Who's IN ? Who's OUT ?

With many amateur sports leagues, there is usually one or two people acting as a coach or the responsible person for the team. One of the most time consuming duties is figuring out who is going to be at the game to see whether it should be re-scheduled or cancelled, or knowing that you have to get spares to fill in.

Now, how do you track that people are coming to the game before the actual game starts? Welcome to Game Attendance Reminders


To get to the Game Attendance Reminders screen below

1. Login
2. Goto your Team page
3. Click on "Team Admin"

These are broken into 2 categories below :
 
Game Reminder : These are emails sent out 24 hrs before game time to make sure that you have not forgotten about the game. These are also for people, who never visit the site to check the schedule.

Game Attendance Reminder : These are emails sent out 48 hrs in advance and look like the image below


If you click the Count me IN / OUT link it will update your status on the web site automatically.

To see who has responded to the game attendance reminders, when you log in to your team site you will see a new hyperlink under Upcoming Games, like the image below.


And click the Game Attendance link will take you to the full list of players who are IN or OUT.

NOTE: You can also update your status on the screen below anytime.


In this example, you can see 2 players are IN and 2 players are out, and 1 has not responded yet.

Hopefully, this feature will make team management that much easier.

Manage Team Roles and Permissions

If you need to change a persons role, to say a Team Admin, or add them as a Team Statistics Keeper, then you can do so by going to :

1. Goto your Team Page
2. Then click on "Team Admin"
3. Then click on "Players and Team"
4. Then select the person's name
5. Then click the checkbox for TEAM STATISTICS KEEPER and TEAM ADMIN
6. Then click Save.

Now the next time the person logs in, they will have their new permissions set up.

Check the screen shot below for more details

Email Your League

Sometimes you have the need to email certain members of your league to notify them about a particular event or reminder. We have added an email league option under :

League Administration > Players > Email League

You can now target emails to all Fans, Coaches, Team Admins, Team Statistic Keepers and Team Members or any combination.

Check the screenshot below to see it in action.

Filter Your Player Lists and Copy to Excel

As your league grows with more and more players (fans, coaches, team admin, stats keepers), you need an easy way to find them. We have recently added a filter option to sort by roles. Have a look at the screenshot below.




After you have filtered your list you can click the "Copy to Clipboard" icon, also in the screenshot above, then open Micrsoft Excel or Word or any other program and paste the filtered list into that program.

How to Use the Events Calendar

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Add / Minus Points in Standings Calculation

The standings are first sorted by the Points column. These points are dynamically calculated based on your League Scoring Options.

But sometimes you need to modify the Points because you want to either add or subtract points from a team in a given season.

This could be because of penalties against the team, or rewarding the team for their actions.

Now you can do this when you enter a score in for a game.

Notice the +/- Misc Points hyper link. Clicking on the link will take you to the next screenshot.
This screen lists all the miscellaneous points you have given to a team in the current season/division. It is advisable to provide a comment so you do not forget what why you gave the points.

Now when you go back to the Standings page, there should be an extra MP column (Miscellaneous Points). These points will be added to the total Points and the Standings will be sorted accordingly.

Tweaking Your Schedules

Ok, so you have just generated a bunch of schedules and you need to tweak it a bit. Maybe some games need to be moved to another day.
Or maybe you need to move a bunch of games to a new location. Or maybe you need to reschedule a block of games that could not be scheduled in the first place.

There are few options at your disposable to accomplish this.


Whether you are in the Generate screen or the Manage Schedules screen (see above for a screenshot)



You will notice that you can "right click" on the grid, whether you are on a spefici day, or time slot, just right click and you will be presented with a menu.



Move Selected Games to Another Day
This option allows you to bulk move games to another day, while preserving the time slots


Change Selected Game Locations
This option allows you to bulk move games to another location.


Reschedule Games
This option will ask you to pick a new date or the same date, and a new location. If there is a conflict, it will not schedule the games. You can only use this option when you "Generate" games, because after you import them, it will only import games that could be scheduled.