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The Premier Travel League In Eastern Upstate NY

WEBSITE ACCESS

REGISTRATION IS AS SIMPLE AS 1-2-3!

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
  • 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

    ENYTB Player Classification


    ENYTB's roster protection system limits the number of players any ENYTB team can take from all other ENYTB teams combined in the current year as well as from any single ENYTB team in the current year as well as over the lifetime of both teams. To this end, the universe of all players is divided into two general groups: restricted free agents (RFA) and unrestricted free agents (UFA).

    (A) DEFINITION: Restricted Free Agents (RFA):

    Any player appearing on the official roster of a registered ENYTB team as "primary." This includes active as well as inactive players. The latter includes players that did not report in the current or previous year as well players that were cut in the current or previous year.

    NOTE: Players can be on a team's roster as primary or secondary. Players can be on only one team in an age division and a player can be only one team as primary. All ENYTB roster protection accrues to the primary team. Players may switch secondary teams w/o restriction. Players must give priority to their primary team in all conflicts with their secondary teams unless their primary team gives them permission to do otherwise.

    The RFA pool is a limited source of players for all ENYTB teams, new and existing. The number of RFAs any team is entitled to in a single year is determined by the various RFA "CAPS" established by ENYTB as well as the various exemptions to these caps that are available.

    The deadlines for using RFA credits on active players are:

    MAR 1 for ages 12u and under.
    APR 1 for ages 13U & Older.

    NOTE: Players who do not report to their team the following year, or "cut" themselves from their prior team or are cut by their prior team remain on that team's online roster for two years. During this time they are classified as INACTIVE.

    NOTE: Once a player is classified as CUT or DNR, he can not be returned to that team's active roster. Such players do NOT count towards the team's official roster limits.

    Unlike players listed as active, there is no deadline for when inactive players can change teams. However, like active players, their choices are limited to those teams that have not exhausted their RFA credits.

    When a player is acquired in an RFA transaction, the player counts as an RFA loss for his prior team and that team is compensated for its loss with an additional RFA credit (compensatory credit) up to a maximum of 3 compensatory credits per year. Compensatory credits, unlike all other RFA credits, carry forward from one year to the next.


    (B) DEFINITION: Unrestricted Free Agent (UFA):

    Any player that is not an RFA.

    For the most part, this includes all players who did not participate in ENYTB in the prior two seasons or they did but their team has since been discontinued.

    The UFA pool is an unlimited source of players for all ENYTB teams, new and existing.

    NOTE: Inactive players are RFAs and they include players who were first designated as CUT or DNR this year or last. So an inactive player is NOT an UFA.

    ENYTB's player CAP system places no limits on the number of UFA a team may add in any year.

    EXCEPTION: "DEAD" TEAMS - Teams that are discontinued are maintained by the system as dead teams for two years, including the first year the team is dead. During each of these two years there is annual H2H Cap = 3 between any live team and any "dead" team. At the end of two years the dead team is deleted and all restrictions vis a vis the dead team are ended.

    NOTE: This rule was necessary to stop existing teams from folding in order to form new teams with the same players, now classified as UFA. As new teams this practice would let them keep all their previous players while qualifying for additional RFAs compared to existing teams.

  • 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.