A funded headcount under a regime being rewritten.
The roster limits, revenue-share and Title IX, and the Five-for-Five eligibility clock.
Roster limits replace scholarship equivalencies.
Under the House settlement, effective July 2025, the old scholarship-equivalency caps are gone, and each sport runs under a roster limit instead. Division I baseball is capped at 34 players, all of whom may be fully funded, replacing the old 11.7-equivalency limit spread across a much larger roster. This is the load-bearing college roster fact for baseball.
Division I baseball is a hard 34-man cap, all fully fundable, replacing the old 11.7 equivalencies spread across 40-odd players. That single change raised the real cost of a college roster, and the roster engine builds to the 34 and folds the full-funding reality into the cost. A hard-capped, fully-fundable headcount of 34: the load-bearing college roster fact for baseball.
Illustrative engine read on the real House-settlement roster regime (the 34-man fully-fundable cap replacing the 11.7-equivalency limit, the raised roster cost, the thinner lower-division structures). Composite figures flagged v0 and current-as-of.
Revenue-share, opt-in, and Title IX.
The revenue-share pool, the opt-in choice, and Title IX shape how a baseball program can actually fund its 34. The read is a constraint map, not a valuation: what the program is allowed and likely to spend, held current-as-of, not a dollar figure presented as settled.
Baseball's slice of the revenue-share pool is small, the opt-in is effectively mandatory for power programs, and Title IX shapes how the 34 get funded. Together they are the constraint map inside which a baseball program funds its roster, held current-as-of and read as rules, not prices. A constraint map, not a valuation: what a program is allowed and likely to spend, held current-as-of.
Illustrative engine read on the real funding constraints (the revenue-share pool and baseball's small slice, the opt-in choice, Title IX and equivalency considerations). Composite figures flagged v0 and current-as-of.
The eligibility clock, Five-for-Five, in transition.
The eligibility clock is a live, dual-model constraint in transition. The outgoing four-seasons-in-five model and the incoming Five-for-Five model run in parallel during the changeover, under active antitrust litigation, so the engine reads the current rule, flags the litigation risk on a player near the boundary, and carries the confidence accordingly.
Two eligibility models run in parallel during the transition, under active antitrust litigation, so a player near the boundary carries a wider band and a litigation flag. The engine reads the current rule rather than guessing the outcome, and treats the draft-and-return as the outside option it is. A dual-model clock in transition, litigation-flagged: the engine reads the current rule and widens the band.
Illustrative engine read on the real eligibility clock in transition (the outgoing four-in-five and incoming Five-for-Five models in parallel, the antitrust litigation risk, the draft-and-return outside option). Composite figures flagged contested and current-as-of.
The engine reads the current rules, holds the moving dollars in the Reference, and folds the 34-man reality into what a roster costs.
Read the rules. Fold them into the cost.
Funding and Scholarships makes the House-settlement structure legible as constraints, the 34-man fully-fundable cap, the revenue-share and Title IX map, and the Five-for-Five clock in transition, all flagged contested and current-as-of and held in the Reference so an update re-prices the whole college build.