Everything in Blue Chip Lax, one scannable tour

Recruiting. A yearly cycle of boards, banked effort points, official visits and one Signing Day reveal, with realism caps that keep a D3 from buying a 5★. The keyword tour is at the recruiting simulator page; the working manual is the recruiting guide.

Scouting. A three-stage calendar — showcases to discover, school ball to sharpen, workouts to lock in — moves prospects up a visibility ladder from Unknown to Evaluated, and sometimes surfaces a hidden gem.

The transfer portal. Unhappy underclassmen carry real transfer risk; NIL, roles and winning keep them home. Departures sting, and arrivals come with stories.

Rotation & lineup. Starters, bench order, identity roles and stacking specialist slots (your Captain can be your FOGO), plus six tunable usage shares. Full detail on the manager game page.

The season sim. Full schedules across 248 real programs (or a 288-team fictional world), box scores, goal-by-goal play-by-play, conference tournaments and a national bracket — see what the simulator covers.

Schemes. Four offensive and four defensive styles in a matchup matrix with swings up to ±1.3 goals, flagged weekly.

Program Pulse. The locker room, live: twelve kinds of issues — a benched talent, a homesick freshman, boosters circling — each triggered by your real situation, answered with coaching choices whose promises the game tracks to season’s end.

Rivalries. Named trophies, series ledgers, dossiers and bulletin-board chatter — the full treatment is on the rivalries page.

Promotion & relegation. A three-division pyramid with real movement at both boundaries; the thought experiment lives at the pro/rel page.

The Yearbook. Every season ends as a page — signature win, senior send-offs, an honest A–F coach grade — shelved and reopenable; the memory system is explained on the Yearbook page.

Legends & bloodlines. Career timelines, retired jerseys, GOAT debates, and generated family lines — the long game is the dynasty page.

Coach career. XP, a nine-perk skill tree, earned reputation badges, and pressure gauges that read like a board meeting — compared honestly with the genre on the Football Manager page.

Scenarios & Guided Mode. Ten jump-in starts (The 1-Win Miracle, Signing Day Heist, Hot Seat Saturday…), each a real sim state, plus a skippable one-hint-at-a-time Guided Mode for new coaches.

Analytics & keepsakes. Optional supporter tiers add trend dashboards, extra save slots, a printable Dynasty Almanac and cosmetic skins. The whole core game above is free — none of it is gated.