BLM26 Feature Reveal

It’s now time to announce the complete list of new features coming to BLM26!

BLM26 will be released on April 4th 2026. You can pre-order right now on:

• iOS
• Android
• Steam

Patreon subscriber have access the beta starting March 12th

League Control

• Every top-level league (leagues without a parent league) can now have a draft lottery.
• You can choose if a league has a draft, and you can also choose the number of rounds.
• The prospect page can now show draft-eligible prospects for each league with a draft.
• Players can now be drafted in other leagues.
• Other leagues will now have a trade deadline and make trades during the season.
• Players have different trade values depending on the league.
• Added a new inbox mail that lets you know when players are getting too old for a league with a maximum age.
• Added a new inbox mail that lets you know when one of your players has been drafted to the major league.
• During your career, you can switch to control any top-level league.
• Added a setting (per league) that allows you to choose the maximum number of contracts allowed.
• Added a setting (per league) that lets you choose if player contracts are required.
• Added a new setting (per league) that allows you to choose which rounds of draft picks are untradeable.
• Added a new setting (per league) that allows you to decide how many years a player is eligible for the draft.
• You can choose to disallow trades for a league.
• Added a mail for when a team loans a player to your team.

Import Draft

• Added an import draft when playing in a league outside of the major league.
• The import draft takes place at the beginning of the season.
• The draft contains players that have been assigned from the major league to that league.
• In previous games, when sending a player to a college (or other) league where he was not assigned, the player would join a random team. Now the player must pass through the import draft to be assigned to a team.
• As a result, players cannot be sent to a league after the import draft unless a team in that league already owns their rights.

Career Mode

• Added a reputation attribute to your manager profile.
• Your reputation determines which teams are interested in hiring you.
• Reputation fluctuates based on your team’s results and your ability to reach owner objectives.
• Trading away a player you recently signed will lower your reputation.
• Added board satisfaction tracking.
• If board satisfaction gets too low, you may be fired. Satisfaction is influenced by the same factors as reputation but on a different scale.
• You now have a contract as general manager.
• You can resign from your position, but doing so will lower your reputation.
• You can track your total career earnings.
• Once your contract expires or you get fired, you can join other teams or leagues if your reputation is high enough.
• If your reputation is high enough, you may also get the chance to manage a national team in tournaments.
• You can start in lower leagues and build up your reputation to eventually join the major league.
• You can set your preferred nationality in the settings.
• Career Mode is an optional game mode.
• The My Career page now shows results season by season instead of grouping them by team.
• The My Career page also displays your playoff stats.
• Added a new Jobs page where you can view all available general manager positions.
• Objectives must be completed before free agency.
• Added a new email in Career Mode that informs you of your season objective.
• Added a new email at the end of the season showing the results of your objectives.

Tryouts

• You can now offer tryouts to free agents during the preseason.
• You can release a player on a tryout at any point during the preseason.
• Other teams can send contract offers to your players on tryouts.
• Tryouts can be added from the roster editor.
• Added a contract type filter to the search page (Standard vs. Tryout).

Player Specialties

• Players can have a maximum of 3 active specialties.
• Specialties can be added from the roster editor.
• Specialties can be turned off.
• Specialties increase a player’s value.
  • Cannon Arm: Enhances arm strenght, allowing powerful long-distance throws.
  • Heat Launcher: Boosts pitch velocity, adding extra mph to every fastball.
  • Iron Workhorse: Increases stamina, letting the player stary effective deeper into games.
  • Iron Man: Greatly reduces injury risk and ensures consistent lineup presence.
  • Playoffs Performer: Elevates the player’s performance in the playoffs, making game-changing plays and scoring when it matters most.
  • Laser Precision: Improves throwing accuracy, keeping every throw sharp and on target.
  • Master Thief: Increases base-stealing ability, improving jump timing and success rate on stolen bases.
  • Pinpoint Artist: Enhances pitch control, improving accuracy and consistency.
  • Rabbit Dash: Boosts the player’s speed, helping them accelerate quickly and outrun defenders on close plays.
  • Sweet Spotter: Boosts contact hitting, helpoing make consistent bat-to-ball contact.
  • Thunder Swing: Increases power, adding force behind swings and boosting home-run potential.
  • Whiff Wizard: Improves pitch break, making breaking balls sharper and harder to track.

Promotions & Relegations

• Added the ability to set promotions and relegations between leagues.
• Promotions and relegations are only available between leagues without a parent league.
• Added an email notifying the user of promotions and relegations for their league at the end of the season.
• You can choose how many teams are promoted or relegated per season.
• Promoted teams are shown in green on the standings page.
• Relegated teams are shown in red on the standings page.

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Baseball improvements

• Catchers can have secondary positions
• Splitted the pitcher position into three positions:
  • Starting Pitcher (SP)
  • Relief Pitcher (RP)
  • Closing Pitcher (CP)
• Added two new hitting stats:
  • Times hit by a pitch
  • Sacrifice flies
  • Both stats have been added in the on base percentage calculation
• Fixed a bug where it was not possible to scout players to tier 5
• Fixed a bug where batters would not have a registered game played
• Added service time to player’s detail page
• Added Minor league options rules for waivers assignement
• The minor league option used value is also visible on the player detail’s page
• Changed the impact of stamina
  • The stamina now determines how many pitches a pitcher can throw effectilvely.
  • How stamina is used depends on the player’s position (SP, RP or CP) and lineup slot

Stars of the Week/Month

• Added an email for the 3 Stars of the Week and 3 Stars of the Month.
• The 3 Stars of the Month also include the Rookie of the Month.
• Stars of the Week and Month are visible on the Awards page, where you can view the full season history.

Tournaments

• You can now manage any tournaments during the season, not just the World Cup.
• Removed extra days between games; tournaments now last 2 weeks instead of a month.
• Added a relegation game.
• Added a third division composed of Brazil, Philippines, Spain, Austria and Sweden.

Records

• Added a league leaderboard for all leagues.

Women’s League

• Added the ability to create a women’s league.

Trade AI

• Teams will no longer propose trades that put them over the salary cap when using the “Find Trade” feature.
• Players with contract clauses on rebuilding teams are more willing to lift their clause to join contending teams.

Settings

• Added a setting to change the overall ranges for each potential.
• Added 52 games as an option.
• Added higher and lower draft class quality settings.
• Added a setting to prevent AI teams from declining trade offers based on their needs.
• Added a weekly autosave option.
• Added 2 new values for the Salary Increase setting.
• You can now set the regression age per position.
• Added a preset button on the Settings page to choose between Default or Auto Simulation.
• The Auto Simulation preset turns off all notifications and allows the AI to manage your team automatically.

Contracts

• A message will now be shown when a player rejects a contract offer due to insufficient contract slots or salary cap limits.
• Added an option to release unsigned players, sending them directly to free agency.
• Replaced the salary slider with a salary text field during contract negotiations.
• Unified the contracts pages on larger devices.
• Added a negotiation view to the contract list page, allowing you to see the player’s requested contracts.
• Added a footer to the contract list showing projected cap spending for upcoming seasons.
• Added a buyout indicator for when the buyout period is open.

Staff

• Scouts will no longer scout Tier 5 players when using the auto-assign feature.
• Reduced staff experience gain rate.

Commissioner Mode

• You will now receive injury, training, and monthly progression notifications for every managed team.
• Teams with AI turned off will no longer manage their staff.
• Commissioner Mode now supports expansion drafts.

Roster Editor

• You can now set a player’s draft history for each league.
• Trades can now be made between all main leagues (leagues without a minor league).
• You can change the league when viewing the list of players to edit.
• Added the ability to add players directly to a team while editing the team.
• Added a search bar to the player editor list.
• You can choose a player’s starting league and set their contract in that league, if contracts are allowed.
• When editing a player, the team’s per-league section now depends on the selected History Mode season.
• When editing or creating a league, you can choose which awards are active in that league.
• You can now create players with a rating as low as 1 overall.
• You can now create retired staff members.
• You can create leagues with up to 80 teams.
• Added a Semi-Pro III league strength.
• The location is now optional when creating a league.
• Minor and junior stats are now included in the default roster.
• Added a randomize attributes button when creating a new player.

Watchlist

• You can now add staff members to the watchlist.

Community Rosters

• Uploaded community rosters now use the same name as shown on the download page.

Miscellaneous

• Teams will take into consideration their organizational depth chart before making a draft selection
• The new contractual season now starts right before the draft instead of after
  • This will prevent teams from buying out expiring players
  • It will also increase your cap space during draft day
• Fixed a bug where teams were going over the contract limit
• Salary cap will have bigger increases
• Increased the staff salary cap from $7.000M to $8.000M
• Increased the salary ask of players over 90 overall
• Updated the generated prospects heights distribution
• Added the top 10 free agents to the free agency mail
• Added a watchlist filter to the free agency page
• Added a team filter to the news page
• Added quick access to saving and settings on the lateral navigation page on smaller devices
• Added quick access keyboard shortcuts for F1 to F10 keys
• Added the ability to set your minor team captains
• Added the ability to edit your own team retired numbers
• Added a mail that shows players in the entire organization that won an award
• Fixed a bug where some retired players would disappear

Navigation

• Merged Roster Moves, Depth Chart, Numbers, and Injury Reserve into a single page called Roster Management.
• Merged Tutorial and About into a single page.

Country Page
The new Country Page now displays the following information:

• Number of championships
• Number of Hall of Fame players
• Global rank
• Global rank history by year
• Scoring leaders per league
• Top prospects per league
• Tournament history
• A list of all teams in the country
• A list of all players from the country
• A list of all Hall of Fame players from the country
• Countries can now be searched using the search bar

League Page
The new League Page now displays the following information:

• General information: number of teams, number of games, and the salary cap.
• Current player leaders for key stats
• Current team leaders for selected categories
• Last 5 league champions.
• Recent trades in the league.
• A button to view all winning banners.
• Current playoffs bracket.

This page now merges features from the old league page, which included:

• Records
• Milestones
• Rankings
• Draft history

Additional updates:

• Added coach games and wins to the records page.
• Added games started record for goaltenders.
• Leagues can now be searched using the search bar.

Calendar Page

• Updated the calendar page visuals.
• Added the option to view the calendar as a full year or month-by-month.
• Added a button to return the focus to today’s date.
• Tablet and Desktop:
  • Updated the sidebar visuals.
  • On days with games, the sidebar shows:
    • Both teams’ logos, record, and position
    • The city where the game will be played
    • Standings, player stats, and injuries for both teams
    • Game results if the game has already been played
  • The month-by-month view is navigable with keyboard arrows.
  • Selecting a date no longer opens the simulation popup; it now shows actions in the sidebar.
  • Added the sidebar to the schedule page.

Waivers Page

• Converted the page to a list.
• Added filters for position and player types.

Draft History Page

• The draft history details page now shows player nationality and drafted round.
• Added all career stats instead of only points.
• Added a country filter to the draft history page.
• The page can now show draft histories for each league with a draft.
• Draft histories can now be searched using the search bar.
• Draft histories now include retired players.

Ranking Page

• Added average age to the Trade Power ranking.
• Added the best player to the Trade Power ranking.
• Added the number of contracts per team to the Team ranking.
• Added nationality and draft year to the Prospect ranking.

Playoffs Page

• Redesigned the page.
• Added the bracket directly on the page.
• Added scoring leaders.

Team Standing Page

• The Team Standing page now shows the user team’s division/conference first.

Team Page

• Added a Players tab showing a list of all players on the team with their current stats.
• Added a Contracts tab showing a list of all players in the organization along with their contract information.
• Added a Staffs tab showing a list of all staff members in the organization.
• Added the team country flag on the team profile page.

Lineup Page

• Updated the interface.
• Added more detailed error messages when the lineup is invalid.

Play-by-Play

• Updated the interface.
• Added improved goal animations.
• You can filter the pre-game player leaders section by season, last 10 games, or last 5 games.
• Added last 10 games record and results for each team.
• Added line charts for runs, hits, home runs, total bases, stolen bases and errors during play-by-play.

Draft Page

• Added height and weight to prospects on the scouting and draft pages.
• Added a search bar to the prospect and draft pages.
• The game will autosave after the draft when autosave is enabled.

Player Page

• Added retirements to the player history section.
• The award row in the history section is now clickable and redirects to the trophy page.
• Added the league logo next to the player award section in their profile.
• Added the ability to send contract offers to free agents directly from their profile page.
• Changed the last 5 games view to the last 10 games.
• Players now show their overall history from seasons prior to the start of the career.

Prospect Page

• Now displays awards, jerseys, milestones, and injury history.

Search Page

• Added a league dropdown.
• Added a waiver filter.
• Added a trade status filter (On the Block, Interested in Trading).
• Added a birthplace dropdown.

Trade Page

• Long-pressing on a team opens the team profile page.
• Added the original owner logo for draft picks in the trade selection page.
• You can now select multiple assets at once when trading.
• Added a search bar to search players by name on the Trade and Free Agency pages.
• Added a button to clear the current trade offer.
• Added a setting to save your trade proposal progress so you can return later with your offer preserved.

Staff Page

• Added a search bar to the staff list.
• Added a match filter to the staff list.

Season Recap Page

• Added the 3 biggest trades of the season.
• Added the 10 biggest signings of the season.
• Added goaltending stats.
• Added the playoffs bracket.

Roster Moves Page

• Added a development trend indicator to the roster moves player list.

Hall of Fame Page

• The inducted player list now shows each player’s country flag.

Steam

• Added a search bar to dropdown menus.
• Added a “Last 10 Games” tooltip when hovering over a game-played value on the Team Standing and Office pages.
• Added a player preview tooltip on trade offers and on the draft page.