| K/9 | Strikeouts per nine innings. | Roster, Leaders |
| L | A loss. On the Schedule, L marks a game your club lost. | Schedule |
| L10 | Record over the last 10 games. | Dashboard |
| LHP | Left-handed pitcher. A platoon rule can sit a hitter against LHP. | Depth chart |
| Lineup philosophy | A depth chart setting for how your lineup is built. The choices are Balanced, Traditional and Sabermetric. | Depth chart |
| Make it work | A trade button that balances an offer you received. | Trade |
| Minors | Your players in the minor leagues, shown as a count out of the limit of 30. | Roster |
| OBP | On-base percentage: how often a hitter reaches base. | Roster, Leaders |
| OF | Outfield: the LF, CF and RF positions. A position filter on the draft board and the Leaders hitting board. | Draft, Leaders, Depth chart |
| OPS | On-base plus slugging. | Roster, Leaders |
| OVR | Overall. Your scouts' grade for how good a player is now, adjusted for age. Grades run on a 20 to 80 scale. | Players, Player |
| P | Pitcher. A position button on the draft board. | Draft |
| PA | Plate appearances. | Leaders, Player |
| PCT | Winning percentage. | Dashboard |
| Pitching hook | A depth chart setting for how fast your manager pulls a pitcher. The choices are Quick hook, Balanced and Slow hook. | Depth chart |
| Platoon | A rule that sits a starter against pitchers of one hand and starts the backup. The choices are Never, Sit vs LHP and Sit vs RHP. | Depth chart |
| Player option | The last season of a deal, which the player decides to play or skip. He decides at the Options & expirations step of the offseason. | Front office, Player |
| POT | Potential. Your scouts' grade for the peak a player can reach. | Players, Minors |
| Power | A hitter grade for home-run thump. | Player |
| PYTH | Expected winning percentage from runs scored and allowed, as a standings column. The Pyth record tile on the Dashboard shows how many wins better or worse than expected your record is. The column shows once the league has a projection. | Dashboard |
| R | Runs scored. | Leaders, Roster |
| RBI | Runs batted in. | Roster, Leaders |
| RHP | Right-handed pitcher. A platoon rule can sit a hitter against RHP. | Depth chart |
| Rotation | Your starting pitchers, in starting order. The Bullpen line in the Pitching staff list sets how many starters you use. | Depth chart, Team overview |
| SB | Stolen bases. | Roster, Leaders |
| Sealed | An offseason free agency bid. You make one offer per player. All bids open at once, and the best acceptable one wins. | Free agency |
| Shop player | A trade button. Select one of your players and every AI club offers its best package for the player. | Trade |
| SLG | Slugging percentage: bases per at-bat. It rewards extra-base hits. | Leaders |
| Speed | A hitter grade for speed. It drives stolen-base attempts. | Player |
| STRK | Current streak, such as W12. | Dashboard |
| Stuff, Control, Stamina | The three grades for a pitcher. Pick them as the rating column when you filter Players to SP or RP. | Players |
| SV | Saves. | Roster |
| sWAR | Simplified wins above replacement: runs above average scaled to wins. Do not compare it with other sites' WAR. | Roster, Leaders |
| T | A tie. On the Schedule, T marks a game that ended level. | Schedule |
| Tools | Bars that break a player's skills into separate grades. | Players |
| Trade deadline | The last day for trades in the regular season. The Deadline screen counts down to it. | Deadline |
| VORP | Value over replacement player, in wins. The Stars pane ranks players on it, and the GM leaderboard scores your moves on it. | Leaders, Player |
| W | Wins for a pitcher on the Leaders board. On the Schedule, W marks a game your club won. | Leaders, Schedule |
| W-L | Wins and losses. | Dashboard |
| WHIP | Walks plus hits allowed per inning pitched. | Roster, Leaders |