Add, Edit, and Delete Teams

Sections:
Add Teams
- Game Defaults
Squads
Edit Teams
- Game Defaults
- Roster
- Smart Scheduler
- Workers
Delete Teams

Add Teams

1. Sign into your ArbiterGame account on www.arbitersports.com.
2. Click on the Resources tab.
3. Under the Teams sub-tab, click Create New Team in the upper-right corner.
   1. The next screen that displays allows you to customize your team information by sport, gender, and level as well as to link each team to the appropriate site, sub-site, and game or practice times. There is also an optional setting for having officials assigned by ArbiterOne or by the school.

4. Select the Sport by clicking the blank box.
5. Select the Gender by clicking the blank box.
6. Select the Level by clicking the blank box.
7. Proceed to the next step to set up Game Defaults.

Game Defaults

Location - From the drop-down box, select a site and sub-site where the team regularly plays their home games.

Officiating- From the drop down box, select who will be assigning the officials for this team (you do always have the option to change how the officials are assigned when you are adding the games). If your school will be assigning officials, select "Assigned by School" from the drop-down box and select how many officials will be needed. If you have an ArbiterOne assigner who schedules your officials, select "An ArbiterOne Assigning Group" and follow the steps below to link your assigning group.

To link an assigner:

i. Click Add Another Group.
ii. Enter the 6-digit group ID for your assigner. If you are not sure what this is, your assigner should be able to give that to you.
iii. Select the assigner level.

Times - Optionally, you can setup game time defaults as listed below.

i. Setup - Game setup time
ii. Dismiss Home/Away - What time to dismiss students for home and away games.
iii. Departure Time - What time the team needs to depart for away games.
iv. Game Start time.
v. Game Duration - How many hours/minutes the games last.
vi. Clean Up - Select a clean up time after the game.

Squads
Adding squads is the same process as adding the initial team. 

1. In your ArbiterGame account, click the Resources tab.
2. Click Create New Team.
3. Select a sport.
4. Select a gender.
5. Select a level.
6. A box will pop-up on the screen to set up your squad. Enter a name in the "Original Team Squad name" and enter the name of the squad in the "Squad name" field. 
7. Click Done Adding Squad Name.
8. Proceed to add the game default settings for your squad team and click Create Team.

 

Edit Teams

1. Sign into your ArbiterGame account and go to the Resources tab.
2. Under the Teams tab, click on the team name to edit.

3. On the Edit Team page, you can make any changes needed. See the information below for more details about the different settings and functions under a team that can be modified. (Game Defaults, Roster, Smart Scheduler, Workers, and Followers).
   1. The sport, gender, and level cannot be changed.

 

4. Click Save Changes at the bottom when done.

Game Defaults
 

Location - From the drop-down box, select a site and sub-site where the team regularly plays their home games.

Officiating- From the drop down box, select who will be assigning the officials for this team (you do always have the option to change how the officials are assigned when you are adding the games). If your school will be assigning officials, select "Assigned by School" from the drop-down box and select how many officials will be needed. If you have an ArbiterOne assigner who schedules your officials, select "An ArbiterOne Assigning Group" and follow the steps below to link your assigning group.

To link an assigner:

i. Click Add Another Group.
ii. Enter the 6-digit group ID for your assigner. If you are not sure what this is, your assigner should be able to give that to you.
iii. Select the assigner level.

Times - Optionally, you can setup game time defaults as listed below.

i. Setup - Game setup time
ii. Dismiss Home/Away - What time to dismiss students for home and away games.
iii. Departure Time - What time the team needs to depart for away games.
iv. Game Start time.
v. Game Duration - How many hours/minutes the games last.
vi. Clean Up - Select a clean up time after the game.

Roster

If you haven't added your students to your Arbiter Scheduling account, refer to this Importing Students into ArbiterGame article.

1. There are two ways you can get to your team's roster. In your ArbiterGame account, click the Resources tab. Under Teams, you can either click on the Jersey icon to load the roster for that team, or click the team name to edit and then click the Roster section.
2. Click Add Players.

3. Select the Players to add to the team. You will have the option to enter the student’s position, jersey number, weight, and height.
4. After selecting all of the players, click Add Students to Roster.

 

*To edit/add team member information, click directly on the athlete's name and make any changes necessary. 

Note: you may also add them to previous years of participation

Click the links below to access articles with more details about students.
Importing Students to Teams
Competitive Balance

Smart Scheduler

The Smart Scheduler allows you to set up rules to have additional games entered when you enter a single game.
 

1. Click on the "Add New" button.

 

2. Select the team from the drop-down box.
3. Select the Hour.
4. Select the Day.
5. Select if the site will be the same site or if the home/away sites will swap.
6. Click Save.

 

Workers

You can add any default event workers under this section when adding/editing teams. Typically this is used if you have a particular scorekeeper, announcer, or other types of workers for that particular team. Any workers added here will automatically be assigned to any game you add for that team. 

1. Click on the Add New button.

1. Select the position from the drop-down box.
2. Select the worker from the drop-down box.
3. Optionally you can enter a fee if it's the worker is paid the same amount each game. It can also be entered/changed on the game itself if needed.
4. Click Save.

Click HERE for further instructions about adding event workers.
Click HERE for further instructions about managing event workers.

Followers

This section simply lists any ArbiterLive followers for that particular team. See the ArbiterLive section in School Settings for more information about ArbiterLive.



Delete Teams

Before a team can be deleted, all games under that team must be deleted first. If there are any games or events under the team that you want to delete, the delete option will not be available.

To see if a team has games/events, refer to the calendar icon and the roster icon on the far right side next to the team.
 

Deleting Teams without Games:

1. Click on the team name that you wish to delete.
2. Scroll to the bottom of the edit page.
3. Click Delete Team.

Deleting Teams with Games
In order to delete the team, you will either need to delete the games under that team, or reassign those games to another team.

1. Reassign to another team:

i. Click on the team that you wish to delete.
ii. At the bottom of the page, click Delete Team.
iii. Before deleting this team, select the team that roster and games till be reassigned to. Select the new team from the drop-down box.
iv. Click Delete Team.

 

2. Delete the games:

i. Click on the schedule tab.
ii. Filter for the games that are under that team.
iii. Delete those games.
iv. Follow the steps above for deleting teams without games.