Over the Apron
The playbook · six plays

You run the front office.
The CBA runs you.

Live rosters, real cap sheets, and the core 2023 CBA rules that decide most offseason moves. Anything underlined or badge-shaped 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 from the current data. 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

Each team card is a ledger: the salary meter against the four lines that decide everything, four seasons of commitments, your own free agents’ cap holds, and chips for the signing tools 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 — free agents show 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

See why a move passes or fails

Stage a move and the stamp comes down — not just “no,” but the rule behind the result when one applies: the matching band you failed by how many dollars, the aggregation ban, the freeze date, the Stepien rule. The coverage page lists what is modeled and where public data is still incomplete.

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. Each verdict is judged against the moves you’ve already made — 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 board remembers.
Play 06

Ship the receipt

Hit Share card on any verdict for a screenshot-ready filing: the deal, the stamp, and the 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