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WorldbyFlow for front office and roster strategy staff

A rival made a trade that does not fit their timeline and the whole league is guessing why. WorldbyFlow reads the motive from the record with each explanation graded, keeps a deal record for the market you shop in, and maps the money behind the cap, so the read you give the general manager has a basis.

Written for General manager's staff, cap analysts and roster strategists at a professional franchise.·Runs in the Sports domain

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Where this fits in your week

Roster strategy is a market read conducted under a cap. The scans here are the desk you already keep, written from the record: why a rival did the deal, a dossier on the club you are negotiating with, the contract market with terms verbatim or marked undisclosed, a case study of a rebuild that worked or did not, and the money trail behind the cap and the tax.

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Why They Did It

3 credits · in-depth · about 2–4 min

Why a rival made the trade or the signing, with the stated reason and the alternatives graded against the record. The read before you react.

Try it on: a subject you already hold an opinion about, so you can grade the result against what you know.
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Team Dossier

2 credits

A club read whole: roster, record, cap position, documented moves, assembled and sourced. The counterparty file before a call.

Try it on Oakland Athletics · Tampa Bay Rays · San Antonio Spurs · New England Patriots

Deal Flow

3 credits

The contract market with parties, dates, honest status and terms verbatim or marked undisclosed, never estimated. The comparable table, kept honest.

Try it on NBA max contracts · NFL quarterback contracts · MLB free agency

Case Study

2 credits

A rebuild or a dynasty worked end to end: setup, what happened, the turning point, outcome and lessons. The precedent for the plan you are pitching.

Try it on The Process in Philadelphia · Moneyball in Oakland · The Warriors' dynasty build

Follow the Money

2 credits

The cap, the tax and the guaranteed money mapped as flows: who pays, who gains, what is committed. The financial structure under the roster.

Try it on The NBA salary cap · NFL guaranteed money · The MLB luxury tax
A working path

From a first run to a result you can hand over

The order matters. The first read gives you the structure; the next ones fill the parts that are hardest to source by hand.

01

Run Why They Did It on the last trade that surprised the league

Read the graded explanations. If the one it rates highest is the one your room settled on after a week, the tool did it in ten minutes.

3 credits
02

Run Deal Flow on the contract market you are entering

Comparable deals with terms verbatim or undisclosed. The table for the negotiation.

3 credits
03

Run Case Study on the rebuild you are modeling

What actually happened, in order, and the lessons. The precedent page for the owner.

2 credits
04

Take it to the GM

Export the reads as PDFs for the roster meeting, or share them as pages the front office can open.

No credits.
The research bill for this path
3 + 3 + 2 = 8 credits · a Standard plan carries 20 a month
What comes back

A result whose claims carry their grades

Sourced, not asserted

Every figure and quote links to where it came from. A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up.

Verified or grounded
Reported or attributed
Contested
Open question

Ready to hand over

Export the reads as PDFs for the roster meeting, or share them as pages the general manager can open before the call.

Built to be argued with

Ask a follow-up question of any result, or run a Red Team pass that tries to break its own conclusions before someone else does. How the grades work →

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Research already published in this shape

Spain 1–0 Argentina — 2026 World Cup Final, Extra Time

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Spain's midfield trio of Rodri, Fabián Ruiz, and Pedri completed 647 passes to Argentina's 337 — a structural suffocation that made the 106th-minute winner inevitable.

Game Analysis · July 20, 2026 · from the Sports library
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Run Why They Did It on something you already know

The fastest way to judge the result is to pick a subject you know cold and read it against what you know. If a colleague sent you here with an invitation, the credits land on your account when you sign up.

Start with Why They Did It →Standard plan from $10/mo · 20 credits · all plans
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