Your Crest, Not Cleveland's

The banner across the top of a player modal has always been a nice piece of work — team gradient, ghost wordmark, headshot cut out and floating. It just kept telling you something you already knew. You clicked a name on YOUR roster page, under YOUR crest, on a row that already carries the little NFL logo, and the header answered with a wall of Ravens purple. Sixteen owners, one league, and every modal looked like the NFL app.

Now the band belongs to the fantasy team. The gradient runs off the franchise's own color and the crest sits behind the cutout as a watermark, so a Pigskins player opens in Pigskins red under the pigskin, and a Midwestside player opens in gold under the MWS ring. The pro team hasn't gone anywhere — the helmet logo and the city are still on the line under the name, and the ghost wordmark behind it all still reads QB RAVENS. Click into a free agent and nothing changes at all: nobody owns him, so he keeps the NFL colors he's earned.

Two things here are The League only, because they are The League's furniture. The first is the contract sheet. Tapping the action button on a roster row used to open a plain white card with a small round headshot chip — a different-looking modal for the same player you were just looking at. It now opens with the exact same band, and it stays put at the top while the flow scrolls underneath. The three stat tiles — salary, years, designation — come with it, which matters more than it sounds: the old version hid them on the very step where you pick between Veteran Extension, Move to IR, Cut Player and Trade Player. You were being asked to choose without the three numbers the choice turns on. AFL owners have no contracts to declare, so there is no sheet there to match — the AFL's own action menu keeps the look it has.

The second is Throwback Week, which only The League runs. On that week the crest and the colors swap to whatever era your team is wearing — the one you picked in Throwback Settings, or the default the commissioner seeded — the same as the scoreboard and the lineup faceoffs. Open a player on Week 4 and he's under the 2013 mark in the 2013 red, and nobody had to remember to flip a switch.

One bit of housekeeping under the hood, and it applies in both leagues. A handful of franchise colors are far too bright to put white type on — Midwestside's gold sits at 1.5:1 — so the gradient anchor gets darkened just far enough to clear the readability floor. And where a team's primary is a flat grey or black, which several are in both leagues, the band reaches for their secondary instead; otherwise three different AFL teams opened to the same near-black header.