Frequently Asked Questions

This is done intentionally to emphasize that in this travel league, your online schedule is a "living, breathing document". The schedule you start the season with is only a starting point. Unlike house leagues, where, except for make-ups of weather postponements, schedules do not usually change, travel teams may agree to schedule changes for reasons other than weather postponements. For example, ENYTB rules allow teams to request postponements for reasons other than weather. Teams are under no obligation to grant such requests but they can if they would like. Teams can also request no harm/no foul cancellations and declare forfeits. Each team's online schedule includes an "Update' link on each of its games that is used to keep your schedule current for all such changes. When these changes are entered, your opponent, the league and your own coaches/players receive an auto-email, notifying you of the change.

Online schedule updating is crucial to keeping the league functioning smoothly for various reasons:

• Players and their families have passwords so that they can check their team's online schedule at any time, knowing with full confidence that the latest schedule information is reflected there.
• By keeping your online schedule updated, you are assured that you and your opponent have a common understanding of when and where the game is to be played. Conversation is easy to misinterpret but this approach forces the change to be recorded in black and white. When an online re-schedule occurs, the schedules for both teams adjust immediately. If you are not in accordance with the change that was entered i.e., you did not agree to the specific change entered, you have the opportunity to contact your opponent to get the matter corrected. The website also creates an audit trail of all changes made to each "original" game. This information can be helpful in resolving any he said she said type disputes that may arise over the course of the season.
• Teams have 7 days after the scheduled date of a game to score it, reschedule it or cancel it. Failure to do any of these will result in a "passed game". A passed game is the same as if the game was never on the schedule in the first place i.e., neither team gets credit for a win even if it was played, and neither team gets a penalty for not playing the game if it was a forfeit. Also, neither team is obligated to reschedule the game as a new game. This is done to prevent teams from accumulating un-played games throughout the season and entering them as forfeit wins near season's end and going from last to first in the standings, as happened in the league more than once prior to the league instituting this rule.

IMPORTANT: All schedule changes must be confirmed with your opponent before being entered into the website and must follow the league protocol for the type of change being made. These protocols are available to members via their online schedules by clicking on the Update link for any game and following the on-screen prompts (these are also called schedule or game management tools).

In addition, depending on what type of standings is being used, the chronological order in which games are listed on a team's online schedule may affect which games are counted in the standings.

Example:

Teams A (home) and B (away) are in a division where the standings methodology requires that they play two games head-to-head. However, they are scheduled to play three times. The standings methodology will count the first two times as they appear chronologically on their schedule. The 3rd game may factor in as a tie-breaker but it would not otherwise count.

Let's say game 1 of this 3 game series is postponed by rain and rescheduled to a date AFTER the original 3rd game. That game should no longer count as a must play game because it will be played last in chronological order. For the STANDINGS to compute correctly, the home
team must postpone the game on the schedule and reschedule it to the later time. If the home team does not reschedule the game, and after the game is played on a later date, merely enters the score in the original date, the game will be recorded out of sequence and your STANDINGS will count the wrong games.

This type of standings methodology is not typically used by ENYTB anymore.