Let YourSportsLeague.com do the hard work for you as you manage your league. No more late nights slaving over schedules, referee assignments, and distributing information to everyone in the league. Because management is centralized on the web, tasks can be easily delegated. Everyone works from the same information.
Scheduling
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 Scheduling engine creates balanced schedules for matchups, home/away, game time, and venues.
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 Ease of use - Add teams, place them in a division, assign field or court slots, and the engine generates the schedule.
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 Save without publishing - Your schedules can be saved before publishing for reviewing by other league officials and for making sure your field usage is satisfactory.
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 Instant publishing – One click and a schedule is published for all to view, with email notification.
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 Fully editable – Once a schedule is created, any game can be edited (to change the date, time, venue, match up, or to add a comment), added, or deleted.
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 Complete control of Byes – Byes are automatically created on the schedule when a division has an odd number of teams. Byes can be modified or deleted as the schedule is modified.
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 Traveling Leagues – Local leagues can assign home fields before the schedule is made, and when the scheduling league creates the schedule, the engine links the field slots to the matchups. This means a huge savings in time for the scheduling league, no longer needing to send out a schedule to every affiliated league to fill in the field slots. It also means saving a lot of time for the affiliated leagues, no longer needing to assign slots to each game by hand. Field or court slots can also be assigned after the schedule is created.
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 Flighting – Teams within a division can be placed into flights to help align teams with comparable strengths.
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Tournaments – A special tournament scheduling engine provides templates for common tournament formats, including round robins, and single and double eliminations. Our tournament scheduler has been used for local, regional, and national championship tournaments.
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Printable Schedules – With a single click schedules can be formatted for printing. Especially useful for tournaments where schedules and results need to be posted in a central location.
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Customized team schedule – One click from the division schedule page and you get a team schedule with field directions included. Perfect to print out and place on the refrigerator.
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Links to Player Stats – If your league keeps player stats, it is easy create a link to them from the division schedule page.
Referee/Umpire Assigning
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Games listed by date and field for assigning – You can quickly assign officials to games on a given date using a drop down list.
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Confirmation – An Email is sent requesting confirmation when the assignment is made, and an email is sent back when the assignment is confirmed or declined. Officials can confirm assignments with a simple click. A confirmation is also indicated on the website.
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Easy access to assignments – an official can log in and click on Current Assignments to see all current assignments.
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Easy access to assignment history – one click and a referee can view all games refereed.
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Game reports – The Referee/Umpire Coordinator can create specialized reports of games refereed. The information can be exported to help you track payments.
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Self-Assignment – A league can optionally allow referee/umpire self-assignment. The Referee/Umpire Coordinator is automatically notified of a self-assignment, and can override it if desired.
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Request/Confirm - A league can optionally allow referee/umpire requests for games. All requests for a game are displayed for the Referee/Umpire Coordinator, who can then select who to confirm for assignment.
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 Referee/Umpire Strength - Officials can be assigned a strength rating that limits which games they can request or self-assign to. The strength ratings also serve as a guide to the assigner.
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 Affiliated Referees - Teams can recruit referees who are required to officiate a minimum number of games during the season. This is a great tool for leagues to insure that games are covered.
Results and Standings
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 Standings are tailored to your specific sport.
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 Automatic Standings – enter results the standings are automatically generated. Standings can be viewed on the division schedule page.
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 Public and Non-Public Standings – You can set an option with each division to either have the standings public or not. If not, then league officers can still view standings to monitor the status of divisions.
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 Team Contacts can enter results – If both team contacts enter results, and they match, then the results are considered final. The match secretary or results secretary can override any results entered by team contacts.
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 Editable Standings Schemes & Rules - A league can create its own standings rules and schemes
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 Printable Standings – Standings can be formatted for printing, either by a single division or a whole competition
General
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 YourSportsLeague.com is a web-based system running 24/7. You access the functionality of the system using your browser from anywhere. All data is centrally located on our server, and backed up daily to provide you with data security.
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 Centralized Data - Since the database is on our server, there is only one version of the schedule, referee assignments, and other information, avoiding confusion. It also means that league officers do not need to convert the data into different formats for various tasks.
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 Auto-email - Anytime a schedule is published or changed, email is sent to the teams (and officials) involved. Emails are also sent to referees notifying them of assignments or changes in assignments.
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 Delegation of Authority - Roles can be assigned to various people:
a. Match Secretary - schedules or edits the schedule of the entire league.
b. Division Match Secretary – Assigned to schedule specific divisions.
c. Referee Coordinator – Assigns referees, manage the referee list, and generate referee reports.
d. Field Referee Coordinator - Can be assigned to specific fields to assign officials
e. Assistant Referee Coordinator - Can perform assorted Referee coordinator tasks
f. Results Secretary – can be assigned to enter scores for specific divisions.
g. Field Coordinator – manages the league’s fields
h. Club Rep – Enters teams for their club and assign team contacts.
i. Team Contact – receives email about the schedule, enters game results and adds practice games for the team.
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 Help - Fully organized Help System to help guide you through the process and answer your questions.
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 Customer Support – We strive to answer any questions you have within 24 hours. We can fulfill special requests (such as shifting a rainout to a new date), usually within 24 hours.
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 Consulting Services – We offer three consulting services:
a. Schedule your league for you
b. Best practices on running your league
c. Custom Development
Call us about pricing.
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 Compatible with online registration systems – We have a published xml format to transfer data from online registration systems to the YourSportsLeague.com servers, eliminating redundant effort.
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 Customized league banner – Your league can have its customized banner on all league specific pages of the website.
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 Access from League Website - A link is provided for easy access to your schedules from your league's website.