A funded headcount, under a regime being rewritten as it runs.
The college roster is now a hard-capped, fully-fundable headcount governed by a compensation and eligibility regime being rewritten in real time. This is a rules-and-constraints page, not a valuation: the engine reads the current rules, flags them contested and current-as-of, holds the moving dollars in the Amateur Money Reference so an update re-prices everything downstream, and folds the 34-man full-funding reality into what a roster actually costs. It is the most volatile area of the corpus, and the page treats it that way, because the rules are the constraint the whole college build lives inside.
34 players, all fully fundable.
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.
A constraint map, not a valuation.
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.
Two models run in parallel, under active litigation.
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 college roster is a funded headcount under a regime being rewritten as it runs. The engine reads the current rules, treats them as contested and current-as-of, holds the moving dollars in the Reference so an update re-prices everything, and folds the 34-man full-funding reality into what a roster actually costs, because the rules are the constraint the whole college build lives inside. It reads the eligibility clock as the dual-model, litigation-flagged transition it is, and widens the band on a player near the boundary rather than pretending the outcome is settled.
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.