Amerileagues

Our goal is to provide superior customer service which is why we are active managers of our league. Once the schedule has been published, we do not sit back and relax, we are actively involved in the day to day operations of our league. Here are a few examples or our active management style.

Resolution Management: We take any reports of referee, coach, player, or parent misconduct very seriously and are actively involved in settling disputes that occur during the season. We don't drag all of our member organizations into 3 hour meetings to discuss discipline, we set the guidelines and parameters up front, and then we work with the individual member organizations involved in the dispute.

Schedule Re-Balancing: We re-balance schedules during the winter break by identifying teams that are either dominating their competition or have been clearly outmatched. It is not a simple task to alter schedules in the middle of the season, but it is the right thing to do to provide the best overall basketball experience for our coaches, players, and families. We are happy to do this at the request of coordinators and coaches with as little impact as possible to other teams..

We at Amerileagues pride ourselves on providing the best communication in the business. Better communication is a priority for us and our league has the technology and processes in place to make this happen. Coordinators, coaches, players, and parents can be informed in near-real time of important schedule changes and league announcements. Here is a sample of the types of notifications that are available.

Game Change Notifications: Email and text message updates are sent when a scheduled game is postponed, canceled, or the original time or location of the game is changed

Tournament Score Updates: Anyone can receive real-time score updates on their mobile device for our post-season tournament by subscribing to a team or all teams in a bracket

Game Score Reporting Reminders: An email will arrive during the game which includes a friendly reminder to report the score of the current game and a link to the score reporting form. Coaches love this!!

Gym Schedule Change Notification: Coordinators can stay up-to-date on any schedule changes affecting their home gyms or any of the teams in their organization.

Game schedules are a critical building block of a successful season. We built our own SchedulingEngine to better navigate the complexities of league scheduling and to provide our communities and teams the best possible schedule for their facilities. Our engine allows us to create the right balance of home and away games for our members based on gym availability. In addition, we create sets of games based on skill level so that we can provide the right referees for the right level of play. Here are just a few of the factors that we take into consideration when building your schedule.

Gym Availability: The more gym hours that are allotted by coordinators to the league for game scheduling, the better the final schedule will be. When one ore more organizations do not provide us with enough gym time, the schedule for all organizations suffers. We will schedule games in contiguous time slots in your gyms and group like-skill level games together, to help you coordinate your facility management.

Opponent Balance: While it is not always possible to play everyone in your division once, our algorithms strike a balance in your schedule so that will play as many different opponents as possible.

Referee Assignment: Our scheduling engine allows us to create "sets" of games for similarly skilled divisions. We are then able to schedule appropriate referees for each set of games to provide our coaches and players the best referees available.

Multiple Team Coaches: Some of our coaches are the head coach of multiple teams in our league. We respect their commitment to the youth of our communities and ensure that there are not any conflicts built into their initial game schedule

All divisions will have teams at the top and bottom of the pack, but we strive to give our teams a fighting chance to compete. This starts with having teams play opponents in the same division so our rec teams will never play high-rec or athletic teams and visa-versa. Lopsided games do not benefit the development of our players. In most of our leagues, we work with coordinators to initially place teams in the correct division and will move teams during the winter break to the appropriate playing division, whether that be one division higher or lower based on the results of the first 3 weeks of the season.