A minor change has been made to Redzone Leagues with regards to the team signup process. When a user registers a team, they will now receive an confirmation email with an activation link that they will need to load in order to complete the registration process.

The reason for this change was to ensure that team representatives have current email addresses entered into the system. League administrators often need to contact team representatives, so we want to make sure those emails are as current as possible. As always, users can update their email address by clicking “My Profile” at the top of the site. If they need to resend a team activation email, they can do so from their “My Teams” page, which is linked at the top of the site after they create a team.

If you are a league administrator adding a new team, you will not need to complete the activation process. This is done to make the team creation by administrators as quick as possible.

Two new features have been added to Redzone.

1. You can now download your player data from the admin users page. The file can be imported into a spreadsheet and formatted however you see fit.
2. A new overtime win point setting has been added along with the other point settings which are available from the admin dashboard.

For our Redzone Leagues users, you can now follow us on Twitter to receive updates or service status messages.

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Just a quick note to mention some small updates recently made to Redzone…

• Division Stats - You can now view the stats for an entire division. The default it still the top 10 for all divisions, but if you’re looking for an extended list of stats, you now have that option.

• Allow multiple contacts - This is a really minor change, but before you couldn’t add a user more than once on the contact page, but now you can.

• Division email - An additional email option has been added to the teams page. You can now send an email to an entire division if required. (This is only accessible to administrators)

It’s been a little while since our last feature update post, but we’ve recently added a couple of new enhancements to the team rosters.

Player number support has now been added. An administrator or team contact can enter in player numbers for their team and these will appear on the team page and will also automatically appear on game score cards.

The second addition is the ability to “disable” a player on a team. An administrator or team captain may want to do this if a player no longer plays on a team or have been “traded” to another team, etc. Disabled players are removed from the team email messages as well as the list of eligible players for a game when entering stats.

Both of these features are only available to the league administrator and the team contact. Simply press the “Edit Roster” button at the bottom of the page for a specific team and you will have the options to specify the player numbers as well as enabling and disabling players using the checkboxes beside each player.

We’ve added RSS feeds for news items as well as each forum that you create for your league. There’s also a feed for all of the forums combined. See your browsers docs and/or use your favourite RSS reader to make use of them.

Enjoy!

I thought it was just candy, but it turns out Skittles is also a sport. You can now create Skittles leagues in Redzone, and because Bowling is a descendent of it we added that as well.

Got a sport that you need league software for? Let us know!

We’ve added Dodgeball support to Redzone today.

There are tons of variations of Dodgeball, so we tried to keep it simple with the statistics. If you have a variation that you’d like us to support drop us a line and let us know!

Redzone Leagues has recently added kickball as a supported sport. The stats currently configured are basically the same as those used for softball, but if you don't want to use any of them, you can use the "Statistics Management" feature and turn them all off or select just the ones you want to use.

We've recently added the ability to customize the stats you use in your league.

Not every league tracks the same stats, so instead of cluttering up the interface with stats your league doesn't use, you can now remove them. Or if you would like to add some additional stats to the defaults provided, you can add stats from any of the predefined stats that are available.

To add or remove stats, click on the "Manage Statistics" link from the admin dashboard.

If there are some stats missing that you would like to add to your league, simply contact us via the support link and we'll do our best to add them.

Redzone Leagues has recently added Ultimate as a supported sport. Currently by default, no stats are tracked, but if you have an Ultimate league that does track some stats, let us know and we can add those to the site for you to use.

In our constant effort to make the registration process easier, we’ve added an additional feature to Redzone Leagues to allow a player to request a spot on a teams roster.

The way the original process worked was that a team captain would create their team and then manually add each player to the roster themselves. This works, and still works, but issues can occur when a captain doesn’t know a players name, or a user hasn’t registered yet in order for them to be added to the roster. If a user hasn’t registered then a captain would have to wait for a user to signup and then that user would have to notify the captain via email, phone, in person, etc. that they’ve registered and can now be added to the team roster… and this is where the signup process can become a bit too much work.

To improve the signup process, a registered user would now find their team (which must already be registered by their captain) and simply click a link on the teams profile page to request to add themselves to the teams roster. Once a request is made, the team captain will receive an email notifying them of the request. The captain will then visit their team page to view the request (along with any other outstanding requests) and with a click of the mouse, can either approve or reject the player for the team.

Enjoy!

A game card feature has just been added to Redzone Leagues. The game card is used to help a referee, statistician, etc. to keep track of game stats for individual players during a game. Any game that has not been assigned a score will now display a link to a printable game card.

The game card contains the date, time, location, team names and rosters along with team colours and sections for game time-outs and scores.

This feature is aimed at providing something useful to as many leagues as possible, but may be missing some information for other leagues. If you feel something is missing or there are some problems that you are experiencing using the game cards, please leave a comment or post a message to the forum

We’ve recently made some changes to make it easier for users to signup for a league account.

• Optional email address for administrators creating new users.
• Optional password.
• Optional address information and home phone number.

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The Redzone Leagues website got a fresh coat of varnish today. The goal of the new layout is to provide new and existing users with information that is not only easier to find, but also presented in a cleaner, more polished fashion.

Like always, if you have feedback we’d love to hear from you!