Roster status: what Auto, Regular and Sub mean

The team's season table has a "Regulars only" tick above it, and when it is on, the players who turned up for less than half the team's games in the window are hidden. That is the answer to the question that brings most people here: a teammate who was on the table last month and is not there now has not been removed, their at-bats have not gone anywhere, and nothing has been deleted — somebody has that box ticked, and that player is not clearing the attendance bar.

Attendance is a good default and it is wrong at both edges, which is what the three-way Roster status control on each player exists to fix. Auto is every player until somebody says otherwise, and it means "decide by attendance". Regular keeps that player on the table however few games they played — the fill-in who turns up every week, the player who joined in July. Sub hides them however many they played — the ringer who played every game of a tournament and is not part of the season you are reading. An explicit mark always beats attendance, in both directions.

What a mark changes is one table and the strip above it, and nothing else. It decides which rows the team's season table shows while "Regulars only" is ticked, and it keeps a designated Sub out of the leaders strip and the season wrap's awards — because naming somebody the team's AVG leader directly above a table that hides them is the bug that rule was written for. It does not touch that player's own stats: their average, their spray chart, their game log and their season totals are exactly what they always were, on their phone and on yours. It does not change the team's totals either — a sub's at-bats are still in the team's runs, hits and record, the same as a former member's are. And it is never applied to a single game's player table, because greying somebody out of one night's box score is a different question.

Two things follow from that which are worth saying plainly. The mark is team-wide and current rather than per season, so marking somebody a Sub today changes how last year's table reads as well. And it is the team's, not yours: anyone on the team can set it, everybody sees the same table, and a wrap you have already shared recomputes its awards when somebody next opens it.

A player you have marked Sub is tagged Sub on the table while the filter is off, so the reason their row is about to disappear is visible before it does. A Regular gets no tag, deliberately — it is the state everybody already appears to be in, and a badge on most of the roster says nothing. Roster-only players can be marked exactly like teammates with accounts, which matters because the person filling in usually does not have the app.

Two edge cases worth knowing. If everybody on the roster is marked Sub the table does not empty itself — a blank table is not what anybody asked for, so the filter stands down. And a mark on somebody who has since left the team is ignored rather than deleted: their row is treated as Auto while they are gone, and if they rejoin, their old mark comes back.

The export does not filter at all, which is the right behaviour for a file: every player is in it, with a column saying whether they are auto, regular or sub, so a spreadsheet can make its own decision about who to include.