Setting Up League Structure and Creating Divisions

Divisions are important to the structure of your leagues.  You can set your divisions up in a number of ways.  Let’s talk look at an example league that runs multiple divisions.

Pretend we have a hockey organisation that has Adult Hockey leagues and Junior Hockey Leagues.  They also run an annual tournament for called the Super Tournament.

For Adult Hockey they have A Grade, B Grade and C Grade competitions.
For Junior they have Bantam, Midget and Peewee competitions.
In the Super Tournament they have Adult A Grade, Adult B Grade and Adult C Grade plus Bantam, Midget and Peewee divisions.  
They run a weekly pickup game on Tuesdays.  
They also run weekly Senior and Junior training sessions.

In this example, it would probably make most sense to create 5 Division Groups called Adult Hockey, Junior Hockey, Super Tournament, Pickup Hockey and Training.  Then we would place the appropriate divisions into each group.  It would look something like this - The Bold Words would be the Division Groups and the Non-Bold words are the Divisions:

Division Groups	Adult Hockey	Junior Hockey	Super Tournament	Pickup Hockey	Training
Divisions	A Grade B Grade C Grade	Bantam Midget Peewee	Adult A Grade Adult B Grade Adult C Grade Bantam Midget Peewee	Tuesdays	Senior Junior

You should:

1. Create Your Own structure with a pen and paper.  Once you know how your division structure looks on paper we can create the Division Groups and Divisions and put them into the correct groups.
2. Think about having a logo for each of your Division Groups and Divisions.  Division logos are important because they make it easy for people to identify which league they are in, making it easy to navigate your website and adds a level of branding for your league!  Cool Division Logos get people excited to play in your league.  XSYTE provides basic division logos you can use free of charge or you can contact us to make you some custom division logos.  It’s $10 per logo, but totally worth it!

Add a Division Group

Create Division Groups to organise your divisions.  

Procedure

1. Log in to your XSYTE, and go to the admin area by clicking the Admin link
2. Go to League > Divisions
3. Click Manage Division Groups button
4. Click Add Division Groups item
5. Type in the name of the group and select a logo.
6. Save the Division Group.
7. Click Back to Divisions button to return to divisions

Create a Division

Creating a division will allow you to run leagues and competitions within that division.

Procedure

1. Log in to your xsyte, and go to the admin area by clicking the Admin link
2. Go to League > Divisions
3. Select Add Division
4. Select a logo for the division and type a name.
5. Note: When selecting a division type, if you select tournament, all stats will be cumulative instead of being separated into exhibition/regular season/playoff stats.