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Annual Timeline - ENYTB Participation

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Team Registration Part I - Team Activation

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Sanctioned Post-Season Play - What is it?

Last Man Standing Tournaments - What Are They?

Online Roster Management System (ORMS)

Roster Management Protocols

  • How To Determine a Player's Official Baseball Age
  • Is there a deadline for adding new players to my ENYTB roster for the regular season?
  • Can a player be on the ENYTB roster of more than one ENYTB team at the same time?
  • Can players be transferred from one team to another in the same club?
    • Do I need to establish separate REGULAR SEASON ROSTERS for each sanctioning body?

    Do I need to establish separate REGULAR SEASON ROSTERS for each sanctioning body?

    YES.

    Each ENYTB team has two REGULAR SEASON ROSTERS for sure, and possibly as many as four, depending on what sanctioning choices they made when registering with the league.

    At a minimum, every ENYTB team is required to maintain two separate REGULAR SEASON rosters:

    (1) ENYTB - for regular season league play
    (2) NABF - to qualify the league for NABF berths, to qualify their players for drafting into NABF tournaments, to qualify their team for NABF insurance and to qualify their teams for post-season play if they elected to be eligible for NABF tournament play.

    How to do this:


    (i) Player is entered to league database only once (ADD PLAYER).

    If player passes all ENYTB eligibility tests (website does this testing behind the scenes) player is added to ENYTB roster. This makes player eligible for ENYTB regular season play and makes him eligible to be added to sanctioned rosters for the same team. The website will automatically add players to the team's sanctioned rosters at the same time, provided the team has completed its league registration form first and provided the player passed the additional eligibility tests of the sanctioning bodies as well e.g., cutoff dates, roster limits, etc. Just to be safe, teams should check their NABF rosters, their AABC rosters (when applicable), their PONY rosters (when applicable)n and their ECTB rosters (when applicable) to make sure their players are correctly linked.

    (ii) Go to My Team > Roster > NABF

    Click on the check-box for any players on your eligibility list (ENYTB roster) that you want placed on your NABF regular season roster.

    (iii) Go to My Team > Roster > PONY

    If your team is not eligible for PONY an on-screen message will tell you that. Otherwise, click on the check-box for any players on your eligibility list (ENYTB roster) that you want placed on your PONY regular season roster.

    (iv) Go to My Team > Roster > AABC

    If your team is not eligible for AABC an on-screen message will tell you that. Otherwise, click on the check-box for any players on your eligibility list (ENYTB roster) that you want placed on your AABC regular season roster.

    (v) Tournament Rosters

    Later, when the regular season ends, and we know which teams are taking post-season tournament berths under each sanctioning body, the website will give those teams yet another roster for that sanctioning body, called a tournament roster. Tournament rosters are on different official forms than regular season rosters and have different rules.

    RULE 1 of any tournament roster is that it is limited to players on a team's regular season roster, created for that sanctioning body.

    Long before the tournaments begin, ENYTB is required to provide each sanctioning body with a copy of your sanctioned regular season roster. Your sanctioned regular season roster is an eligibility requirement for tournament play i.e., only players on those rosters are eligible to participate in sanctioned tournament play.

    Thus, if you have not correctly established your REGULAR SEASON SANCTIONED ROSTERS, you will not be able to use any players missing from those rosters when it comes time for tournament play.

    RULE 2 of any tournament roster is that teams are allowed to "draft" or add additional players from their league, from teams registered under the same sanctioning body, from teams not participating in the same tournament and according to the rules of that sanctioning body re: how many and roster limits.

    SUMMARY

    (1) Every team needs to check to see if it has set up its NABF regular season roster.

    Go to My Team > Roster > NABF

    If all your players appear on the right hand list that says NABF regular season roster you are OK. If not, click on the check-boxes next to each player on your eligibility list and then click the arrow to move them over.

    (2) Do the same thing for PONY, AABC and ECTB. If the website tells you your team is not registered for PONY, AABC or ECTB, then skip it.

    Teams need to do this now. After the deadline set by each sanctioning body, it will be too late. After the deadlines, each team will be locked in to whatever players are linked to their sanctioned regular season rosters, which the league provides to the sanctioning bodies and which they check for player eligibility at the tournament meetings.

  • Do I need to establish separate TOURNAMENT ROSTERS for each sanctioning body my team is registered with?
  • Roster Deadlines and Player Limits Imposed By Sanctioning Bodies For Tournament Play
  • Columns 12 thru 15 - How To Set-Up Your Sanctioned Rosters

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.