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		Definitions
			Affiliated Organizations - organizations that enter teams into your league. Examples: clubs, associations, or schools. If you are a district/playing league (or an AYSO Area), your affiliated organizations are other leagues. It is not required that you list any affiliated organizations. However, if one is entered, then the contact person can enter teams for that organization. Blackout Date - When making a schedule using the scheduling engine, you must specify the start and end dates of the season. However, you can specify blackout dates when games are not to be scheduled. You can specify more than one date by entering the dates separated by a comma. Competition – A collection of matches within a Season. There are three types of competitions: League, Tournament, and Cup. Each competition type has its own scheduling options. District - An organization of leagues that schedules divisions of traveling teams from the leagues. Division - a collection of teams that are scheduled to play each other. When a team is added to your league database, it is not yet in a division (even though it has characteristics that are often similar to a division, e.g. U-12 girls). See Add Teams to a Division. Extra Date - You can specify dates outside the start and end dates when making a schedule Full Rights League - An affiliate league (usually of a traveling league) that subscribes to YourSportsLeague.com Game Difficulty - a number based on the play characteristics of the game (gender, age group, and play level). Game Interval - The time between games. There are system defaults for each age group. You can change the default value when scheduling. Games Refereed Report - A report that shows a list of all games refereed within a specified set of dates. Reports can be exported for use with a Referee Payment template. Guest – Anyone can log in as a guest with no password to view any league in the list. League Officers – persons with specific powers using YourSportsLeague.com. All league officers have the ability to send email, and they can always see results and standings, even for recreational divisions. The League President has no specific responsibilities, and can mainly view a number of reports. Play Characteristics - used to describe divisions of play, determine game difficulty, and assign referee strength. Includes Gender, Age Group, and Play Level. Practice Game - A game added that is not part of league play. The game is not displayed on the division schedule and the results are not reflected in the standings. The game will be displayed on the team schedule. Recreational League – a league that basically plays all of its games on home fields. Typically the control and therefore assignment of fields is centralized. Referee Strength - a number assigned to a referee based on specifying a comfort level with games of a particular difficulty (e.g. U-12 boys rec) Request/Confirn - A league can choose to allow referees to request games within their comfort level. The referee coordinator must confirm the request before the assignment is made. Restricted Rights League - an affiliate league (usually of a traveling league) that does not subscribe to YourSportsLeague.com for its local league. Scheduling Engine - generates a schedule automatically from a set of parameters that you specify. The engine will balance the schedule for home and away, opponent, number of games, and field slots. The engine can accept any number of playing dates and number of teams in a division. It also allows you to specify a number of time slots across a range of fields. Once the schedule is made any game can be edited for fine tuning. Season – A logical period of playing, such as Fall 2003 or Spring 2004 for league play, or Summer Tournament 2004 for tournament play. A season must be created first before competitions can be scheduled. Self-Assign - A league can choose to allow referees to assign themselves to games. If a referee has a strength number, he or she can only self-assign to a game within the comfort level. Team Contact - The contact person for a specific team. This person should have an email address. Team Types: 1. House – a team that plays its games in a recreational league. 2. Traveling – a team that plays its games in a traveling league. 3. Visiting – a team associated with another league that plays its games in your recreational league. Traveling Games Division – a division built into MSL in which a Match Secretary can enter the home games for local teams that play in a Traveling League. Traveling League – a league made up of teams from affiliated leagues, where teams typically play half of their games on other leagues’ fields. Also known as competitive league. User Home Page – This page has a list linked to the various functions associated the user’s defined role. When you log in your user home page is displayed.
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