Over the Apron
The playbook · six plays

You run the front office.
The CBA runs you.

Live rosters, real cap sheets, every 2023-CBA rule enforced — and a citation with every verdict. Anything underlined or badge-shaped, anywhere on the site, can be tapped for a plain-English explainer.

Play 01

Take a job

Pick a franchise — that’s whose cap sheet, roster, free agents, and draft picks you inherit, exactly as they stand today. Bring trade partners onto the board with + Add team (up to eight), and switch jobs anytime via the logo or Switch team.

Whose front office?
BOS
NYK
LAL
OKC
SAS
GSW
MIA
DEN
↑ your problem now
Play 02

Read the cap sheet

Every team card is a real ledger: the salary meter against the four lines that decide everything, four seasons of commitments, your own free agents’ cap holds, and a chip for every signing tool the CBA currently allows this team. Tap any number, badge, or line — the fine print pops up where you’re standing.

Team salary$215,000,000
CapTax1A2A
Cap · the soft ceilingTax · where it costs1A · lose your tools2A · the punishment
Play 03

Make moves

Trade — tap players and pick chips to stage them. Sign — every free agent shows the best legal mechanism and your true max offer. Extend — the EXT tag opens a sheet capped by the 140% rule. Renounce — clear a hold to open room, at the cost of Bird rights. Stuck? The Trade finder builds ranked legal packages — throw-ins included.

Stephen Curry$62.6M
Moses Moody→ MIA$12.5M
Al HorfordNO-TRADE$6.8M
tap a player → he’s in the deal
Play 04

Every verdict cites the rule

Stage anything and the stamp comes down — never just “no,” always which rule: the matching band you failed by how many dollars, the aggregation ban, the freeze date, the Stepien rule. Real July deals replay as legal through this engine; that’s the bar.

Legal tradeBlocked
legal under expanded matching, 125% + $250k band
over the second apron — salaries cannot be aggregated
Play 05

Moves build on each other

The part no trade machine does: your offseason is one continuous timeline. Use the full MLE today and the hard cap it triggers will block a perfectly-matched trade next week. Every verdict is judged against everything you’ve already done — your move list lives in the bar at the bottom, undo-able move by move.

hard cap · first apron
Mon
Sign with the MLE
Wed
Bird re-sign
Fri
Trade BLOCKED
Monday’s signing killed Friday’s trade. The sim remembers.
Play 06

Ship the receipt

Hit Share card on any verdict for a screenshot-ready filing: the deal, the stamp, and the exact rules it passes or breaks. Download it, copy the link, or post it — settle the group chat with citations.

Over the ApronLegal trade
BOS BOSgets $49.8M
LAL LALgets $58.5M
Filed · 2023 CBAovertheapron.com