Franchise (template)

Franchise Seasons Workflow

Workflow version: FRANCHISE-SEASONS-2026-09-01.06

Status: Active

Validated against: TheBrain 15.0.618

Table dialect: TheBrain legacy Markdown tables — no separator rows

Formatting Rules — TheBrain Legacy Markdown (Mandatory)

This brain uses TheBrain’s legacy Markdown table dialect.
Do not insert a separator row beneath any table header. A row such as |---|---|---| is invalid in this brain.
Do not insert a blank row between a heading and its table.
A continuous table must remain continuous: do not insert ordinary blank lines inside it, because TheBrain may render the content after the blank line as a second table with different sizing.
Never represent a historical gap with a pipe-only row or an internal blank line. Preserve the gap semantically through the omitted year(s), and document the gap outside the table if needed.
Begin each table immediately with its header row, followed immediately by data rows.
Every data row must contain the same number of pipe-delimited cells as its header.
Validate the rendered result after writing; do not rely on raw pipe syntax alone.

Standard Structure

Apply this workflow to a franchise thought, not a team-season thought.
Create or reuse one child thought per season shown in the source Team column.
Preserve historical names, alternate spellings, meaningful distinctions, and source anomalies.
Preserve unrelated notes, links, attachments, and hierarchy.

Standard Table

Combine all season tables into one chronological table.
Include one header row with exactly: Year, Team, League, W, L, Stats.
Insert the heading ## Franchise Seasons directly above the table.
Keep a single Stats column containing an external StatsCrew link.
Do not include Roster or attendance columns in the core table.
Keep attendance in a separate optional ## Attendance section.
Preserve historical gaps by omitting the missing seasons without splitting the table.
Leave W/L blank when no record is available.

Attendance Table

Insert ## Attendance directly above the Attendance table.
Use exactly one header row: Year, Attend (Total), AVG (per game).
Do not use a second header row or a separator row.
Do not insert an internal blank line between attendance rows, including around the 1942–1946 gap.
Ensure every attendance row has exactly three cells.

Search and Identity Safeguards

Search before creating thoughts, links, types, or tags.
Verify exact identity before connecting records.
Reuse existing thought types; never create duplicate types.
Preserve the user’s type-list order and custom thought order.
Document duplicate, fractured, incomplete, or ghost source records.

Internal Links

Preserve existing working brain:// links exactly.
Generate new internal links only with TheBrain’s link generator.
Never guess, manually construct, or edit internal links.
If a link cannot be generated or verified, leave the cell plain text and report it.

Graph Relationships

Verify or create each season thought as a child of the franchise.
Verify or create the exact season-league thought and link it as parent of the season thought.
Add jump links only between consecutive displayed seasons within a continuous block.

Resource URLs

Treat source URLs as evidence, not automatically authoritative classification.
Check existing attachments before adding StatsCrew URLs.
Keep the source URL in the franchise table and attach the same URL to its matching season thought.
Preserve unrelated attachments.

Classification

Apply the existing Team - In Progress tag to each season thought.
Do not create a duplicate tag or type.

Versioning

Each active workflow displays a version identifier near the top:

WORKFLOW-CODE-YYYY-MM-DD.##

Increment the final two digits for each substantive revision. Update the date for a later revision. Cosmetic edits may be recorded without incrementing the revision.

Completion Checklist

[ ] Searched before creating or linking records.
[ ] Verified exact team-season and league-season identities.
[ ] Confirmed season thoughts are children of the franchise.
[ ] Confirmed league-season thoughts are parents of season thoughts.
[ ] Combined tables, inserted headings, and preserved gap years by omission.
[ ] Confirmed legacy Markdown format for TheBrain 15.0.618: no separator rows.
[ ] Confirmed no blank lines occur inside a continuous table.
[ ] Confirmed each table has one header and equal-width rows.
[ ] Confirmed internal links with the generator.
[ ] Checked attachments before adding URLs.
[ ] Added required tags without duplicate creation.
[ ] Added jump links only within continuous season blocks.
[ ] Preserved unrelated content and documented unresolved anomalies.
[ ] Reported unresolved items explicitly.

Archive and Maintenance

When this workflow is retired or materially replaced, preserve the original thought and rename it using:

Franchise (template) — Archive — vX.Y — YYYY-MM-DD

Link the archived workflow to the active replacement with a jump link.
Update the workflow index whenever a workflow is created, renamed, archived, or materially revised.
Verify every internal link before relying on it.

Internal brain-link rule (global)

Preserve existing working internal brain:// links exactly; do not rewrite them.
Never manually construct, guess, edit, or infer a brain:// URL.
For new internal links, call TheBrain’s thought-link URL generator for the exact thought and copy the returned URL exactly.
If generation fails, leave the item plain text and report it; do not substitute another format.

Target Thought Metadata Rule

Never overwrite, reorder, or insert metadata before existing target-thought content.
When processing a target thought, preserve all existing notes exactly and append processing metadata after the existing content.
Use this appended format:

### Processing Metadata

Processed with: Template name and version
Review date: YYYY-MM-DD
Brain version: TheBrain version

Do not move metadata to the top for convenience or readability unless the user explicitly requests that change.