Season Structure Setup

There are a few different ways you can structure your season. This all depends on how your association is setup. Most associations use a combination of the options. Navigate to Admin - Manage Season - Click on the season you want to set up.

Leagues

If your association does not offer "house league" programming, where at least some of your teams nearly exclusively play against each other, skip this section and continue to the Non-League Teams section.

The concept of a league is a group of teams within the same association that exclusively play each other. They have their own league site and schedule as well as standings. LEAGUES SHOULD NOT BE USED IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCES OTHER THAN HOUSE LEAGUES. Example: House League Under 9, Under 11 etc. To add a League click on Add League. 

Fill out the information and Insert. 

Once your League has been created you are ready to start adding teams to your league. Click Add Team and fill out the information. Make sure you use the League dropdown to put this team into the appropriate League. 

When you have added your teams it will look something like this:

Non-League Teams

If you do not need to set up Leagues for your association, you can simply just add teams. Click Add Team. Fill out the information. Insert. You do not need to use any of the dropdowns unless you would like to setup Team Groups or put your team into one of the other options we will discuss later. (See below) When you are done it will look something like this:

Other Options

There are a few other options for structuring your season including adding Categories and Team Groups. These are located under Admin - Categories & Other Groups.

Categories

A  CATEGORY is something typically used by large organizations (40+ teams) who operate multiple types / levels of programming, or for any organization who operates using multiple "brands". A category creates an actual website, and by default is a part of the main organization - but they can become somewhat isolated from the organization site if desired. For example, if "Category A" and "Category B" have nothing to do with each other, it is possible to setup each Category-level website so that it has nearly no references to the other Category (or to the organization).

A Category website has it's own set of pages, news, sponsors, etc., and it can contain aggregated information from the teams, leagues, or tournaments which belong to the category.

Once a Category is created, then when editing Teams (and Tournaments) within a single season, they can be set to belong to the Category (if all the teams in a single League belong to the same Category, then the League itself will belong to that Category). If a Category has at least one team , league, or tournament in the current season that belongs to it, then the Category also becomes "active" within the current season.

Click Add Category. Enter information and insert. It will look something like this:

Once you start adding teams, you are able to specify that they belong to that Category.

Team Groups

A  TEAM GROUP can help organize teams by creating "fly-outs" containing a list of teams that belong to that group. A Team Group does NOT create a website and cannot have any content or schedules associated with it. A Team Group can also be setup so that it is "unlisted" which means that any teams that belong to that group won't be shown anywhere a list of teams for that group is generated (note that unlisted teams still have a website and their schedules are displayed publicly, they are just harder to find because they aren't automatically listed anywhere).

Click Add Team Group. Enter information and insert. It will look something like this:

Once you start adding teams, you are able to specify that they belong to that Team Group.

Category Groups

If there are a large number of Categories in the site, using  CATEGORY GROUPs can help to keep things organized by creating "fly-outs" to list all the categories within a group. A Category Group does NOT create a website and cannot have any content or shedules associated with it.

League Groups

If there are a large number of Leagues in a season, using  LEAGUE GROUPs can help to keep things organized by creating "fly-outs" to list all the leagues within a group. A League Group does NOT create a website and cannot have any content or schedules associated with it.