1.       The first thing you’ll notice on the site is a ‘Scoreboard Ribbon’ across the top of the home page. This ribbon will show games results from +/- 3 days from now. For example, on a Tuesday it will show all of the previous weekends games, On a Thursday it will show all of the upcoming games for the next weekend. This isn’t programmable, so I can’t change the timing, it simply is what it is. You’ll notice you can see what time a game is scheduled for, when it’s Final, or if it’s In Progress (more on that below).

2.       At the bottom of the home page we now have a fully automated League Standings graphic. The second a game goes ‘Final’ these standings will be updated. Team Names and Logos link to that teams page.

3.       League Leaderboard -  From the home page on the left hand menu there’s a link to the ‘Leaderboard’. All of these individual leaders are auto populated and will be tracked real time. If someone hits a homerun to take the league lead, the site will reflect it when it’s scored.

4.     League Button – on the home page, in the menu running across the top of the page you’ll see a blue ‘League’ button. This will take you to a new page from where you can jump to each of the new Team Pages. Also on this new page is a ‘Game Schedule’ (the entire league schedule), ‘Statistics’ (the entire leagues statistical data), and ‘Standings’ (a reflection of what’s currently on the home page).

5.       Historical Team – home page, left hand menu is a Historical Team button. With the upgrade to a ‘League package’ we lose the direct link to our historical data. But not to fear stat junkies, we haven’t lost the link forever. From this page you’ll be able to drill down to our old team pages. From there you can use the dropdown in the upper right hand corner to scroll all the way back to the 2008-09 season stats/rosters/etc. Most player profile pages have been linked to individual stats already. If you have prior year’s stats on the site you can use the drop down just above your name (see below) to go back to past seasons.

6.       Our web hosts, NGIN, have launched a free mobile app. I believe it’s only currently available for iPhone users, keep checking Android users.  This app will let you see your team’s schedule/results, stats, league standing, roster and upcoming league events. You can only follow 1 team at a time, but for an additional $3.99/year they will remove the ads and allow you to link to multiple teams. Check this link for more info Sport NGIN

7.       Finally…my favorite new feature…LIVE IN-GAME SCORING. That’s right, our stat keepers will be using an iPad/Laptop at the field to score our game electronically. You will be able to follow the action from the comfort of your living room (or wherever else you might be scouring the internet from). The program is still in BETA testing by the web host and there are some limitations to the software (to be addressed at a later time)  For a quick run through….

 

a.       Any game that has a green ‘In Progress’ can be followed live. Games that are final have all this info available too.

b.      Once launched, you’ll see a 7 inning score board with current inning, balls, strikes, outs

c.       The Game Summary will give you a quick look at the Game Leaders

d.      Play-by-Play tab will show you exactly that…every play that’s happened. (click on the + sign for more details on individual plays)

e.      Game Stats will give you a live box score, combined Team Stats or more in depth Player Stats