Author: League Time
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What to Look For in the Best Youth Sports League Management Software
You’ve been through the registration chaos. You’re a victim of the parent emails about schedule conflicts. You have experienced a volunteer burn out mid-season because the administrative load was too heavy. If your board is finally ready to install specific software, so be it. However, not every platform is created equal, and the wrong platform…
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Why Your Sports League Spreadsheet Template Is Working Against You
You have the best of intentions. A clean sports league spreadsheet template, color-coded tabs and possibly even some formulas that you’re proud of! However, during the course of the registration season to game day, things went haywire. There was an error where a parent mailed in an incorrect version. Some funds went missing. A cell…
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5 Sports Scheduling Mistakes Ruining Your Season and How to Fix Them
You’ve got teams registered, fields confirmed, and volunteers lined up. After that, the timetable goes out the window and everything goes awry. Double-booked fields. Families receiving late change notification. Referees who are on-site to the incorrect location. Sound familiar? Poor scheduling will not only cause participant frustration; it will also cause a loss of man-hours.…
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Single vs. Double Elimination Brackets: Which One Actually Fits Your Tournament?
After having secured the venue, confirmed the teams, you’ve got the big question on your mind that even veteran organizers get wrong: Single or double elimination? Easy to say, but the selections can cause teams to go into a rage, schedules to get thrown out of whack, or players to hit the road home after…
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How Sports Roster Verification Software Stops Roster Fraud Cold
You’ve seen it happen. A team shows up with a player who aged out of the division months ago—or a ringer from another club in the vicinity! As soon as it is found you have lost your credibility, coaches are angry and the bracket is blown. One of the most disheartening challenges in running an…
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Everything Coaches Need to Know About Youth Basebacall Pitch Count Rules
Young pitchers get hurt when nobody’s counting. Not because coaches don’t care, but because of the fact that many youth baseball pitch count rules are hidden in the rules books that nobody reads during the season. You are managing rosters, schedules, fielding parent emails, etc. All of that somewhere, you are supposed to keep track…
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Youth Sports Coach Onboarding
You are closing registration, have the field permit, and a list of kids who are ready to play. However, there is one problem, you don’t have a coaching staff. This can be a stressful situation. But, don’t rush to fill in this position without conducting proper vetting. Youth sports coach onboarding is not a process…
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How to Design an Unbiased and Transparent Youth Team Drafting Process
Drafting players to youth teams shouldn’t be a complicated process. Every season, the same complaints are raised by commissioners and player registrars: coaches favored certain kids, the evaluation was biased, there was a conflict of interest, etc., and it wasn’t discovered until after rosters were made public. It is a real thing that is frustrating.…
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5 Ways to Reduce Administrative Burnout for Youth League Volunteers
You signed up to help kids play sports. You didn’t sign up to be hooked up with all those emails, schedules and roster issues at 11 p.m. on Tuesday. Yet here you are. You are a league commissioner, board member, or league secretary, and you are well aware of the responsibility placed on your shoulders…
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How to Start a Youth Sports League Without Losing Your Mind
You had the idea. Maybe it was a conversation with another parent at a park, or a gap you noticed in your community, kids with energy and nowhere to channel it. So you decided to start a youth sports league. Now you’re staring at a blank notebook wondering where on earth to begin. This happens…
