How do I Create, Edit, and Delete Sports?

Updated Since 1/12/2026

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Sections

How do I create sports?
What are the additional sport settings?
How do I edit my sports?
How do I delete my sports?

How do I create sports?

1. Click Resources.

2. Under the sub-tab Sports/Levels, click the green plus sign (+).

3. Enter the Sport Name. 

4. Select the Generic Sport from the drop-down menu.

5. Select all the Generic Levels that will be played for this sport.

Youth Recreation: Private or community club sports programs for youth under 18 years old.

Intramural: Recreational sports programs that are played within a specific organization, school, or business.

Scholastic: School-based competitive sports programs which compete against other schools, with teams in any grade from kindergarten to 12th.

Collegiate: Competitive sports programs that compete at the college level, such as NCAA or NAIA-affiliated colleges and junior colleges.

Professional: Commercial sports programs in which players compete as paid members of a sports team.

Adult Recreation: Private or community club sports programs for adults.

6. Name the positions. Click on the green plus sign (+) under "Positions Names in Sport." 

7. Type the name of the position.

8. Click the blue floppy disk icon on the left to save. 

Tip: After you add your position names, you can use the blue up and down arrows on the right side to reorder the positions as needed.

Once your sport is created, you can set up your Levels and Positions. Click here to begin setting up your Levels.

What are the additional sport settings?

Subsite Term: The subsite is the actual field of competition where the game is played. For example, if your generic sport is baseball, your subsite term might be “Diamond.” 

Affiliation: Many Arbiter groups are affiliated with national and international governing bodies of sports. If the sport you are adding is affiliated with any such organization, you can select the appropriate organization from the drop-down menu. 

Note: If your affiliation is not listed, please feel free to contact Arbiter and request that it be added to the list.

Share: This allows your officials to receive assignments for multiple sports on the same day. 

Change Level:  Checking this box will allow your contacts to change the game level when adding or editing their games. This can be useful when schools or club organizers have to resolve scheduling conflicts after an initial schedule has been created.

Position Names in Sport Settings

When creating your position names, you can select the checkboxes for certain rules that apply to the position:

In Rotation: Allows you to rotate the position among the assigned officials on a game. This is useful for linked games, such as double-headers, where you may wish for officials to swap positions between games.

Skip Count: This setting will tell the system to not count assignments for this position when assigning games. This is useful when you only care about equal distribution of assignments for one specific position, but not others in the same sport. For example, you may wish to equally distribute home plate assignments, but you don’t care about equal assignments for base assignments, so you should check the Skip Count box for the Base position name.

Evaluator: Marks the position as an evaluator role. This can allow for additional rules regarding visibility, evaluations, and payroll.

Visible to Official: Only active for evaluator positions. Allows the position and the assigned evaluator to be visible to other officials assigned to the game.

Visible to Contact: Allows the position and the assigned evaluator to it to be visible to contacts who are attached to the game.

How do I edit my sports?

After you have saved your sport, you can come back and edit any of the information by clicking on the edit pencil icon. You can then edit any information in your sport as needed.

For position names, there is a separate edit pencil icon that you can click on to access and edit the information.

How do I delete my sports?

Note: Before you can delete a sport, everything connected to it must be deleted first. Please follow the links below to learn how to delete the necessary entities in the following order:
Delete Games - All games related to the sport must be archived AND permanently deleted.
Delete Teams - All teams related to the sport must be deleted.
Delete Levels - All levels tied to the sport must be deleted.

After the entities listed above have been deleted, navigate to the Resources tab. On the Sports page, delete the sport by clicking on the red "X" on the left side. Click OK to confirm.

Tip: An alternative solution to deleting a sport is by renaming it to "Do Not Use" by clicking on the edit pencil icon. The sport will remain in the account, but the title will indicate that it should not be used. This option is only recommended as a short-term solution.

If the necessary entities have been deleted, but the sport still will not delete, please contact our Support Department and request for us to remove any flag-deleted Levels, Teams, and Games connected to that sport.

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