Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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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

FINDING UFAs Via enytb.com

Customized Scheduling - 101

  • CUSTOMIZED SCHEDULING
  • Why Does ENYTB Separate Team Availability (TA) From Home Field Availability (HFA)?
    • Scheduling Inputs - General Description

    Scheduling Inputs:
    What are they and how do I provide them to the league?


    Once activated and before March 1st (12U and younger)and April 1st (13U and older) each team must provide all scheduling inputs to their League Navigator.

    ENYTB separates scheduling inputs according to information that is team specific (referred to as "Team Availability") and information that is home field specific (referred to as "Field Availability"). These availability data are used to create separate scheduling calendars because very few teams have the same team and field availability. Team availability alone is sufficient to schedule a team's away games i.e., a team's home field availability has no bearing on when it is available to play its away games. Field availability data also is much more straightforward than team availability data: field time is either available or it is not. The overlap between team availability and field availability is used to schedule a team's home games.

    NOTE: Field data is usually collected from the club GM unless the club makes its teams responsible for obtaining field time on their own.

    Since team availability data can be very nuanced it is usually obtained directly from each team's primary contact unless otherwise directed by the club GM. Your LN will guide you through a phone interview to collect the data in the format required by the system. This phone call can take between 15 and 30 minutes.


    OVERVIEW OF A TYPICAL SCHEDULE

    A typical team may choose a summer season that includes 51 days from start to end. That would be 7 weeks and begin on a weekend and end on a weekend. Thus, there are 7 possible dates for every weekday day type and 8 possible dates for every weekend day type. This team my choose to play 2 games during the week on Tues, Wed or Thur. This would be 14 games (7*2). In addition, it wishes to play both Sat & Sun and it wishes to play a DH on Sat OR Sun (not both). This would be 24 more games (8*3), for a total of 38 games. However, it also blocked out two weekends (one for the 4th of July and for a pay tournament they signed up for). Thus, that would be 6 less games for a total = 32. And, the team is signed up for ENYTB's June Madness tournament which results in 4 more no play dates, two on the weekend and one on Fri and Monday. Since they weren't available to play on Mon and Fri anyways, those dates have no effect on their game total but the weekend block-outs cost them 3 more games, resulting in a final regular season schedule of 29 games.

    To get the best possible schedule in terms of a variety of opponents and a competitively balanced scheduled, teams should maximize their team availability to the extent possible. If team availability yields more games than the team wants, the team should specify a MAX # GAMES = X. If a team wants to be scheduled to teh limits of its availability, it should specify FILL ALL.

    Partial time blocks are available as well. They allow teams to specify no games under the lights on school nights and/or not before a certain hour on Saturdays or Sundays and/or not after a certain hour on the weekends. It is important to keep in mind, however, that the fewer block-outs (dates or times) that a team has, the better its schedule is likely to be because it will be possible to match them up with a greater number of appropriate teams, according to its strength-of-schedule preferences. Thus, teams greatly benefit by limiting their black-outs to situations where it just isn't possible for their team to play and to use the either/or functions to maximize their availability.

  • TEAM AVAILABILITY INPUTS
  • HOME FIELD AVAILABILITY INPUTS
  • Scheduling Inputs: Strength-Of-Schedule (SoS) Preferences
  • How To Confirm (E-VERIFY) The ACCURACY Of Your Team Availability Calendar
  • How To CONFIRM/E-VERIFY Field Availability
  • When does the ENYTB spring/summer season start? end?
  • What is the minimum number of league games required to be eligible for sanctioned and/or members only tournament play?
  • How many games can the league guarantee a team?
  • When can teams expect to get their schedule?
  • Where can I find my team schedule?
  • How do I use Self-Scheduler? [VIDEO]

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.