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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

Paid Advertising - enytb.com

Free Ads on enytb.com (Members Only)

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 ENYTB Regulates Player Movement Between Teams

    Why Voluntary Release Systems Are Doomed To Fail

    Why Voluntary "Release" Systems Are Doomed To Fail


    (A) BACKGROUND

    From its inception (1996) through 2012, ENYTB relied on a voluntary release system to regulate player movement among its member teams. All clubs "enjoyed" 100% roster protection i.e., all internal player movement was regulated by requiring the player to obtain a "release" (permission slips) from his current team's owner before he was allowed to change teams. Releases were discretionary i.e., once a player requested a release, the club had the option of granting or denying the player's request.

    In addition, in order to provide all members with so-called roster protection, ENYTB banned its members' from tampering with another member's rostered players.


    (B) Generic Flaws With Any Release System

    Allowing "normal" player movement while enforcing a ban on tampering, is a delicate dance that borders on the impossible, as our experience gave witness to.

    In terms of addressing the needs of "unhappy" players the release system was fairly effective.

    In terms of the club owner, the release system was not very effective at all. Tampering was rampant. Tampering can be very destructive to any league because it undermines the viability and competitiveness of existing teams.

    DEFINITION: Tampering: Cannibalizing a fellow member's roster through improper contact with his player(s).

    It is not difficult to imagine a variety of stealth or "under the radar" ways to tamper w/o leaving any fingerprints. And, parents, thinking the grass is greener, and sensing little or no risk, often not only succumb to the overtures of the tamperer but cooperate in hiding the fact from the league that tampering took place.

    Enforcing the league's ban on tampering proved to be problematical at best. For every "official" tampering complaint and "conviction", there were numerous instances of suspected tampering that went unpunished either because the member couldn't prove their strong suspicions or, when push came to shove, they just didn't want to stir the pot.

    For these reasons, any voluntary release system is largely an honor system. The problem with all honor systems is that the honorable follow the rules while everyone else "games" the system to gain an unfair advantage i.e. cheat. In the end, to effectively enforce a ban on tampering would take significant resources, far more than this or any amateur youth league has at its discretion. That is the unfortunate reality of the situation. Thus, a voluntary release system only fools us into thinking we have roster protection when in reality, there are members enticing players to attend their tryouts and to request their release from their current team in order to play for them.


    (C) THE LESSON LEARNED

    The lesson is that short of banning player movement altogether, absolute protection against tampering/recruitment/enticement is not attainable in the real world of amateur youth travel baseball.

    The corollary to that lesson is that we are better off with a system that offers limited but "REAL" roster protection than a system that promises 100% roster protection but delivers none.

    ENYTB's new roster protection system does just that by imposing CAPs (or limits) on how many overall players any one team can take from the league player pool (all other team's rosters) in the current year as well as on how many players any one team can take from any other team in the current year and over the common lifetime of both teams.

    The CAP system is more than sufficient to allow all normal player movement, but it effectively restrains the most aggressive recruiters from going to the extreme and taking w/o limit. In the end, not every player will be able to change teams to his first choice, but every player will have plenty of teams to choose from if he truly wants to change teams.

    NOTE: ENYTB also recognizes that there is no sure way of determining whether a player seeking to change teams was tampered with or not. Thus, to make sure that every "untampered" player that wants to change teams is free to do so, ALL players who want to change teams must be allowed to do so. Therefore, like it or not, recruited players must be eligible to change teams the same as anyone else. In effect, this means tampering is no longer illegal in ENYTB.

  • Effective 2013 Season - ENYTB Adopts Team Player Caps To Regulate The Extent To Which Teams Can Take Players From Their Fellow Members
  • OVERVIEW OF ENYTB CAP SYSTEM FOR REGULATING INTRA-LEAGUE PLAYER MOVEMENT
  • ENYTB Player Classification
  • TEAM CAPS (RFA CREDITS)
  • RFA EXEMPTIONS
  • Limited Members - Restricted Applicability Of RFA Credits
  • Intra-Club Transfer Rules

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.