Player Development

Player development is led by Coach Bloom, the cultivator on your AI staff. The hub is the Player Development page (/development), where you can see active plans, generate new ones, and track progress through the season.

Creating a plan

From the Player Development index, click New Plan. Two preconditions:

• The season must be active.
• The player can't already have an active plan. (Plans are exclusive — finish or archive the existing one first.)

The form has three sections:

• Player (required) — single-select dropdown of available players, with position, year, and role shown for context. Players who already have an active plan are filtered out.
• Schedule (required) — start date (defaults to today) and length (2, 4, 6, or 8 weeks).
• Focus Areas (optional) — free text for what you want this plan to prioritize ("right-hand finishing, on-ball defense closeouts").

Two ways to create:

• Generate Plan — runs the AI pipeline. Coach Bloom drafts the weekly structure, drills, and coaching points based on the player's profile, your roster context, and the focus areas you provided.
• Start Blank — creates an empty plan structure you fill in yourself. Useful when you'd rather draft from scratch.

Once a player is selected, you can also talk it out with Coach Prime — describe the player's development priorities and context out loud, review what's captured, and let it pre-fill the form before generating.

Generation is asynchronous — you'll see a progress card on the Player Development index while it runs.

What's in a plan

• Player header — name, position, role, projected minutes
• Plan metadata — start date, length, focus areas (editable)
• Weekly breakdowns — for each week: goals, drills, coaching points
• Key development areas — the top priorities Coach Bloom is targeting

The view is editable end-to-end. Toggle Edit to revise weekly content, swap drills, or adjust focus areas as the plan progresses.

Dev plans vs. dev cards

Two related but distinct things live on a player's profile:

• Dev plan — the multi-week, AI-generated plan covered above. Structured, formal, time-bound.
• Dev card — a lightweight, persistent card on the player's profile capturing the short-form picture: what they're working on right now, recent notes, quick reference. Always there, no formal structure required.

Use the dev card for day-to-day notes and the dev plan when you want a deliberate, multi-week roadmap.

Updating as the season unfolds

Open an active plan and update progress notes as you go — what's improving, what's stuck. You can type a check-in or talk it out with Coach Prime and let him structure your spoken update. Those notes feed back into future plan generations and into the weekly report Coach Prime produces, so the longer you use it the more contextual the suggestions become.