Archive for February, 2008

25
Feb

Score Reporting

Score reporting is a big part of Athleague. Without it, standings don’t get updated, playoffs don’t get scheduled, and teams can’t keep track of who they need to beat.

But we understand that score reporting isn’t always fun, especially when you have to enter the scores for a bunch of games. So, when we first built score reporting as a “per game” feature, we quickly realized we needed to make it easier for admins.

And that’s exactly what we did. Now, you can report the scores for many games on the same page. Click on “Games to Report” on the left toolbar, and it’ll take you to our spiffy new score report page.

You can use the calendar to pick the day for which you want to report scores. Or, you can choose which league you want and enter all the outstanding scores for that league. This way, no matter how you keep track of results, you can update them to Athleague from the same page in minutes.

14
Feb

Welcome University of Pennsylvania

So Penn showed us some Valentine’s Day love today. They just agreed to be the first school officially signed on to use Athleague to run their intramural sports. We’ve been running a trial during the current IM basketball season, and apparently they liked what they saw.

We’ll be getting situated during the soccer season and the rest of the school year and begin switching over from Penn’s current, paper-based system to Athleague. By the summer, Penn’s IM and club sports will be fully online, saving Penn time and money.

Much thanks to Dave Anderson, Mike Reno, and Ryan Buries for having faith in us. You guys won’t regret it. :)

12
Feb

Divisions

We just added the divisions feature today. These work just like divisions do in the NFL or NBA. You can put teams in various divisions for scheduling or other purposes. Then, if you want, you can use these to make playoff scheduling easier. For example, the top x seeds can automatically advance to the playoffs from each division, if that’s how your league works.

This is especially helpful for grouping teams that play on the same day in larger leagues. Say you have 50 teams that play once a week, Monday through Friday. You can put 10 teams in 5 divisions, one for each day. This makes scheduling much easier and helps you keep track of which teams play when.