Minutes & Handouts For Age Division Meetings: 22U and UnlimitedHardcopy of the files listed below will be distributed to all in attendance: CLICK HERE for a summary of ENYTB team championships in AABC, PONY and NABF sanctioned national championship tournament series for 2010. CLICK HERE for an overview of reasons for choosing ENYTB as your travel ... read more

ENYTB Names Rotterdam Rangers' Mike Saccocio Its First Ever Manager Of The Year ...Mike Saccocio, manager of the 2010 Rotterdam Rangers 16U team was presented with two prestigious ENYTB awards at yesterday's league meeting. First, league President Ed Frye presented Mike with the traditional ENYTB World Championship plaque, to commemorate his team's... read more

Minutes & Handouts For Age Division Meetings: 13-15U and 16U-18UDate: Sunday, Feb 13th, 2011Place: Waterford-Halfmoon High SchoolMeetings Began: 11:00AM for 13-15 and 2:30PM for 16-18.Meetings Adjourned: 1:30PM and 4:00PMLeague Officials In Attendance:Ed Frye: President & League DirectorRick Miller: Vice-President (Excused Absence)Matt Terry: Membe... read more

Minutes & Handouts From Age Division Meeting: 8U-12UDate: Saturday, Feb 5th, 2011Place: Waterford-Halfmoon High SchoolMeeting Began: 2:00PMMeeting Adjourned: 4:15PMLeague Officials In Attendance:Ed Frye: President & League DirectorRick Miller: Vice-PresidentMatt Terry: Members CouncilSharon Montagne: Administrative AssistantMembers in Attendance: Approximately 50A 14 page handout was distributed to all in attendance: CLICK HERE for a summary of ENYTB team performance in sanctioned national championship tournament series in 2010. CLICK HERE for summary of ENYTB rule/policy changes in 2011. CLICK HERE for an overview of entire ENYTB program. CLICK HERE for summary of information and functionality available via ENYTB website. CLICK HERE for a detailed one page guide to the most widely used website functions, complete with url. CLICK HERE for team checklist re: activation, registration, rosters and custom scheduling. CLICK HERE for a one page summary of everything there is to know about ENYTB's online roster management system. CLICK HERE for flowchart of decision logic for determining a player's league status and whether he needs a release to sign with your team. CLICK HERE for a detailed breakdown of current registration numbers and how these numbers affect custom scheduling i.e., depending on number of teams in your division and adjacent levels, there can be a trade-off between strength-of-schedule and schedule diversity. When this is the case, preference is given to schedule diversity. Thick lines denote likely path for out-of-division opponents and thin lines denote opponents of last resort. CLICK HERE for an overview of the FIVE sanctioned national championship tournament series available via ENYTB. CLICK HERE for overview of ENYTB's new 2-in-1 system for qualifying for advancement in AABC, PONY and NABF sanctioned national championship tournament series. CLICK HERE for overview of ENYTB's CABA/GSA World Series Qualifiers, CABA Xtra and CABA/GSA Triple Play option. Also includes a direct buy-in option to CABA's National Championship tournament. CLICK HERE for summary table for all multi-sanctioning discount packages available via ENYTB. CLICK HERE for overview of ENYTB's Open Tournaments - Last Man Standing. Using the website and handouts above, Ed Frye led a discussion of the "My Team" menu and the 2011 ENYTB Program. General areas covered included:Team Registration Status - All clubs and teams can use this summary table to easily track their progress in satisfying the league's various registration information requirements (10 items). Paperwork/Hardcopy - Except for certain documents, clubs and teams can enter all registration information requirements interactively via the website. This page identifies the documents that can not be entered to website (proof of age, proof of team insurance, signed AABC roster) that need to be provided to Sharon (sharon@enytb.com). Sharon discussed these items, the format that they should be provided if possible (scan/email) etc. Sharon will enter receipt of these documents on the website so that members know their registration status at all times. Sharon noted that these documents must be received by MAR 15, the date registration closes, for these ages. The same is true for all registration information entered directly to the website by members. In the event of extenuating circumstances, members are to contact Sharon and give her the reason and the expected time when the information will be provided. Failure to meet these deadlines will prevent your team from being scheduled for league play.Sanctioned National Championship Tournament Series (NCTS) - Results for 2010 were discussed as well as the full set of NCTS available to ENYTB members in 2011, including those recently added - CABA and GSA.Information was provided re: activation, registration, scheduling and rosters. An information flowchart for determining a player's league status and associated release requirement was also provided.Customized Scheduling - Ed demonstrated the website's capabilities for accepting detailed information on team availability. Sharon will be collecting and confirming that information with each team as well as field availability info. Sharon discussed the best way for providing this information to her as well as how people may want to go about letting her know they are ready to provide the info or have it reviewed by Sharon.Ed also discussed the trade-off between specifying unnecessarily tight constraints on your team availability and getting a good schedule. When you over-restrict your availability to give yourself a perfect schedule e.g., 12 noon every Sunday, you are limiting the number of match-ups that are possible for you. Thus, rather than play a perfect opponent a little earlier or later than 12pm, you run the risk of playing a much stronger or weaker opponent exactly at 12pm. Ed also discussed the trade-off between strength-of-schedule and diversity of schedule, particularly when the number of teams in your age/competition level is small.Non-Sunday Games - Rick Miller discussed how we have an increasing number of teams who are full time travel teams and are looking for games throughout the week, including teams with lighted fields that want to play on Friday nights. Thus, any team that wants to play on other days of the week besides Sunday should certainly enter that to their team and field availability and I will schedule all possible match-ups.8U Division - Two other 8U teams are interested in joining the league but they are holding back because we have only one team activated at 8U. Thus, if you have an 8U team, sign-up now and get the other 8U teams sitting on the sideline to get in the game.Rosters - Ed demonstrated how clubs release players on the website as well as how to construct a regular season sanctioned roster.New RulesSchedule Reliability and Mandated Limits On Discretionary Schedule Changes As Well As Play or Forfeit on All Long Distance Travel.Revised Tampering PenaltiesIf you host for AABC, you better negotiate with them for a host berth because you will not be eligible for an AABC berth from ENYTB.Misc - including new Unlimted EH rule and Composite Aluminum Bat Restrictions. Also, club and team home pages have an official complaint form for reporting complaints against fellow members e.g., tampering etc. These complaint forms are official i.e., they will be investigated and the league will make a formal decision on them. All complaints must be submitted via these forms. No more telephone complaints please. Too many times, people call me with complaints and then decide after the fact they don't want to do anything about it. Once a written complaint is submitted, it can not be withdrawn.The rest of the meeting was divided between discussing the league's new approach for qualifying for sanctioned tournament play in AABC, NABF and PONY, and the CABA/GSA World Series Qualifiers to be hosted by ENYTB. Lots of good feedback was received.AABC/PONY/NABF - A table was presented showing how teams will qualify for advancement two different ways: through a qualifying tournament seeded by the standings, and through regular season play alone. Concerned was expressed that teams could win a PONY or NABF regular season division and not qualify for a berth in those sanctioning because the berths were claimed by the winners of the qualifying tournament. To reverse the order, however, and allow the division winners to pick first would have the effect of making the qualifying tournament a competition for AABC berths only. As a result, the formula for allocating berths between the divisions and the qualifying tournament was altered to give an additional berth to the division winners. This alone, however, will not ensure that a PONY division winner for example, will get a PONY berth. Another solution will be pursued, namely, to attempt to get two berths from PONY and NABF. Were this the case, we could lock in a berth for each divisional winner and still have a PONY and NABF berth available for competition via the qualifying tournament. This is not a problem with ABBC provided at least 8 teams register for AABC in each age division (qualifies for two AABC NCTS berths). However, were the AABC registrations in an age division sufficient for only one berth, that would create the same problem for AABC.Presentation/Interest in CABA/GSA World Series Qualifiers - A few teams have signed up and a few more present had some interest in these events. Nobody present seemed to have any interest in berths in CABA World Series hosted by leagues in New Haven, CT and Newburgh, NY despite nearly a 50% price reduction when purchased in combination with entry to ENYTB's CABA WSQ. As a result, we may not be able to lock in entries from those leagues to our CABA WSQ. However, if you are interested in any of the CABA/GSA options, sign up for them on your registration page and if there is sufficient interest, I will go forward with my exchange proposal with those leagues. These tournaments may draw outside teams on their own.CABA/GSA = Memorial Day WeekendAABC/PONY Qualifiers - June 17 weekendEnd Of Season For Official Standings - June 26 (12U and underNCTS Discount Packages - A table was presented showing the various discount packages available to teams choosing two or more sanctioning options.Last Man Standing - Based on the huge dip in interest in these tournaments in 2010, all members present felt we should go back to the $200 entry fee and pay your own umpires rather than the $500 all-inclusive package. It shall be done.

Duties Of An ENYTB Club Rep Vis A Vis His Club's Teams.... CLICK HERE to view download of handout from club owner/club rep meeting of Sunday, Jan 30, 2011.

ENYTB Introduces Hybrid All-In-One Qualifying Format To Advance Teams To Sanctioned National Championship Tournament Series In AABC, PONY and NABF ...Prior to 2011, ENYTB qualified teams for sanctioned tournament play via an "eligibility-fee based, earn-your-way through regular season play only" approach. Teams made themselves eligible by paying a ... read more

ENYTB To Host GSA World Series Qualifiers At All Ages Open To ENYTB Members and Non-MembersGSA will be staging their inaugural World Series in Plant City, FL. All ages begin play on July 23.A drop-down tournament format will be used in the World Series to ensure that every team competes for a world title at its own level.5 games minimum.Teams will ... read more

ENYTB To Host CABA World Series Qualifiers At All Ages Open To ENYTB Members and Non-MembersOver 400 teams from all over the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Panama competed at the highest level in CABA World Series Events in 2010. Top finishers represented the best of the best from California, New York, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Illino... read more

The CABA National ChampionshipsDirect Berths Available To ENYTB Member TeamsBeginning this season, ENYTB is a CABA sanctioned league and all ENYTB members are eligible to attend CABA sanctioned events. While the World Series are CABA's premier summer events, where the who's who of summer travel baseball compete in 40 team tournaments with 7 game gu... read more

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