Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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The Premier Travel League In Eastern Upstate NY

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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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Placing/Finding Team Ads For Pick-Up Games

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 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 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

    Columns 12 thru 15 - How To Set-Up Your Sanctioned Rosters

    Each sanctioning body has its own player eligibility requirements, roster limits and deadlines, as well as its own official roster form.

    Your "league" roster (ENYTB) qualifies yours players for ENYTB regular season league play only i.e., it does not make them eligible for sanctioned tournament play.

    To be eligible for sanctioned tournament play, your players also must appear on your official regular season roster for that sanctioning body. ORMS, enytb.com's Online Roster Management System, maintains a separate regular season roster for each sanctioning body for which your team is registered under. However, it is each team's responsibility to ensure that the appropriate players on its league roster are linked to each of its sanctioned rosters.

    Your league roster is the starting point for building your sanctioned rosters i.e., a player must be on your team's league roster before he can be added to any of your sanctioned rosters.

    To add a player to a sanctioned roster you simply link that player to that roster. This is done as follows:
    1. Go to your sanctioned roster(s);
    2. Click the arrow next to each player that you wish to add (or click the X next to his name if you wish to remove him from your sanctioned roster.
    NOTE: Any player failing any of the eligibility criteria of a given sanctioning body, will not be added to that roster and you will be informed of the specific violation via an on-screen message.

    The website allows teams to move players on and off each of their sanctioned rosters up until the deadline set by each sanctioning body. These cut-off dates are set by each sanctioning body and can vary by age division. Thus, until that deadline, you can add/drop players from each sanctioned roster. To reiterate, it is each team's responsibility to keep its sanctioned rosters current. One the official cut-off date maintained by a sanctioning body is reached, the website will lock down your sanctioned roster and you will no longer be able to make changes to it.

    NOTE: All ENYTB teams are registered with NABF even if you didn't pay for NABF sanctioning. Teams that didn't pay for NABF sanctioning are not eligible for NABF tournaments but their players are eligible to be "drafted" for NABF tournament play by teams that are NABF sanctioned. In addition, all ENYTB teams are eligible to buy insurance from NABF. We send these rosters to the national sanctioning bodies and they send a copy on to their insurance carriers.

    How do you set-up your sanctioned rosters?

    Go to MY TEAM > Team Rosters - the same place you go to create your ENYTB roster only this time, instead of selecting ENYTB, select NABF, or AABC, or PONY.

    When assigning players to your sanctioned rosters, you don't enter any data. Instead, you are shown two player lists.

    List 1 = your complete ENYTB player list - sanctioned rosters are limited to players from your ENYTB roster.

    List 2 - the players you have thus far added to your regular season NABF, AABC or PONY sanctioned rosters. This list will start empty or it may have some of your players already linked.

    To link a player from your ENYTB roster (list 1) to a sanctioned roster (list 2) just click the arrow next to the player's name. (NOTE: Player remains on your actual ENYTB roster but now he is also linked to your sanctioned roster.)

    If you want to drop or remove a player from your sanctioned roster, simply click the X next to his name (X = delete).

    Repeat: None of this has any effect on the players on your ENYTB roster.

    You repeat this process for each sanctioning body that you registered for, as well as for NABF whether you registered for it or not. If you don't remember what you registered for, there are two ways to find out:

    (1) go to your registration page and see what boxes you checked; or,
    (2) simply open the sanctioned roster: if you aren't registered for it, it will tell you so rather than show you the two player
    lists. If it shows you the two player lists, make the links as explained above.

    So, EVERY TEAM has at least two rosters: ENYTB and NABF. In addition, many of you have an AABC and/or PONY roster.

    It takes about 30 seconds to set each sanctioned roster. This makes your team eligible for insurance and post-season play, and it makes each player you listed eligible to be drafted by another team similarly sanctioned if/when your team is eliminated from tournament play. The last thing you want to deal with is an angry parent who finds out that their son has been deprived of an opportunity for high level sanctioned tournament play because you ignored this 30 second task.

    Warning: Every year about 1/3 of our teams fail to link their players to their sanctioned rosters. In far less time than it took me to write this FAQ, you can set up three sanctioned rosters (maybe 90 seconds total).

    While you have till June 1 to set-up your sanctioned rosters, the sooner the better as June 1 is a busy time and it would be easy to forget.

    Something else to keep in mind - at 16U and below, PONY limits tournament teams to 15 players, so that may require some hard decisions if you are carrying more than 15 players. But remember, you can make changes to your PONY roster right up until when you advance from local play to Regional play.

    Lastly, once you have completed this exercise, you can view your actual official sanctioned roster form, completely filled out, by going to your Roster Manager, selecting the sanctioning body and selecting the print function. Before it prints you are shown an image of your completely filled out official roster form for that sanctioning body. If you don't click print, it won't print. (Most rosters are set to print to legal sized paper but you don't need to print anything now.)

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.