Automatically moves the forward with the highest faceoff rating to center position in each line.

Automatically places left-handed players on right wing (RW) and right-handed players on left wing (LW) for better one-timer positioning. Also applies to defense pairs.

When enabled, all optimization modes (CHARA, line optimizer, web workers) will ignore salary cap violations and allow any team composition regardless of salary cost.

Sets how many parallel workers CHARA uses in tournament phase. Takes effect on next CHARA start.

When enabled, pressing Play first runs a chain-by-chain Stacksmith Lineup pass to produce a strong starting lineup, then hands it off to CHARA for refinement. Hard custom rules (must include / must exclude players, team and nationality counts) are honored throughout. If the seed cannot satisfy hard rules, CHARA starts without it.

When CHARA stagnates and swaps a weak line with a StackSmith recommendation, this timeout controls how long CHARA tries to recover from a salary cap violation before restoring the previous lineup. Set higher for more time to fix cap issues.

When enabled, Stacksmith counts QUICK DRAW X-Factor score only when the player is at center and has enough faceoffs.

When off, must-include is not pre-placed: that card stays in the pool, and each candidate line gets a bonus (below) for still-needed required players. When on, the old behavior: place and lock early.

When off, excluded players are removed from the pool (hard). When on, they stay in the search pool; each time they appear on a line candidate, that line’s rank is reduced by the penalty. Final lineup still cannot contain them (candidates with excluded cards are skipped).

When enabled, optimizer modules are limited by your S1/S2/S3/S4/S5 XP token budgets and reject lineups that exceed them. When disabled, XP token counts are ignored.

Upgrade costs are cumulative per card tier (1 + 2 + 3 + ...). Example: 80→85 costs 15 tokens total.