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What's New This Year (in the League)?

The Basics

Approximate Cost Of Fielding A Travel Team

Annual Timeline - ENYTB Participation

Annual Informational Meetings

New Member Orientation

The Club GM

Team Registration Part I - Team Activation

Team Registration Part II - Your Purchase

Team Registration - Part III - Other

Loopholes On Age Eligibility

Fines & Security Deposits

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    What To Do If Your Opponent Can't Play But You Still Want To Play Or If You Just Want More Games

    What To Do If Your Opponent Can't Play
    But You Still Want To Play Or If You Just Want More Games

    Some of you contact the league office for help on finding replacement opponents when a scheduled opponent cancels out. Unfortunately, once schedules have been released, we don't know any better than you who is looking to add a game on any particular date (although upon request, we can look at the date in question and tell you the cancellations/postponements, if any, on the date in question).

    ADVISORY TO ALL MEMBERS:

    Just as you are under no obligation to agree to cancel or postpone games during the Grace Period, ENYTB is under no obligation to replace those games for you. When it comes to scheduling, each team gets one bite at the apple.

    SPECIAL ADVISORY TO NON-LOCAL MEMBERS:

    A non-local member should be very hesitant to agree to a cancellation/postponement, especially with their home games. Even away games can difficult to replace because fields are highly utilized on the weekends, making it very difficult to find an opponent with back-to-back time slots in the middle of a weekend day. Remember, when you agree to "undo" (negotiate Grace Period cancellations with other ENYTB members), you are assuming the risk of not finding a replacement opponent. Upon request we will search specific dates for recent cancellations/postponements for you in the event there is another orphaned team like yourself, looking for a game.

    ENYTB provides all members with a means of advertising their availability for additional games and for searching advertisements placed by other members. This tool is probably the most underutilized feature of the website. And it is VERY EASY to use. And it provides you with several different capabilities.

    STEP 1 - Check out the ENYTB Game Board.

    CLICK HERE TO GO THERE NOW

    The Game Board is a list of all teams actively seeking games on specific dates, sorted by date. (To put your request on this list, simply enter it to the system.)

    If there are lots of game requests on the board, click SEARCH and it will retrieve all requests that match the criteria you specify in terms of opponent age and competition level as well as field availability and date you wish to play. You can include ranges on certain criteria e.g., type of opponent from 15 HiSilver to 16 Gold.

    STEP 2 - If there are no matches found on the Game Board (STEP 1), add your own request to the Game Board by clicking ADD REQUEST.

    STEP 3 - SEARCH TEAM/FIELD AVAILABILITY FOR OTHER TEAMS

    Unlike the search function described above, this one is quite different. It doesn't search the GAME BOARD. Instead, it searches the scheduling inputs that all teams provided to the league prior to scheduling. When the league schedule was developed, not every team was scheduled to play every day it wanted too. This function will find all the teams who said they wanted to play on any specified date or date range, but was not scheduled to do so and still is not scheduled to do so. This search function has two modes - by date and by opponent, explained next.

    The tools described below worked in tandem with ENYTB's prior scheduling software. The new software, implemented in 2015, has not been reconnected to these tools at this time.

    STEP 3A - SEARCH BY DATE

    Here you enter the date you wish to play, the range of opponent you seek, and your field preference. The computer will return a list of all potential opponents that fit your criteria e.g., 15U Gold opponent on June 15 who has a field available. If you are interested in playing a team that matches your criteria, click on the team's name to pull up their contact info and call them to see if you can work something out.

    STEP 3B - SEARCH BY OPPONENT

    Let's say you would like to schedule a game or games with a particular team. You simply tell the computer what team you would like to play and specify the date range you would like to play them (can be a single day) and again, it will return a list of all dates when that team is available in that date range. You get to specify home field criteria as well. For example, you can specify that your opponent must have a home field available.

    NOTE: SEARCH BY OPPONENT also is a valuable tool when looking for workable dates for a make-up of a postponed game.

    For more reading on Pick-Up Games CLICK HERE TO GO THERE NOW

  • Once the schedule is set, how do I use the website to find opponents for additional games, including on dates my opponent canceled and make-up dates?

League Playing Rules

Wood Bats

Composite Metal Bat Restrictions

Sanctioned Post-Season Play - What is it?

Last Man Standing Tournaments - What Are They?

Online Roster Management System (ORMS)

Roster Management Protocols

How ENYTB Regulates Player Movement Between Teams

FINDING UFAs Via enytb.com

Customized Scheduling - 101

How To Transact a SCHEDULE CHANGE

PROTOCOLS FOR SCHEDULE CHANGES

Schedule Management Protocols

Standings Questions

After You Have Won A Berth To A Sanctioned NCTS

Contact Info

How Do I Change My Email Preferences

How Do I Enter My Scores

Lineup Cards - Mandatory (available Online)

Field Availability

INFORMATION re: ENYTB Fall League

JOE Tournament (ENYTB/ValleyCats Fall Classic)

ENYTB OPEN Tournaments

Help

  • How Do League Participants Retrieve Their Own Password?

    Lost Password?

    enytb.com allows users to retrieve their own password at any time.

    To retrieve your own password:

    Go to the very top of the home page and click on the [Login] button. In the spawned modal, click [Lost Password?]

    Enter your ENYTB registered email address;

    Click the applicable user ID (if there is more than one).

    The system will instantly email your password to your registered email address.

    NOTE: If you get a message stating that you aren't a registered user, the system is telling you that it does not recognize the email address you have entered i.e., it is not of a valid email address/password pairing. This would happen if you have multiple email address and are entering a different email address from what you are registered under in the system. It could also mean you have typed in your email address incorrectly or that it was originally entered incorrectly to the system. If you believe it to be the latter, please contact your league navigator for assistance. If you don't know who your league navigator is, contact Ed Frye at 518-356-9089.

Custom Scheduling

ENYTB puts you in the driver’s seat in determining when and how much you team plays as well as who you play.
  • Have your schedule include the exact number of games you want week-by-week as well as in total;
  • Have your HOME games scheduled only on the dates/times your home field and team are both available;
  • Have your AWAY games scheduled only on the dates/times your team is available;
  • Automatically eliminate opponents outside your team’s competitive range; and,
  • Top priority given to scheduling games with specific opponents that you designate as most preferred. You can also block specific opponents you prefer not playing.

Schedule Reliability

Schedule reliability is the hallmark of every great league!
  • Teams are required to play all games as scheduled;
  • 100% enforcement via ENYTB website;
  • More than 90% of all ENYTB scheduled games are played as scheduled, excluding cancellations due to bad weather;
  • Games that aren’t played as scheduled (forfeits) can be made up at a later time by mutual agreement to avoid fine;
  • Fines are imposed for un-played or un-scored games;
  • ENYTB guarantees reimbursement for unavoidable out-of-pocket game expenses due to late cancellations.

Tournament Opportunities

Multiple tournaments for all ages!
  • Local tournaments hosted on premium fields, including Joe Bruno Stadium, home to the Tri-City ValleyCats, minor league affiliate of the Houston Astros.
  • Exclusive local tournaments for Members Only: Super 8, Summer Blast, Madness!, and ValleyCats Fall Classic. Each with a 2 game guarantee. Sign up available on team order form.
  • OPEN tournament: Last Man Standing. 3 game guarantee. Last weekend of July. All teams in the Capital District and beyond are welcome to join in this summer finale! Members sign up on team order form. Non-members sign up on-line through tournament menu.
  • Sanctioned National Championship Tournament Series are available to members at all ages via ENYTB affiliates: NABF; PONY; and, AABC. Sign-up available on team order form.

Nine ENYTB Teams Have Won Sanctioned National Championships. Can your team be the 10th?

Interested in Joining?

  • New members are always welcome - ENYTB continues to grow, having reached 225 teams in 2019
  • New teams are allowed to roster up to four players one year older than their team age (pre-2019 teams are grandfathered at five such players); and,
  • New teams are allowed a maximum of four players from active ENYTB teams, provided no more than three of those players are from the same team.
  • Players looking for a travel team to play for can go to Teams Looking for Players or go to Teams Hosting Tryouts.

For more information re: ENYTB membership you may contact ENYTB Executive Director, Andy Frye at (518) 545-0747 or by email at andy@enytb.com.

Interested in Joining?

  • New members are always welcome - ENYTB continues to grow, having reached 225 teams in 2019
  • New teams are allowed to roster up to four players one year older than their team age (pre-2019 teams are grandfathered at five such players); and,
  • New teams are allowed a maximum of four players from active ENYTB teams, provided no more than three of those players are from the same team.

For more information re: ENYTB membership you may contact ENYTB Executive Director, Andy Frye at (518) 545-0747 or by email at andy@enytb.com.