It’s that time of year again! The offseason is upon us, and as is tradition here at Amazin’ Avenue, we turn to our community to do something that’s always a lot of fun: the Amazin’ Avenue Offseason Plan Contest—commonly referred to as the AAOP. If you’re unfamiliar, here’s our finalist post from last season’s contest, just so you can familiarize yourself with the format and how things work.
Please note that if you haven’t signed up for a username on the site, you’ll need to do so more than 24 hours before the contest ends, as there is a 24-hour waiting period before a new user can post on the site.
All entries are subject to the official rules, found here.
Before anything else, note that the details below are ENTIRELY OPTIONAL. If you want to do an AAOP without deeper levels of detail, that’s totally valid and your submission will not be penalized in any way. The below is meant to purely be a fun add-on for those of us who are way, way to into this (like myself).
If you’re still interested, we prepared this spreadsheet (the same linked shared previously with salary obligations) that consolidates all player information on contracts, option status, and luxury tax numbers (2026 Player List tab) and provides a roster template for you to use if you choose (2026 Roster Template tab). An example roster – one with basically no additions or subtractions – is provided in the 2026 Roster (Example) tab. This will hopefully provide a starting point to get into some of the more detailed elements of roster construction, such as:
All of this can get complicated, and again is ENTIRELY OPTIONAL. But, if you want to take a stab at the deeper elements of roster construction, this will hopefully provide an avenue to step in in a more guided way. Feel free to leave questions in the comments as well, which we’ll try our best to address as we’re able.