Cinematic Draft: Pick Overlay, Featured-Pick Stage & Mock-Draft Weeks
The draft now gets its big moment: every pick opens a cinematic overlay with player photo, pick number and live grade — and the strongest value pick of a sim run gets its own featured-pick stage. On top of that, three mock-draft weeks (17 / 21 / 25) drop into the season, the pre-draft banner has been hyped up, and the mock-draft box itself ships with a team-color header and a responsive prospect-card grid.
🏈 Pick-by-Pick Overlay
- Pre-draft welcome banner with on-the-clock card frames the entry into the draft sim — the overlay opens directly on the first pick
- Cinematic single-pick overlay: large player photo, stamp-in pick-number animation (stays visible after the stamp), team logo, OVR/POT rings and a live grade — all in a clean, readable stack
- Trade-pick preselect: when a trade workflow is active, the relevant pick is auto-selected, no more hunting through the pick list
- Welcome icon de-duplicated — the header now shows the logo cleanly once per visit
🎬 Featured-Pick Stage & Closing Box
- For multi-pick sims (e.g. simulating a full round) the highest-value pick gets its own cinematic stage with a highlight animation — labelled "Best Pick of the Sim Run"
- Closing box at the end of the sim: value-gain feature with team-by-team uplift, a champion strip with the three best draft classes and a wrap-up card
- The featured pick is shown regardless of pick order — even a round-3 steal can become the star of the run
🎯 Mock Drafts in Weeks 17 / 21 / 25
- Three round-1 mock drafts now generate automatically in week 17 (trade-deadline mock), week 21 (mid-season) and week 25 (final mock) and link straight from
draft.php - Pre-draft banner significantly hyped up: bigger hero block with countdown vibe, clearer hierarchy on the draft page
- Draft-class, players and order links are now consistently localized (DE/EN)
🪟 Mock-Draft Box Polish
- Mock-draft box header now uses the user team's
color1+ a 📋 clipboard icon — a visual anchor that matches your team - Header text stays left-aligned, even with long box titles
- Responsive prospect-card grid: cards collapse cleanly on narrow screens, with no broken OVR/POT rings or stars
- Thinner OVR/POT rings and bigger stars in the mock-draft cells — more focus on the content, less UI chrome
🧹 Smaller Polishing
news.php"All" filter showed an empty table after a game switch — fix re-evaluates the current game context cleanly so all news of the active save reappear- Footer awards: name on its own row, meta row underneath, equal-height cards — and fictional press outlets for more atmosphere
The draft sim now feels like its own event moment — with welcome banner, cinematic pick overlay, a dedicated stage for the best value pick and a closing card that frames your draft class. Plus three mock-draft weeks across the season so the hype starts well before week 25.