UPDATE 11-20-24: How Ramp is Helping Address League Challenges
The league has consistently struggled with delays in the schedule change process, including decision timing, official changes, and communicating those changes to towns and parents.
When schedules are created for the League season, an automated scheduling program generates all games and matchups, ensuring each team receives at least 8 games.
This functionality mirrors that of TS, but with enhanced visibility.
Teams will view their schedules and changes on the SCLA websites, participating towns' Ramp websites, and the Team App, making it accessible to all parents.
Officials will have their game assignments mirrored from Arbiter (but not integrated). The assigner or official will be able to update their availability and receive immediate email communication or use the Ramp Officials mobile app for game assignments.
In the next two weeks, we will be orienting our Assigners with the Ramp system.
We are implementing the Ramp mobile app for officials to create efficiencies with the SCLA.
Manual schedules and reconciliation between the league and Assigners/Officials will be eliminated.
The system offers visible games, easy assignment and acceptance, and an official's app for viewing assignments.
A streamlined billing process reduces administrative work for both officials and SCLA.
The full season of games is visible to assigners and officials.
Assigners can update assignments via website or mobile app.
Officials receive live updates through the mobile app.
The system allows for quick responses to game changes, assignments, and availability updates.
Towns finalize their rosters and teams before the league season starts. As with TS, they can move players, and rosters sync with teams.
Ramp offers enhanced visibility—teams and rosters update and sync with the SCLA website hourly, and appear immediately in the Team app for parents.
We often make changes throughout the season up until the playoffs when they are finalized and floaters (Ramp Terminology: AP or Affiliated Players) return back to their original team.
This process is manual and not in TS, but with Ramp its automated and with approval mechanisms for AP players (floaters).
Instead of a spreadsheet, towns can make player changes in their local rosters.
Coaches can assign players as AP players, even before the game.
These rosters and AP players are visible to both teams and coaches must sign off with scorekeeper.
All AP players go through approval process and are tracked throughout the season in order to align with league rules.
Problems arise when parents don't show up, are unprepared, or face additional difficulties.
Incomplete, legible and accurate scoresheets.
Roster changes, coach/parent confirming rosters day of game.
Floater eligibility and tracking
Player behavior and penalty tracking
Missing Officials signatures.
Completing scoresheets, photographing them and emailing to league.
Scores, stats and standings delayed and not visible to town and parents during or after game.
Ramp offers part of the solution:
Mobile app for scoring and Gamesheets (scoresheets)
Coaches or team parents sign off on rosters on game day
Documentation of player behavior issues and incident tracking
Officials can document incidents, decisions, and sign off on final scores
Scorekeepers complete the solution:
Scheduled similarly to officials for games
Receive Gamesheet codes for each game they score
Hold coaches accountable for pre-game changes and AP players
Finalize and upload game completion to the league
Advantages
Recruitment of scorekeepers from parents, students, and young adults
Integration with the same system as officials for assignment, scheduling, and payment
In-app communication among assigners, officials, scorekeepers, and SCLA
SCLA communicates game changes to assigners
Assigners or SCLA update schedules via website or app (SCLA won't change assignments without assigners' approval)
Assigners can allow Officials/Scorekeepers to select or reject changed games once familiar with the system
Officials/Scorekeepers receive approved updates via mobile app (email notifications available)
Officials/Scorekeepers receive game codes, sign off after games, and can input notes or issues
SCLA accountability for Officials/Scorekeepers
Complete history of games, earnings, and payments available
Weekly payments processed by SCLA through Bill.com
Easy reconciliation of payments through Bill.com and mobile app
We will orient officials and scorekeepers with the Ramp system in January.