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A page which outlines the web admin steps necessary to get a new season off the ground.


Before Registration

Decisions to Make

Finance Director
  • The costs to register

Steps to Take

  1. Disable the “Register Late” page
  2. Create new PayPal “Buy Now” button for the new season.
  3. “Register Now” page updates
    • Update the season and complete_redraft hidden fields
    • Change the text prices
  4. “Pay Now” page updates
    • Replace the PayPal button code

During registration

Steps to Take

Finance director
  • Monitor registration and PayPal notifications to fix mismatches.
Player Personnel Director
  • Provide a list of incoming and outgoing managers to the website privileges manager. New managers will need to be promoted from “Player” to “Manager”.

After registration closes

Decisions to Make

Player Personnel Director

A spreadsheet that has two important tabs:

  1. a list of teams and managers for the new season
  2. the draft order that teams will pick in
  3. Disable the “Register Now” page.
  4. Enable the “Register Late” page.

Steps to take

  • [Web services director] Use “SUPER USER > Upload Teams” to load a new version of each team in ness_team (for fall seasons, there will be fewer teams)
  • (for supplemental drafts only) [Software support] Assign returning players to new version of the same team (or to the draft if their team collapsed for the fall)  using assignment/propose-returning-assignments.php
  • [Web services director] Use “SUPER USER > Upload Draft Order” to load the draft order list into ness_drafts

Once the team list is complete

In other words, the number of teams and the name of each team has been decided.

Decisions to Make

Scheduling director
  • A complete schedule for the new season

Steps to Take

  • Load the new schedule

After tryouts

Decisions to Make

Player Personnel Director
  • pictures of all the new players

Steps to take

  • Crop the picture using a square proportion
  • Upload the pictures to images/players

After draft is complete

Decisions to Make

Player Personnel Director
  • [supplemental drafts only] For replacement purposes, an estimated draft-round for all new players 

Steps to take

  • Update the draft-rounds for new players
  • Unhide the players page.