Creating a League Website

[showtime89]

Currently if you want information for our house league, you go to our msn page which lists the schedule, standing, and rosters as well as pics of the last 4 championship teams.
But that's it. There's nothing to SELL the league or make it interesting for anyone to check out the site. So basically it's really lame (honestly so is the facility, so at least that's on the same plane). We need to GROW and the facility is not a drawing point (small, roller skating rink, hardwood floor, carpeted concrete walls, disco balls, 3 openings in the walls for people to enter/exit the floor for normal roller skating, no locker rooms, etc). As for teams/players, we currently have 6 teams with 7-9 skaters on each team. One team decided to get matching jerseys this season (gotta love the orange), so they LOOK like a team, but I doubt other teams will follow because we redraft each season to help with parity.
I want to spice things up a bit and create a real site for the league (something to look at other than to just check when your next game is). I would love to use the pointstreak system for stats, but if we can't fix two wooden dasherboards, I don't think we can afford that (I can easily create a scoresheet for the scoreboard operator to do). Currently we don't keep stats or give out any awards (which is somewhat ok because you don't have players playing for the wrong reason), but at the same time, it would nice to be able to have a stat page as well. I am fully capable of creating a new league page, but what you think we need to have on the page other than standings, schedule, rosters? It wouldn't be too big a deal to record stats, I wouldn't think. We just started this new season last week, so I wouldn't do stats this season, so that could wait till the next season. What does a good league site need? Message board? Guestbook?

Here's our current lame thing:
http://groups.msn.com/Jaxrollerhockey/_whatsnew.msnw

[BLIZARD_HOCKEY]

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[RichardGraham]

Hi Ron,

Think long and hard about having a message board. ;)

[quick_dry]

how big is your budget? for a small in house league like you describe, store your stats in Excel and with a few templates to put the data in and look pretty you'd be fine for that component.

I've got some templates and stuff to suck stats out of scoresheets that I wrote to check/audit the stats for an ice hockey summer comp, they might be of some use for you. I wouldn't go for a fancy system until you need to - but at least if you've kept everything in Excel (or something digital) you can easily import it into whatever system you eventually grow to.

keys for a league:
schedule
team lists
team standings
game scores
basic player stats


http://www.quickdry.net/quickdry/hockey/lcc.html
the output is only basic because I just used it to get a listing of all stats, but it'd be easy to snip up the output to however you want it - and I think it captures most of the stats info you need (except the listing of all penalties, I just wanted to see that). It took a couple of hours to transcribe all 84 game sheets into Excel and correct scorekeeper errors, then double click and done.

[siberian khatru]

Hi Ron,

Think long and hard about having a message board. ;)

The site we have set up for our league www.manhattanrollerhockeyleague.com has a Standings page (shows season by season standings and stats) and a Schedule/Contact Info page I can update myself by loading in updated Word documents without the webmaster's help. The webmaster takes care of revisions to the pages with photographs, team information and everything else. Most players seem happy with what the site offers.

To reflect Richard's comment I purposely stayed away from offering a message board to our teams. I didn't want players talking smack all week about guys on the team they're about to play and then showing up at the rink all ready to start kicking ass.

[showtime89]

Our league runs approximately 12 weeks including playoffs, we take a month off, redraft and do it all over, so basically 3 seasons a year. 5-8 teams depeding on the season and the number of goalies that we have. I've been looking at the option provided by powerplaystats and that looks pretty good. It would depend if we can get the rink manager to just up the league fee $5/person and pass that along to us, would more than cover that. I can build the site myself if we don't choose that option, I was just curious what we should include.

[William Bourque]

Our league runs approximately 12 weeks including playoffs, we take a month off, redraft and do it all over, so basically 3 seasons a year. 5-8 teams depeding on the season and the number of goalies that we have. I've been looking at the option provided by powerplaystats and that looks pretty good. It would depend if we can get the rink manager to just up the league fee $5/person and pass that along to us, would more than cover that. I can build the site myself if we don't choose that option, I was just curious what we should include.

I think PPS would add a lot to any house leagues that use it. It has all the tools you could ever want to use to run a league and isn't outrageously priced.