#702 League captures on their own

Ross: "Remove League capture from squad capture to allow leagues to be captured independently", and "Add dropdown on league comparison to allow capture against different league captures". Drawn in the app's own palette. Only December's 357-player Premier League sample is real; the other captures listed are illustrative.

Today

The league is the last seven steps of Capture month (#663), and a sample is filed under the season and month you picked for the squad. The seven marked steps are what moves out.

TeamManchester United
SquadFirst TeamU21sU18s
Season25/26 Month JulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecemberJanuary
Capturing for Manchester United · First Team · 25/26 · December
Capture month

Capture month: 17 steps

Squad view
Attributes
Statistics
Metrics Aerial, Crossing, Defending, Goalkeeping, Movement, Passing, Shooting
League the same seven, 357 rows each

Option A: a second button

The least change. Capture league sits beside Capture month and uses the same season and month, so the only thing that moves is the button you press. The team and squad chips stay on screen, though a league capture ignores them.

TeamManchester United
SquadFirst TeamU21sU18s
Season25/26 Month JulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecemberJanuary
Capturing for Manchester United · First Team · 25/26 · December
Capture monthCapture league

Capture month: 10 steps

Squad view
Attributes
Statistics
Metrics seven

Capture league: 7 steps

Aerial
Crossing
Defending
Goalkeeping
Movement
Passing
Shooting

Option B: a League mode

A Squad | League switch at the top. In League mode the team and squad chips go, because a league has neither, and the screen lists the captures already held, which today are visible nowhere. It is also the natural place for a date read from FM (#703) to replace the month chips.

SquadLeague
Season25/26 Month JulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecemberJanuary
League captures held, 25/26PlayersFM filterCategories
Premier League · December35710+ apps7 of 7delete
Premier League · November34110+ apps7 of 7delete
Premier League · October32210+ apps7 of 7delete
Championship · December40210+ apps5 of 7delete
Capture league Division is read off FM's rows, as today, so one button covers any league.

Needs the squad to have been captured at least once (#663): a league read can only store columns the squad side has defined. League mode should say so rather than drop them quietly.

The dropdown: which capture to compare against

On the player card's League comparison tab, above the peer-group chips. It defaults to what the card uses today, the latest capture in the season. It lists every capture held, grouped by season and division, so a man can be read against last month, or against another league. The summary line keeps saying which one was used.

OverviewAttributesStatistics & metricsSquad comparisonLeague comparison
Compared withPremier League · December 25/26 · 357 players
EveryoneGoalkeepersFull backsCentre backsMidfieldersStrikers
Ranked against everyone — 357 players in Premier League, December.
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Whose figures are ours? When our man is in the sample, his figures come out of its rows and match it by construction. Against another league, or an older capture, they must come from his squad capture nearest the league's date.

Does the choice stick: per card, per board, or everywhere until changed? And should the default be the latest capture in our division rather than any division?