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Glossary
These are the terms FTG Football shows on its screens, in A to Z order, with the screen where you meet each one.
| Term | Plain meaning | Where you see it |
|---|---|---|
| Active | The players who can play in games. The Active chip on the Depth chart counts them against your limit: 40 in the season, 53 in the offseason. On Players, Active is also a Status filter. | Depth chart, Roster, Players |
| Advance anyway | The sim button when your depth chart has a gap. It advances the league with the gap still open. | Run your season |
| AGE | On Outlook, the average age of the players at a position. | Outlook |
| Age | The player's age in years. | Players, Roster, Front office, Reserves |
| All-Pro | The best player at each position, voted when the regular season ends: a first team and a second team. | All-Pro, Records, History |
| Asking | The price a free agent wants. It is the first figure in the bid pane. | Free agency |
| Attitude reset | A development goal. The player works on attitude. | Coaching |
| Auto set | A Depth chart button. It resets every slot to the top-rated active player at that spot. | Depth chart |
| AV | Approximate Value: one number for how much a player gave a team in a season, across all positions. | Roster, News, Trade block |
| Bid | The button on a free agent row in the offseason. It reads Your bid once you have bid, and Offer in the season. | Free agency |
| Big board | The ranked list of the draft class on Scouting. | Scouting |
| Breakout push | A development goal. The player gets extra work to raise the player's ceiling. | Coaching |
| Breaks promise | A warning on a Balance move. The move would go against a promise made to a player. | Roster |
| Bust | A Verdict on The draft class in Season recap. The drafted player is not working out. | Season recap |
| Bye | A week in which your club has no game. | Schedule |
| Cancers | A group on Clubhouse composition. Its players sour fast on losing teams and cancel out a leader. | Chemistry |
| Cap hit | What a player counts against your salary cap. It shows only in leagues that show money. | Roster, Outlook, Trade block, Trade |
| Cap room | What you have left under the salary cap. | Overview, Front office, Free agency |
| Career AV | The sum of a player's season AV over his career in the league. A Hall of Fame plaque shows it beside the position. | Hall of Fame |
| Career year | A tag on a Player report card in Season recap. The season was the player's best by AV. | Season recap |
| CB | Cornerback. | Players |
| Championship Game | The title game between the two conference winners. It is the stage after the Playoffs on the Calendar. | Calendar, Champions |
| Chemistry | How well the locker room gets along. The screen gives a verdict for the club and a mood for each player. | Chemistry |
| Coastal | One of the two conferences. The Dashboard standings switch between Coastal and Heartland. Division names start with the conference, for example Coastal East. | Dashboard |
| Combine | An offseason stage on the Calendar. Scout grades sharpen and hidden traits surface. | Calendar |
| CON | The consensus column on the draft board. It shows the room's read of how good a prospect can become. | Draft |
| Cons | The short heading for Consensus ceiling on narrow windows. | Scouting |
| Consensus | A third rating you can choose to show and sort by on Players, beside OVR and POT. | Players |
| Consensus ceiling | The room's read of how good a draft prospect can become. It is a ceiling, not the prospect's rating today. Compare it with Your ceiling read. | Scouting, Prospect, Player |
| Contract window | An offseason stage on the Calendar. You re-sign or extend the players you want to keep before the market opens. | Calendar |
| Cut saves | The cap room you would gain by cutting the player. It shows only in leagues that show money. | Roster |
| Day-to-day | An injury status. The Day-to-day chip on the Depth chart counts your active players who have it. | Depth chart |
| Dead money | Cap money still charged to your club for a player who has left it. | Front office, Overview |
| Defense | A rating for a defensive coordinator. Defense is also a tab on the Depth chart and a filter on Leaders. | Coach profile, Depth chart, Leaders |
| Depth chart | The screen where you choose who starts and who backs up at each position. | Depth chart |
| Depth piece | A tag on a Player report card in Season recap. The player filled a depth role. | Season recap |
| Development | A rating for coordinators. Development is also the tab on Coaching where you set development goals. | Coaching, Coach profile |
| Div. | A Big board column. It shows Steal when your scouts rate a prospect above the room, and Fade when they rate the prospect below. | Scouting |
| Down year | A tag on a Player report card in Season recap. The season was the player's worst by AV. | Season recap |
| DPOY | Defensive Player of the Year. | History |
| DT | Defensive tackle. | Players |
| Durability program | A development goal. The player works on staying healthy. | Coaching |
| EDGE | Edge rusher: a defensive end or an outside linebacker. | Players |
| EXP | On Outlook, how many contracts at a position expire within a year. | Outlook |
| FA | A tile in place of a team crest. It marks a free agent. | Players, Leaders |
| Fade | A Div. mark on the Big board. Your scouts rate the prospect below the room. | Scouting |
| FB | Fullback. | Players |
| Find a new club | A When a GM is fired setting. A fired GM picks an open club to take over, and the old club goes to the AI. | Commissioner, Front office |
| Fit | A green chip on Scheme fit. The player suits the head coach's schemes. | Coaching |
| Franchise tag | A pane on Front office. In the offseason you tag one of your pending free agents to keep the player. | Front office |
| Free agency | The market for players with no contract. The offseason bidding runs in rounds. | Free agency |
| Free agent | A player with no contract. A free agent shows no team. | Player, Players |
| Front office read | A note in the bid pane on how your front office sees the bid. | Free agency |
| Furnace | The hottest hot seat label on a coach profile. | Coach profile |
| Game mgmt | A head coach rating. | Coach profile |
| Glue guys | A group on Clubhouse composition. Its players help hold the room together. | Chemistry |
| GM | General manager. A GM is the person who runs a club. GMs ranks every GM by score. | GMs |
| Goals and firing | An Ownership choice on the create form. Owners set goals, and an owner whose confidence runs out fires the GM. | Leagues, Front office |
| GP | Games played this season. | Roster |
| Grade | On Roster, a production grade from 0 to 100 where 60 is average, graded against players at the same position. On Draft report, the letter grade for a team's draft. | Roster, Draft report |
| Hall of Fame | The wall of retired players the league has enshrined. | Hall of Fame |
| HC | Head coach. The Coach market names the role as HC when it compares a coach with your current one. | Coaching |
| Healthy | A chip on the Depth chart. It counts your active players who are not day-to-day. | Depth chart |
| Heartland | One of the two conferences. See Coastal. | Dashboard |
| Heating up | The middle hot seat label. The job is under pressure. | Coach profile, Coaching |
| Hidden gem | A tag on a talent facet on a prospect page. The facet is a strength. | Prospect |
| Hire interim | A button on an open coach role. It signs a cheap stopgap coach. | Coaching |
| Hole | A Read on Outlook. The position has a clear gap. | Outlook |
| Hot seat | How much pressure a coach's job is under. Coaching shows it from 0 to 100. | Coaching, Coach profile |
| Hotheads | A group on Clubhouse composition. Its players have big mood swings and clash with other fiery teammates. | Chemistry |
| IR | Injured reserve. A roster place for hurt players. On Players, IR is a Status filter. | Players |
| K | Kicker. The Depth chart has a slot for K on special teams. | Players, Depth chart |
| L | A loss on the Schedule, shown as a mark next to the opponent. | Schedule |
| LB | Linebacker. | Players |
| Leaders | On Chemistry, a group on Clubhouse composition whose players set a good tone. As a screen, the season statistic boards. | Chemistry, Leaders |
| Leadership | A head coach rating. | Coach profile |
| Learn a position | A development goal. The player trains at a new position. | Coaching |
| Live | A tag on a league card for a league that does not need you right now. | My leagues |
| Locked in | The safest hot seat label on the Coaching screen. | Coaching |
| Locked-in | The best locker room verdict on Chemistry. | Chemistry |
| Locker room | The Chemistry pane with the club verdict, a score out of 100 and a summary line. | Chemistry |
| Met | An Owner's Box result. The owner counts the season goal as achieved. | Owner's box |
| Mood | How a player feels. The order runs from Furious to Unhappy, Neutral, Content and Thrilled. | Chemistry |
| MVP | Most Valuable Player. | History |
| Needs you | A tag on a league card: the league is waiting on a decision from you. Also the list under the Next sim card of what waits on you before the next sim. | My leagues, Run your season |
| New ownership | A When a GM is fired setting. The owner sells the club instead. The GM stays, and the new owner starts fresh. | Commissioner, Front office |
| Not met | An Owner's Box result. The owner counts the season goal as missed. | Owner's box |
| Off | A quiet chip on Scheme fit. The player does not suit the head coach's schemes. | Coaching |
| Offense | A rating for an offensive coordinator. Offense is also a tab on the Depth chart and a filter on Leaders. | Coach profile, Depth chart, Leaders |
| OL | Offensive lineman. | Players |
| OPOY | Offensive Player of the Year. | History |
| OT | Overtime. An overtime adds an OT column to the Line score of a box score. | Box score |
| OTAs | An offseason stage on the Calendar. Players develop on the practice field. | Calendar |
| OVR | Overall: the player's current rating. | Players, Roster, Player |
| Owner firing | A league setting, On or Off, that shows while owner goals are on. When it is On, an owner whose confidence runs out fires a human GM at the season rollover. | Commissioner, Front office |
| Owner goals | A league setting, On or Off. When it is On, the owner sets a goal each season. The Ownership choice on the create form has three settings: Off, Owner goals, and Goals and firing. | Commissioner, Owner's box |
| P | Punter. The Depth chart has a slot for P on special teams. | Players, Depth chart |
| PA | Points allowed. A bar on the Point diff cell of the Dashboard. | Dashboard |
| Peak | A player's best rating. | Coaching |
| PF | Points for. A bar on the Point diff cell of the Dashboard. | Dashboard |
| Playing time | A pane on the Depth chart Snaps tab. It lists active players who are on nobody's two-deep. | Depth chart |
| Playoff odds | Your chance of making the playoffs. | Dashboard, Overview |
| Point diff | Points scored minus points allowed. | Dashboard |
| POT | Potential: the scouted ceiling for a player. Your scouts' read sharpens as the player develops. | Players, Front office |
| Pot | Potential: the scouted ceiling for a player. Same as POT. | Roster, Reserves |
| Practice squad | A developmental roster with a limit of 16. Its players do not count against the cap. | Reserves, Roster, Depth chart |
| Prima donnas | A group on Clubhouse composition. Its players demand a star role, and their mood drops when their playing time dips. | Chemistry |
| Production | A short stat line on Roster. It changes with the position and you cannot sort it. | Roster, Players |
| Proj | A tag on the Draft order. The pick is not made yet, and the prospect shown is a projection. | Draft order |
| Projected wins | How many games the game expects your club to win this season. | Dashboard, Overview |
| PS | A tag for a practice squad player. | Front office |
| QB | Quarterback. | Players |
| Quiet pros | On Clubhouse composition, the players your scouts looked at and found nothing unusual. | Chemistry |
| Rank | On Roster, rank within the player's position, league-wide. On Stats, where a total ranks among the 32 teams. | Roster, Stats |
| RB | Running back. | Players |
| Reach | A tag on a Draft report pick. The team took the player earlier than the board value supports. | Draft report |
| Read | On Outlook, a one-word verdict on a position: Hole, Thin, Solid or Strength. On Scouting, the short heading for Your ceiling read. | Outlook, Scouting |
| Red flag | A tag on a talent facet on a prospect page. The facet is a concern. | Prospect |
| Rotation | A pane on the Depth chart Snaps tab. It lists each slot with a starter and a backup, with the split between them. | Depth chart |
| ROY | Rookie of the Year. | History |
| S | Safety. | Players |
| Sc% | The short heading for Score % on a phone. | Box score |
| Scheme fit | A Coaching pane. It lists your active players and whether each one suits the head coach's schemes. | Coaching |
| Scheme versatility | A development goal. The player works on fitting more than one scheme. | Coaching |
| Score % | On the Drive success table of a box score, the share of a club's drives that scored. | Box score |
| Sealed | A bid you can no longer pull. The round has closed and nobody sees your number. | Free agency |
| Secure | The safest hot seat label on a coach profile. | Coach profile |
| Set aside | An Owner's Box result. The goal did not count for that season. | Owner's box |
| Signing bonus | Money a player gets up front when signing. You set it in the bid pane. | Free agency |
| Sim to… | The menu beside the advance button. Sim to end of season plays to the title. Sim to next season plays to week 1 of the next season, and only shows in a league with one human GM. | Run your season |
| Snap share | The share of snaps a player is on the field for. | Player |
| Snaps | Plays a player was on the field for this season. On the Depth chart, Snaps is also a tab for how snaps split between players. | Roster, Depth chart |
| Solid | A Read on Outlook. The position is sound. | Outlook |
| Stacked | On a Trade side pane, a team's strongest position groups, rated on current OVR. | Trade |
| Steal | A tag for a good draft result. On Draft report, a pick that beat its slot. On Season recap, a drafted player who is working out. On the Big board, your scouts rate the prospect above the room. | Draft report, Season recap, Scouting |
| Strength | A Read on Outlook. The position is a clear strong point. | Outlook |
| Strong year | A tag on a Player report card in Season recap. The player had a good season. | Season recap |
| Surplus | A dollar figure on GMs for value gained. It shows only in leagues that show money. | GMs |
| T | A tied game on the Schedule, shown as a mark next to the opponent. | Schedule |
| Tag value | The franchise tag price. All-Pro shows it for each position. | All-Pro, Front office |
| Talent eval | A coach rating. Every coach role shows it. | Coach profile |
| TE | Tight end. | Players |
| Tenure | How long a coach has held a job. | Front office, Coach profile, Coaching moves |
| The wire | The news feed of recent signings, trades, cuts and retirements. News and Calendar both show it as The wire. | News, Calendar |
| Thin | A Read on Outlook. The position is short of depth. On a trade pane, Thin lists the positions where a team is short. | Outlook, Trade |
| Tier | A band for a player or a GM. A player page shows a player's tier beside OVR. GMs shows each GM's tier. | Player, GMs |
| TO | Turnovers. The short heading on a phone for the Turnovers column of a box score. | Box score |
| TOP | Time of possession: how long the drive kept the ball. | Box score |
| Training Camp | The last offseason stage on the Calendar. | Calendar |
| Trait | A trait on the Big board, shown once your scouts uncover it. | Scouting |
| Trust | The trust label next to a GM's score on GMs. The labels run from Burned to Wary, Neutral, Solid and Trusted. | GMs |
| Value | On Draft report, a tag on a pick that fits its slot. On a Trade side pane, the column that shows each player's OVR and potential, with cap hit and years left when money is on. | Draft report, Trade |
| Value balance | The middle pane of Trade. It shows a verdict on how fair the deal is. | Trade |
| W | A win on the Schedule, shown as a mark next to the opponent. | Schedule |
| Wk | Week. | Player |
| WR | Wide receiver. | Players |
| Yds/Drive | On the Drive success table of a box score, yards gained per drive. | Box score |
| Your ceiling read | Your scouts' read of how good a draft prospect can become. It is a ceiling, not the prospect's rating today. Compare it with Consensus ceiling. | Scouting, Prospect, Player |
| Yrs | Contract years left. | Roster, Reserves |