Enter a valid email address for the league administrator.
The Administrator ID is the email address of the overall league administrator. This email address is used at various points as the recipient of mail messages.
The league administrator can put a hold on the season from here. If anything is placed in this box, then this season will not be visible except in the administration panels.
This is the normal mode that a season is started in. Once you have adjusted the league structure and schedules, clear this text and the season will be visible to all.
Enter a valid email address for the mailbox to receive questions and correspondents.
Users asking questions will generate mail to this address.
Street / City / State / Zip / Phone
Enter the appropriate information for this league.
Enter the appropriate type for this league.
Enter the appropriate divisions to start with. When your initial league is created, it will contain that many divisions with three teams each to start you off. You will then be able to update each division as needed.
Enter the county that this league resides in. This is used for informational use.
Enter the country that this league resides in. This is used for informational use.
The name of your season. Your users will select from a list of visible seasons for your organization. It is best to include the year and type of season (e.g. "2003 Regular Season" or "2003 Fall Ball")
This field indicates the current operating status of your season along with the date that this status expires.
| Trial | Unlimited Administration allowed; only 2 game results per team allowed | |||
| Extended Trial | ||||
| Active | All functions fully operational | |||
| Read-Only | News Updates allowed for 30 more days; all other functions no longer allowed | |||
| Inactive | Only seen by the administrator | |||
| To Be Deleted | About to be permanently deleted | |||
The name of your division.
These fields show the minimum and maximum ages for the division. This is merely informational.
This field contains the number of periods or innings in a normal game. Extra inning and overtime periods will be allowed in additional to whatever is entered in this field.
This field contains the number of minutes in a normal game. It is used to calculate game ending time for various scheduling functions as well as for official assignments & conflict resolution.
You would normally set this parameter once in the in the Season Administration panel for all your divisions. But if needed, you can also set it on the Division Administration panel in order to override the season setting.
If this box is checked, then that team will not be shown in the standings. But you are allowed to schedule games and enter game summaries for games against that team. Use this field in order to schedule games against teams that are not in your league, and yet the game you play against them should be counted in your standings.
Check this box if you want this division to enter game scores. This is the normal mode of operations for InGoodStandings. As game scores are entered, InGS displays the standings with in win/loss order.
If you uncheck this box, the team managers can still enter game highlights for their team. They will just be unable to enter the actual game scores.
Use this option to create a non-competitive division which uses all the other benefits of InGoodStandings (Online schedules, team news, game highlights, communication modules, etc.) for a division that has no need to keep track of the team standings.
This option is usually used by younger divisions that are not yet at a competitive level and don't keep game scores and standings for their teams.
This will display a card section on the game-entry page. You can then enter card penalties with the game information.
The Battery: Tracking Pitchers and Catchers
Use these options to tell InGS if you want to allow your managers to enter pitcher and/or catcher information for your games. If no pitcher/catcher information is to be entered, choose the "none" option.
Battery Format: This defines the format that you want to use to enter your pitcher and catcher information. There are currently two formats allowed:
List Standings in Alpha Order?
Check this box if you want to use list the teams for this division in alphabetical order (instead of ordering them by won/lost PCT). Normally, this box is unchecked and the divisions are listed in the order of the winning PCT.
This option is used for tournaments to just list teams and games played. It is also used for junior leagues that don't keep wins and losses, but do list games played and highlights.
Uncheck this box if you don't want standings kept or shown for this division. Managers will be able to enter game scores and highlights only. When this is unchecked, the only thing that will be seen for this division is the schedules.
This option is usually used by younger divisions that don't yet keep game scores and standings or highlights for their teams.
It is also commonly used to hide the division standings from general view while the initial division structure is being created.
The name of your team.
How to pick a new administrator
Administrators are those people given the authority to modify the features of the League, Season, Division or Team that they are given rights to. An administer can perform ALL functions (game scores, approvals, news, structure changes, schedule changes) at the chosen level as well as all levels below that.
You can become an administrator two ways:
Always consider the correct level to grant someone authority at. This system gives you close control over who can update what
General administrator information
You can change the administrator for any particular Season, Division or Team by clicking the "Pick a New Administrator" button.
You we then see a list of registered users who are known to be associated with your league. Scroll to the person you want and highlight that entry by clicking on it. Then click on the "Use Selected Member" button and that person will appear in your administration page.
If the person you want is not in the list, type any portion of their last name into the space and then click on "Last Name Search". All registered users will be searched.
If the person is still not found, then they must not yet be registered. You can choose to wait until they register to add them as administrators, or you can choose to register them yourself by clicking the "Sign Up a New Member" button.
If Cross-Divisional Play is allowed, then you will be able to schedule games between various divisions within your season. If the box is not checked, only teams within the same division will be allowed to schedule games against each other.
You may choose to display two additional columns in the standings list representing overall wins and losses. This column will display a total of the regular season games and the scrimmage games for each team.
This option only affects the standings display. It does not cause any internal information to be entered or tracked differently.
Points For/Against & Diff Columns
You may choose to display two additional columns in the standings representing "points for" and "points against". These columns will display the total number of points that a team has scored as well as the total number of points scored against this team. You can optionally add the Diff column which will display the difference between Points For and Points Against.
This option only affects the standings display. It does not cause any internal information to be entered or tracked differently.
Your leagu2e has both a long name and a short name.
The long name is usually the full, official name of your league. It is used in most places that your league name needs to be shown.
The short name is shown in places where only limited space is available (reports, listings, etc.).
You should assure that both Long and Short names have been entered for your league.
The pending name contains the desired name for this league. All League name changes are subject to approval. When a league name change is requested through the administration pages, the new name is placed into this pending name field until it is approved.
This represents the number of divisions that you will need for this season. This can be altered later in league maintenance mode, if necessary.
Checking this box will cause this person to removed from the security list at this level. They will no longer have an explicit permissions at the current level. This does NOT remove them from the security lists at other levels. Nor does this, in any other way alter the status of that person.
This column shows the name and email address of each person in the security list.
Checking this box gives that person authority to enter game scores and highlights. Once those games are entered, they must be approved by an "approver" before they become viewable.
Checking this box gives that person authority to approve game scores and highlights that have been entered. When games are initially recorded, they are put into a "pending approval" state until it is approved.
Checking this box gives that person authority to update game schedules.
If you check this box, then the schedules for this season and all the divisions under it are not visible online to anyone except administrators. All others will be notified that the schedules are currently unavailable.
Season, division and team administrators will still be able to view these schedules.
If you check this box, then the schedules for this division are not visible online to anyone except administrators. All others will be notified that the schedules are currently unavailable.
Season, division and team administrators will still be able to view these schedules.
Checking this box will cause language translation links to appear on many InGoodStandings pages. Users will then be able to click on the links to translate the InGoodStandings pages to the selected language.
Checking this box gives that person authority to update the news section.
Checking this box gives that person authority to create advertising records and to move those records in and out of the maintenance zones.
Overall Administration Permission
Checking this box gives that person authority to update the league structure at this level. Note: anyone who is given administrative permission has all other authorities at that level.
This section is used to add new people to your list of authorized people. They must first register their name/email address with InGoodStandings (or, you can register this information for them). Be sure to set your browser to allow InGoodStandings.com to "pop up" new windows.
Click on the "Pick a New Member" button to pop up a selection window. You will then be able to choose from a list of members who are known to be associated with your league. You will also be able to search the entire member database for a portion of the persons last name.
If the person is not yet registered, you can close that selection window and click on the "Sign Up New Member" button. This allows you to register another member. Remember, their password will be emailed to their email address so you won't be able to use that login yourself.
After you have registered the new member, you will then be able to see that person when you select by last name in the selection window (Click on the "Choose Existing Member" button again).
With this option checked InGS will show both a win/loss percentage column (PCT) and a Games Back (GB) column in the Division Standings. The PCT column is calculated as (games won) / (total games).
This option will result in a Points column being displayed in the Division Standings.
The points are calculated using the associated "Win", Loss" and "Tie" fields. You set the number of points that get assigned to each win, loss or tie game. The default points are 2 points for each win, 0 points for a loss and 1 point for each tie.
You have the option of including one or two columns that will be displayed for each game and allowed to be entered into. For baseball, these columns normally represent "Hits" and "Errors". But you have the capability to change the label for these fields, naming them anything you choose.
Only numbers can be entered into these fields.
You can control the order that your standings are displayed. Place a number from 1 to 9 next to any of the listed columns. InGoodStandings will use the order that you specify when displaying the standings.