If you look under your Team Menu, you'll see two cool new menu items: Challenge Play and Recent Challenge Games.

I'll talk about the concept here, and then the practical uses in the next post.

The concept here is that you can challenge other teams outside your league to games. This is a bonus feature outside normal league play, but it also has a system where you can have your team ranked among the universe of teams based on your challenge play.

Our goal was twofold: first, we wanted to give players another option for play that opens up play across different leagues, particularly for fun in the Sandbox offseason, but also during the season. And second, it gives you a way to play games and test strategies outside your teams' normal 16-game season.

Your results in challenge games will be kept in a separate scoring category that is completely unrelated to play in your own league. So you'll still compete for the Sandbox Bowl in your league as always, but now you can also try to maximize your challenge score by challenging other teams to games.

More detail in the next post.