General timing
- Sept-Jan - Organizational meetings to discuss/plan upcoming season milestones, define/vote on rules changes, etc.
- Jan
- Toward the middle or end of January, all member organizations must submit information on teams (division, flight, number of teams) that will be added to the season schedule
- Teams must submit field availability (location, dates, times) for scheduling home games
- Feb
- Preseason festival (tournament type game play) to occur prior to weekend of first game
- Usually season starts during the last weekend of February
- March-April
- We don't play games on the weekend before or after spring break
- We don't play games on the weekend of Easter
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May
- Season usually ends first weekend of May
- Playoffs for Red flights occurs the week following the end of regular season
How to join our league
- We focus on non-profit, community or school based teams
- Contact a member of our board to request information on joining our league to determine if your team's charter is in alignment with our organization's charter
- Your team will be invited to attend one of the monthly member meetings. The addition of your team/organization to our league will be voted on by the member organizations.
- Once part of the league, insure a representative from your organization attends future league meetings
About games
- Games will be scheduled on Sundays starting at the end of Feb and will run thru the first week of May
- At least 1 game per team will have to be played on a day other than Sunday since we do not have 8 full weekends of playing time during our normal season
- Games will generally be scheduled to start between 1-5p.
- Teams will play other teams in the same division and flight, and if possible, in the same region of central Texas. Sometimes we do not have enough teams in a particular region so games may be scheduled with teams in other regions of the area.
What has to happen before the season for all teams
- Organize your teams, hold registration, determine your team make up
- Reserve your home field for at least 4 home games (2 hr timeslot per game) - be sure to reserve your home field for at least 1-2 days that are not on Sundays
- Submit your teams into the database/website we use for scheduling games
- Submit your field availability dates/times into our scheduling database/website
- Pay the league due for each of your teams
What does the league do for you
- Facilitates scheduling of 8 games per team
- Trains/schedules referees for each game
What do you need to do for home games
- Insure the game field is setup at least 30 mins prior to start of game - setup goals, cones to mark field, all lines are painted/visible
- Home team must provide personnel to manage scorer's table (timer, scorer) - as these are representatives from only one team then these personnel are expected to remain impartial during game time (no cheering for home team please)
- Document final score in score book, get referee signature on game results, then report final score in our game/scheduling database/website
- Manage parents on game day, no parents are allowed on player side of the field (except home team scorer/timer and up to 2 representatives from visiting team who are keeping player stats for their team)
- In the event of the need to cancel a game on game day, the home team is responsible for contacting the opposing team's coach as soon as possible to notify of the cancellation
Division, Flights
- Our teams are divided into flights based on skills/competitive level of teams. In general:
- Red flight - advanced teams, attend playoffs at end of season
- Blue flight - intermediate teams, do not attend playoff at end of season
- White flight - beginner teams, do not attend playoffs at end of season
- Other color flights - sometimes we create other color flights to allow us to organize specific teams to play together
- Reference flight guide for guidelines on determining what flight should be assigned to a team
- Our teams are divided into divisions based on grades
- Bantam: K-2 grades
- Lightning: 3-4 grades
- Junior: 5-6 grades
- Senior: 7-8 grades
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