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The AFL homepage hero during the keeper window: a trophy-gold gradient with the word KEEPERS bled across the top in oversized ghost type, the AFL football crest faint on the right. A pill reads “2026 KEEPER DEADLINE” above the headline “Lock in your core.” and the line “5 days until the keeper deadline. Lock in your 7 protected players before July 15 @ 8:45pm PT.” A large 5 sits under “DAYS TO LOCK · JUL 15 · 8:45PM PT” beside a white “Manage Keepers” button.
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The Homepage Knows Whose Draft It Is

The AFL homepage used to run every announcement through the same card. Now the moments that matter get a look of their own — trophy gold through the keeper window, deep navy for the drafts, and urgent red on the day itself. Each conference names its own draft in six-inch letters, so you never have to squint at the fine print to work out whether it is your Saturday or somebody else's Sunday. And when your conference rosters the player on the card, the glow behind him turns your colors.

The Full Story

For a while now the AFL homepage has led with a player's face, and the player has always meant something — your keeper cornerstone in July, the best man left on the board in August. What it did not do was look like anything in particular. Keeper deadline, draft weekend, a quiet Tuesday in October: same card, same colors, different words.

That changes today. The keeper window now arrives in trophy gold, because keepers are the closest thing this league has to a coronation. The two conference drafts come in AFL navy with the conference's own name bled across the top in letters you can read from the far side of the room — AL DRAFT on Saturday, NL DRAFT on Sunday. And on the day itself, whichever day is yours, the whole card goes red.

That last part matters more than it sounds. The AL meets and picks live; the NL grinds through a slow email draft off a completely different page. Every year somebody clicks the wrong one. Now the hero says which draft it is before you have read a single word of it, and the button underneath goes where you actually draft.

The part we are quietly proud of: this league lets two teams roster the same player, one in each conference. So when the homepage puts a face on the card, "whose player is that" genuinely has two answers. It now picks the one in your conference — if you keep him, the glow behind him is your club's color, not Detroit's or Cincinnati's. Your rival across the divide, keeping the same guy, sees his own colors on the same face. Nobody gets shown a stranger's paint.

If you would rather read how the whole thing works than look at it, there is a full write-up of the hero system — the casting rules, the image pipeline, and why a licensing problem turned into a design language. Otherwise: go check your roster, the deadline is closer than you think.

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