Any team owner, manager, coach or contact person reading this message for the first time i.e., did not receive it via email, should inform me by email. We want to ensure that the new integrated email function is sending to all individuals linked to ENYTB teams active in teh 2006 season.---------------------------------------------------------------... read more

[15U DIVISION NEWS]
* Ed is working on the schedules. Soon you should begin seeing them increase in size on a daily basis. Remember - no game is official until Ed is completely done.* Coaches - As soon as the printer functionality of the website is fixed you will be able to get a AABC roster printed. Then you will need to get parent and player signatures, make seve... read more

Each year the Shoreham Indians baseball program (LI, NY) brings its teams to Cooperstown for games on Doubleday Field and contacts our League for competitively balanced opponents. In addition, this year we have an additional slot, courtesy of Fran Scarlatta's Latham Hurricanes 16 team. If you are interested in reserving any of these slots for you... read more

Subject: [ENYTB]Upload your logo to ENYTB websiteMessage: Now that I have this new tool I guess I'm going to wear it out. Seriously, I can't believe I waited this long to build this.I would like to bring another new website feature to your attention.It's called "My Website" and Nick Colavito of the NYCD Knights has already taken advantage of it. Go... read more

This new email tool works directly off the info collected in our League Directory (Contact Info). Thus, League ADMINs can now direct email to any group of owners, managers and coaches they choose by checking a few simple boxes. Tools/Contact Info - clickSend Email (then read blue menu bar for further options)It is vitally important for communicatio... read more

Three new exciting additions will be making their way to the website this week or are there already. (A) Sometime later today, our Roster function will be made available to all teams once again. Note: The link has been moved. Many of you were unable to find registration and rosters, so we have moved them from the Tools menu to the MAIN menu and we... read more

[16U DIVISION NEWS]
Team registration closed April 7. All money was due at that time. (We will accept late registrations through Friday, APR 21.) About 10% of activated teams still have not paid. In some cases, teams have paid their base fee but not their tournament eligibility fees and in other cases, teams have not paid anything. Scheduling in these divisions will begin this weekend. It takes me about one month to custom schedule 3,000 plus games. I don't answer the phone during this period. I didn't answer it very much last week. It is impossible for me to schedule and answer the phone. FYI - League Information Food-chain: Where do you begin? 1) Read the website. If you enjoy this League and want to see it continue, you have to do your part. a) FAQb) Playing Rulesc) Website Helpd) Welcomee) League Intro I did but I couldn't find what I was looking for. 2)Every team has an owner rep. Call him to see if he knows. What if they don't know? 3) Every team has a division coordinator and many also have a division director (they are posted in the Contact info Directory). They are you next point of contact. If owner rep does the research, instead of the team, he educates himself and can help his other teams with same question. If you enjoy this League and want to see it continue, you MUST avoid the urge to call me first on general questions. Use your DC/DD first. That is why they are there. I did but they didn't know the answer either. 4) If your DC/DD can not help you, they can contact me and get back to you. By them getting the answer to your question, they can answer the next team that asks the same question. What if I could not contact my DC/DD? 5) As a last resort you may contact any Board member you wish or email me. People have got to get used to the idea that we have an information structure in place to help. I can not schedule the entire league while answering every first year coach's questions. Prior to Apr 7 I was available to all of you. That time has come and gone. OK, what happens on Friday? 1) Registrations close. This means no new teams added after this point. 2) Division structure is created - see 15U for example of what this looks like. When this is done, I will email the League and give you 48 hours to find discrepancies. Several teams did NOT elect any tournament eligibility this year. They paid the $300 registration fee. There teams will be AABC/NABF registered, their games will count in standings used to award berths, and their players will be eligible to be drafted. However, their team will NOT be eligible for and sanctioned tournament berths. If you paid $300 only, this includes you. I don't want any negative surprises at the end. To be eligible for the sanctioned tournaments at the end you must contribute to the cost of hosting these tournaments (we expect to spend $25,000 this year hosting 11 sanctioned tournaments e.g., umps, baseballs and other incidentals). If you meant to be tournament eligible, check your invoice and see if any eligibility fees were selected and paid. If not, and it was an oversight, inform me immediately by email and get your check in. Division structure is derived from your tournament eligibility choices. There is no going back after Friday. 3) Pre-opening weekend games - these are the first games I schedule. They will be know sometime next week. These games are mostly in the 13-14 age divisions (older players are consumed with schoolball in early May). Thus, if you want to play before opening weekend - YOU MUST HAVE YOUR EARLY TEAM AND FIELD AVAILABILITY IN THE WEBSITE BY THIS WEEKEND. 4) Opening Weekend - Next I set-up opening weekend - if you want to play OW, I must have your OW team availability by this weekend. I should have your OW home field availability in case we have an overflow of demand. 5) Rest-of-season MUST PLAY GAMES - By the 1st of May I will be ready to these games - thus, EVERYONE MUST HAVE ALL FIELD AND TEAM AVAILABILITY ENTERED TO THE WEBSITE BY MAY 1st at the latest. Mark Musto is collecting field availability info. You enter team availability yourself. Any questions? Contact your owner rep and/or DC/DD. 6) Extra Games - many of request more games than are required by our berth competition. We schedule as many games for you as you wish, provided we have opponents to match you up with. This is the final layer of the scheduling process. Nothing additional (beyond step 5) is required from you for this. In general, things are about on schedule but this is where the rubber hits the road! And remember, as I schedule, the games show on your schedule, but they don't mean anything. Some games may change several times before the schedule is finalized. Last year we had a member that sent a new schedule to his team every day because he noticed the schedule kept changing. Finally he quit because he couldn't keep up with the schedule changes. Amazing. But there are several people like him every year. YOUR SCHEDULE MEANS NOTHING UNTIL I DECLARE ALL SCHEDULES OFFICIAL. Which will be: (i) Next week for pre-OW games;(ii) the end of APR for OW games; and,(iii) mid to late May for post-OW games. All announcements will be made on the website and through email.

[13U DIVISION NEWS]
Team registration closed April 7. All money was due at that time. (We will accept late registrations through Friday, APR 21.) About 10% of activated teams still have not paid. In some cases, teams have paid their base fee but not their tournament eligibility fees and in other cases, teams have not paid anything. Scheduling in these divisions will... read more

Please read your respective Division News Boards (located on your Team Home Page and can be accessed from Team Home/Communications) for the current status of League Registration/Scheduling for the upcoming 2006 season. Owners can access the Division News Boards for any of their teams directly from their Owner Home Page.

[22U DIVISION NEWS]
Team registration closed April 7. All money was due at that time. (We will accept late registrations through Friday, APR 21.) About 10% of activated teams still have not paid. In some cases, teams have paid their base fee but not their tournament eligibility fees and in other cases, teams have not paid anything. Scheduling in these divisions will... read more