Category: Divisions, Leagues & Teams

Your organization probably has some sort of league (or division) structure that you'll need to define before you start creating teams on the web site. The structure can be as simple as just a House and a Travel league or far more complicated with many leagues, sub-divisions, and even sub-sub-divisions if you like.

A simple structure might look like this:

House League
Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
...

Travel League
Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
...

A more complex organization might look like the following:

League 1
Division 1
Subdivision 1
Team 1
Team 2
...
Subdivision 2
Team 1
Team 2
...
Division 2
...
League 2
...

As you can see, you can create a structure of any complexity. If your association plays more than one sport, you might substitute the different sports for the leagues shown above. Likewise, if you're setting up a regional club web site, you might use towns or individual clubs for the leagues and their own leagues as divisions and subdivisions. There's no limit to the complexity of the structures you can create, nor are there any limits on the number of teams you can define within the structures.

Leagues & Divisions

To create leagues, you'll use the Teams > Divisions & Teams menu choice on the Admin menu. When clicked, this choice brings up a league and team listing page that displays the leagues already defined so far. At the top of the page is a link titled "Add a new league/division." Click this link to bring up the League Information form.

Teams

Teams are the heart of your organization. Now that you've defined the league structure of your club as documented above, you can start setting up your teams. To define teams, click the Teams > Divisions & Teams choice on the Admin menu. This will bring up the Team Listing page. This page will show the leagues you've already defined with their teams listed under each. At first, there won't be any teams displayed, of course, but you can click the link titled "Add a new team" to bring up a Team Information form.

Importing Team Settings

You can import team information from a spreadsheet file rather than entering it all by hand using the Information form mentioned above. To do this, you'll need to create a spreadsheet file containing a row for each team and columns across for each piece of information you wish to import. The file you create must be saved as a comma separated value (.CSV) file. This file type can be generated from Excel using the Save As dialog box. To perform the actual import see the link towards the top of the Division & Teams page.