FALL BALL SIGN-UP - 2013To: All ENYTB Members As Well As Non-ENYTB Members:Everything you need to know to hook your fall team up with the premier travel baseball league in eastern, upstate New York is provided below. *********************************************************** ENYTB FALL BALL REGISTRATION 2013 ***************************************... read more

Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall...To: All ENYTB Members:All of us at ENYTB thank you for another record year! We set many records this year, including:....a record number of teams (more than 185)....a record number (4) of teams from Canada (Toronto/Montreal) as well as teams from as far away as Syracuse, NY, western MA, VT and Kingston, NY....a record n... read more

OPEN Tournament Sign-Up - LAST MAN STANDING - All AgesENYTB is offering its Last Man Standing tournaments to all teams, including non-members and at all ages, during the latter part of July. These tournaments are listed on the Master Tournament Schedule Board (first item on Tournament menu).This a for fun, end-of-the season tournament, for low silv... read more

Voorheesville Blackbirds Win Class C, Section II Championship!Congratulations to Manager Kyle Turski and ENYTB member Voorheesville Blackbirds for repeating as Class C Champion last night at Joe Bruno. The Blackbirds defeated the Ft. Plain Hilltoppers 14-4 and are 2-0 in Class C Championship games since joining ENYTB two years ago.Having lost five ... read more

Special Pricing Available Now On Summer Tournaments At Cooperstown Baseball World (CBW) - Local Teams 12u-16UMembers often ask me if I know of any local tournaments they can take their team to. I would advise everyone still looking to enter their team in a local summer tournament to check out a special offer just announced by CBW that includes sign... read more

Message To Parents & Coaches:ENYTB Policy re: CUTs/RELEASEsENYTB has adopted a new system for regulating intra-league player movement. Gone are releases per se. Instead of placing restrictions on individual players in terms of moving from one ENYTB team to another, ENYTB now restricts individual teams in terms of the maximum number of players they ... read more

Cut Players - "Bullet-Proof" Revisions ComingRecently, some parents (and some managers) have exerted significant pressure on teams to "FREE" CUT players, thereby circumventing ENYTB's effort to fairly manage player movement within the league via its new RFA CAP system. Unfortunately, many have been successful in achieving their aims. To ignore thes... read more

HANDOUTS FROM 2/24 MEETING (Topic #3):Rosters & Player Eligibility CriteriaENYTB has its own player eligibility criteria for regular season play as does each sanctioning body. Similarly, each sanctioning body has additional eligibility criteria for tournament play. Each sanctioning body also has its own official rosters for collecting these data. E... read more

HANDOUTS FROM 2/17 MEETING (Topic #2):Customized Scheduling &Rules Governing Allowable Schedule ChangesThe hallmark of a quality travel league, regardless of sport, is balanced competition, customized scheduling, schedule reliability and abundant post-season tournament opportunities. ENYTB feratures the best of all four! BALANCED COMPETITION - Nobody wants to be in a league where games are lopsided most of the time and/or where teams frequently cancel games at the last minute. With its Gold, Hi Silver and Lo Silver Divisions, as well as cross-divisional and cross-age play options, ENYTB long ago mastered the art of providing teams with diverse and competitively balanced regular season schedules, regardless of where a team might fall on the competitive spectrum. (See Handout #2 below.)CUSTOMIZED SCHEDULING - ENYTB has offered customized scheduling since its inception. Teams can specify up to 30 factors in limiting how they are scheduled, including strength-of-schedule, alluded to above. Every match-up is selected after a careful examination of all factors for both teams. We invest three months into the collection of scheduling inputs and the careful development of custom schedules for every ENYTB team. (See Handouts #1 and #2 below.)SCHEDULE RELIABILITY - What good is a perfect schedule if your opponents are postponing and/or canceling the majority of the games on your schedule? In the spring of 2011, ENYTB redesigned its rules governing allowable schedule changes by teams after the league master schedule is officially released. RunMyLeague.Com (RML), the owner of the website solution used by ENYTB, fully automated these rules via a tray of "smart" icons linked to each scheduled game. Ever since, schedule oversight, control and enforcement has been fully automated via the website. In the new system's first year of operation, those teams who could not attain a reasonable degree of reliability were easily identified and were told to improve their reliability or not come back. Those who refused to pay their fines had their memberships terminated. As a result of these changes, schedule reliability has improved dramatically throughout the league in 2011 and 2012. ENYTB's schedule reliability is now second to none. (See Handouts #3-#6 below.)Customized Scheduling, Balanced Competition and Schedule Reliability are the main topics of today's meeting. SCHEDULE RELIABILITY RULES - What schedule changes are allowable and under what conditions is one of the main subjects of the handouts provided below. It is important that every team understand these rules. Failure to follow these rules is costly. (See Handouts #3-8 below.)Before getting to the rules, it is important to understand that every transaction under ENYTB's schedule management system begins with direct communication between the two parties. CARDINAL RULE Teams are NOT allowed to independently change anything on their schedule w/o first directly communicating the change to their opponent. Definition: Direct communication means in person or over the phone (not email alone because there is no guarantee nor way to prove, that the intended recipient actually received and read the message).Also, there are three general types of schedule transactions in terms of their underlying protocol:(1) Those that do not require Team B's approval, only that Team A notify Team B prior to a certain deadline and to enter the change to the website before the same deadline;(2) Those that require Team A to obtain its opponent's approval (Team B) prior to a certain deadline and to enter the request to the website before the same deadline; and,(3) Those that require Team A to request approval from the League Admin prior to a certain deadline. NOTE: Type 1 changes can not be entered to the website until Team A has communicated the change to Team B. NOTE: Type 2 changes can NOT be entered to the website until Team A has obtained verbal approval from its opponent, Team B. NOTE: Type 3 changes (there are two) require approval from the League Admin. Each type 3 change requires a slightly different protocol. A) Weather Postponement - Team A informs his opponent of a Weather Postponement as soon as it is known and then reports it to the website. League Admin checks WP requests on a daily basis. If the day of the WP corresponds to bad weather the request is approved. If not, further investigation is warranted. B) Admin Cancellations - Team A is required to communicate all AC requests to the League Admin by phone or in person, and then, if approved by the League Admin, enter the request to the website. League Admin checks for AC requests via the website several times each day.W/o further adieu, here are the slides for today's presentation: CLICK HERE to see an overview of ENYTB's customized scheduling process; CLICK HERE for an overview of the team availability information collected from all ENYTB teams prior to scheduling; CLICK HERE for an overview of ENYTB's rules governing Administrative Cancellation Requests and Weather Postponement Requests; CLICK HERE for an overview of ENYTB's rules governing requests for No Harm No Foul Cancellations and Non-Weather Postponements;CLICK HERE for an overview of ENYTB's rules governing requests by home teams for changes to start times and home fields; CLICK HERE for an overview of ENYTB's rules re: Fines & Penalties For PASSED games and FORFEITS CLICK HERE for a summary of ENYTB's scheduling rules in terms of their time limits as well as general protocol info; and, CLICK HERE for another summary of the basics underlying ENYTB's schedule management protocols..