Age Division Meetings This Sunday MAR 2(1) 15/16U Combined at 1:00PM(3) 17/18U Combined at 3:00PMAll ENYTB Age Division meetings are held at the Guilderland Town Library on Rt 20, just west of Rt 155 intersection, on your left as you head west.DIRECTIONS:For those coming from the west, I'd suggest the Thruway to Exit 25. After toll, exit right imme... read more

[11U DIVISION NEWS]
9U-10U-11U-12U Age Divisions ---- ALL registration choices (Team Registration > Registration)and payment must be submitted/received no later than Saturday, March 22nd. Scheduling info is due no later than March 29th. Contact Ed Frye at (518) 356-9089 with scheduling inputs. Play will begin as early as Sunday, April 13th. We want to get the league ... read more

[12U DIVISION NEWS]
9U-10U-11U-12U Age Divisions ---- ALL registration choices (Team Registration > Registration)and payment must be submitted/received no later than Saturday, March 22nd. Scheduling info is due no later than March 29th. Contact Ed Frye at (518) 356-9089 with scheduling inputs. Play will begin as early as Sunday, April 13th. We want to get the league ... read more

[9U DIVISION NEWS]
9U-10U-11U-12U Age Divisions ---- ALL registration choices (Team Registration > Registration)and payment must be submitted/received no later than Saturday, March 22nd. Scheduling info is due no later than March 29th. Contact Ed Frye at (518) 356-9089 with scheduling inputs. Play will begin as early as Sunday, April 13th. We want to get the league ... read more

[10U DIVISION NEWS]
9U-10U-11U-12U Age Divisions ---- ALL registration choices (Team Registration > Registration)and payment must be submitted/received no later than Saturday, March 22nd. Scheduling info is due no later than March 29th. Contact Ed Frye at (518) 356-9089 with scheduling inputs. Play will begin as early as Sunday, April 13th. We want to get the league ... read more

One of the many great benefits ENYTB offers its members is centralized access to post-season play under three different sanctioning bodies: AABC, NABF and PONY. Because of multi-sanctioning, ENYTB is able to send more than 80 teams every year to sanctioned National Championship Tournament Series post-season play. Every age division has access to th... read more

ENYTB Members:Joe Franchini has resigned from the Greenbush-Schodack DevilCats organization and, pursuant to the terms of an agreement he engineered to gain membership in a local rival league, has withdrawn his 17U team from participation in ENYTB.The BOD of the Greenbush-Schodack DevilCats organization has informed ENYTB that it would like to cont... read more

Feb 1 came and went. All inactive teams were deleted. To preserve your rights to player protection for player's on last year's roster, returning teams also need to INITIALIZE their rosters. If you haven't done so you need to do so ASAP!Go to Team Registration > RostersYou will see your player list and there will be a blank check-box next to each n... read more

Members have spoken. Nearly 75% of respondents favor ENYTB's current release system and regulations re: tampering. Not surprisingly, the same respondents also indicated that they believed the ENYTB should fully enforce the current regulations and let the chips fall where they may.For the record, ENYTB has always enforced its regulations re: player procurement but we only get involved when a member is willing to make a formal complaint and can provide direct evidence that tampering has occurred. In every official tampering complaint presented to the league where this was the case, the plaintiff has prevailed (4 cases). Basic Fact: Tampering is running rampant in this league this year. Members are learning months after the fact that their players have been promised a roster position on another member's team. As a result, many members are now being forced to shut down entire teams because they have just learned that they have lost the core of their team to a "predator" member. Listen closely everyone:(1) We CAN NOT have a league where members pirate each other's players.(2) We WILL NOT have a league where members pirate each other's players.And you don't get to define what constitutes tampering. The league's anti-tampering protocols are spelled out in Article 17 of our constitution (available online). Article 16 explains PLAYER PROTECTION (roster from prior year) and TERRITORY RESTRICTION (first time ENYTB players seeking to join a club other than home area club (when one exists)).Those are perhaps the most important two Articles of our Constitution, If you and/or your managers/coaches haven't read those Articles, I suggest you do so very soon.The website now has controls built in that will block teams from adding another member's PROTECTED or RESTRICTED player to its roster w/o a release. All releases must be cleared through the league's new automated release system (Rosters > ADD Player has been extended to automatically detect players that require a release and requires teams to initiate a release request online). NOTE: IF a team initiates a request for a release it has never spoken to that player's current club, it is by definition GUILTY of tampering. Thus, with these new controls, tampering is now very easy to prove. When a club is NOT contacted by anyone requesting prior permission to speak to his players, and receives a request for a player release, the member requesting the release is guilty of tampering, again by definition. Moreover, if a team is asking for a release, it has already stated on the website that the player has agreed to play for them. Thus, if that team never notified and/or requested permission to talk to the player from that player's current club, it is a textbook definition of tampering. And it matters not if the player initiated contact with your organization or vice versa. Elite teams have release exemptions (see Section 16.9) but even they are required to let the player's club know they are interested in one of their players BEFORE they contact that player or immediately after they have been contacted by the player, whichever comes first. In all the years of this league, members have always granted all release requests yet this hasn't even earned them the courtesy of notification from those clubs seeking to take their players. As a result, the "giver" clubs increasingly feel they are being disrespected by the "taker" clubs. It is clear from the emails and phone calls that I'm getting, that this is the year "givers' are going to start saying no to the "takers" in cases where they have never been notified or given permission to others to talk to/recruit their players. In fact, we have had one tampering case this year already (and the plaintiff prevailed) and we have may have another one pending as of this morning. The penalty for tampering is severe:(1) the player can never play for the club that tampered with him. (2) If that club ignores penalty (1), they are out of this league, not just that team, but every team owned by the club, and forever.In 2000 we had a member test our resolve (2 gold teams) and he found out that we are a league of rules. This league is nothing if not flexible in its rules on player procurement and movement. We do everything possible to accommodate the orderly movement of players among our members while giving our clubs sufficient protection to allow them to field teams year after year. This is a difficult balance but one that we have gone to great lengths to craft in our constitution and it is at the heart of the growth, competitiveness and success of this league. Everyone must understand that membership is a two-way street - if you want to partake of the benefits of this league you can't be making it impossible for other members to do the same. The "givers" pay the costs of this league just as the "takers" do. Quite simply: If a club can't bother to follow our player procurement procedures or thinks it doesn't need to, that club is not wanted in this league. If you believe you are in violation of the league's anti-tampering rules, it is never too late to get yourself in compliance. Contact any club that you think you may be in violation with, and get things cleared up. I would like nothing better than for all our clubs to work these matters out among themselves. We want to keep every member we have but we simply cannot permit members to engage in a free-for-all cannibalization of other members. It amazes me that some clubs refuse to contact a fellow member when they have an interest in one or more of its players, even when they know full well that if they follow this protocol, cooperation among members in giving permission for further contact and ultimately granting releases has been 100% in this league. Ed

Dear Club Owners, Club Coordinators, Team Managers and Coaches:After reading this piece on tampering, please write me to voice your opinion on whether you think our league rules on this subject are appropriate. Please make whatever suggestion you like for modification, including the possible elimination of all player restrictions or tampering contr... read more