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Create a New Season   Create a New Tournament
How to create a new season as well as make changes to it.   How to create a new tournament as well as make changes to it.
 
Roster Management   Player Profiles
How to create, add, or remove players from a specific season or tournament.   How to edit a player's profile as well as upload their profile image.
 
Schedule Management   Entering Game Results
How to add and remove games from a season or tournament schedule.   How to enter boxscores or change a game status to a rainout or a forfeit.
 
Game Statistics   Standings
How to enter player batting, pitching or fielding statistics per game.   How to post the season or tournament standings on the team home page.
 
Team News   Team Forums
How to enter news items or game recaps as well as posting headline images.   How to create categories as well censor or block unwanted users from your team forum.
 
Team Settings Menu   Logos & Banners
A short description of the team settings menu where team administrators can change display settings as well as edit things such as opponent names as well as field locations.   How to upload a team logo or team banner.
 
Edit Page Header   Change Colors
How to tweak the header located on the top of each page.   How to change the site's primary, secondary, and link colors to match your team colors.
 
Statistical Settings   Edit Background Image
How to change statistical settings including type of batting, pitching, or fielding statistics you want to use as well as other statistical settings including typical game length by innings.   How to add, remove, or edit a page background image.
 
Blocking Unwanted Users   Censorship
How to block unwanted users from posting on your team site.   How to add or remove words from being censored on your team site.
 
Team Overlord   Team Administrators
How to remove yourself as the team overlord and make another team administrator the team overlord.   How to grant other users administrative access.
 
Locking Seasons or Tournaments   Team Links
How to lock specific seasons or tournaments from being edited.   How to add links to other sites on your team home page.
 
 
Field Locations    
How to add, remove, or edit field locations.    
 
 
 
Users with administrative access must first sign in and click 'seasons' from the administrative options located at the top of their page to create or edit a season. Stats Fanatics allows users to keep track of multiple active seasons at the same time as well as go back and make changes to completed seasons.

To edit a specific season, click 'edit' from the 'EDIT' column for that specific season. Once a season is created, team administrators can still make changes to it as long as it is not locked by the team overlord.

A season cannot be deleted if it contains games played or if it is locked by the team overlord. You also cannot delete a season if no other seasons or tournaments exist. To delete a season, click 'delete' from the 'DELETE' column for that specific season. When deleting a season, all scheduled games, roster information, news items and news comments associated with that season get deleted too.

To create a new season:
1) Click the 'create season' button at the bottom of the page.
2) Select an existing league organization or select 'other' to create a new one.
3) Enter the season description. For example: 2006, 2007, Summer 2007, etc.
4) Select an existing level of play or select 'other' to create a new one. For example: Seniors, AAA, Minors, C+, etc.
5) Enter the season start date.
6) If you are entering a season already played and your team won that season's championship then select yes.
7) Click the 'Create Season' button.

The team overlord can lock or unlock a season inside of the 'edit season' page to keep administrators from making changes to it. It's good practice to lock a completed season so someone doesn't accidently make unwanted changes to it. To learn more about locking or unlocking a season, please click here.
 
 
 
Users with administrative access must first sign in and click 'tournaments' from the administrative options located at the top of their page to create or edit a tournament. Stats Fanatics allows users to keep track of multiple active tournaments at the same time as well as go back and make changes to completed tournaments.

To edit a specific tournament, click 'edit' from the 'EDIT' column for that specific tournament. Once a tournament is created, team administrators can still make changes to it as long as it is not locked by the team overlord.

A tournament cannot be deleted if it contains games played or if it is locked by the team overlord. You also cannot delete a tournament if no other seasons or tournaments exist. To delete a tournament, click 'delete' from the 'DELETE' column for that specific tournament. When deleting a tournament, all scheduled games, roster information, news items and news comments associated with that tournament get deleted too.

To create a new tournament:
1) Click the 'create tournament' button at the bottom of the page.
2) Select an existing tournament organization or select 'other' to create a new one.
3) Enter the tournament description. For example: Worlds, Rings, Bang For Bucks, Club Maple Charity, etc.
4) Select an existing level of play or select 'other' to create a new one. For example: B, C+, wreck, All, etc.
5) Enter the tournament start date.
6) If you are entering a tournament already played and your team won that tournament's championship then select yes.
7) Click the 'Create Tournament' button.

The team overlord can lock or unlock a tournament inside of the 'edit tournament' page to keep administrators from making changes to it. It's good practice to lock a completed tournament so someone doesn't accidently make unwanted changes to it. To learn more about locking or unlocking a tournament, please click here.
 
 
 
Users with administrative access must first sign in and click 'edit roster' from the administrative options located at the top of their page to edit a roster. Stats Fanatics allows users to keep track of seasons or tournaments at the same time. If the roster you want to edit isn't the one you are currently looking at, select another season or tournament from the drop down lists near the top of the page.

Each roster has a 40 player limit. To add a player to a roster, select an existing player from the drop down list located on the bottom of the page or select 'other' and enter a new player name and then click 'Add Player'.

You cannot remove a player from a roster if he's played in one or more games for that particular season or tournament. You cannot add or remove players from a roster if the roster has been locked by the team overlord. To edit a player's profile, click 'edit' under the 'EDIT PROFILE' column header.
 
 
 
When logged in as the team overlord or as a team administrator, there are two ways to edit a player's profile. The first is by clicking 'edit' under the 'EDIT PROFILE' column while in the 'edit roster' page. The second is by actually viewing a player's profile and selecting 'edit player details' located just below his personal information.

Within the edit player page, an overlord or an administrator can upload the player's picture maximum 75kb in size and enter the player's personal details, or even grant that particular player access to edit his own profile by entering his email in the identification section. When granted access, a player can edit his own profile details by clicking 'edit player details' while viewing his profile. However, only the team overlord or a team administrator can upload or remove a player image or change the player's real name. Also, a player must currently have an account with Stats Fanatics in order to give him access to his player profile.
 
 
 
Users with administrative access must first sign in and click 'edit schedule' from the administrative options located at the top of the page. Stats Fanatics allows users to keep track of multiple seasons or tournaments at the same time. If the schedule you want to edit isn't the one you are currently looking at, select another season or tournament from the drop down lists near the top of the page.

To edit an already scheduled game, click 'edit' from the 'DETAILS' column for that specific game. Once a game is scheduled, team administrators can still make changes to it as long as it is not locked by the team overlord.

To delete a scheduled game, click 'delete' from the 'GAME' column for that specific game. When deleting a game, all statistics associated with that game get deleted too. However, game recaps do not get deleted but instead become an ordinary news item.

To add a scheduled game:
1) Click the 'add game' button at the bottom of the page.
2) Enter a game date and select a game time.
3) Select if the game is a regular season game, a postseason game, or a championship game.
4) Select if your team is home or away.
5) Select an existing opponent or select 'other' and then enter a new opponent's name.
6) Select an existing field location or select 'other' and then enter a new location name. You can enter the address for this location in the Team Settings menu under Field Locations.
7) Click the 'Add Game' button.

To report the score of a game or report the game as cancelled, or postponed, or as a forfeit, click 'Edit' under the 'EDIT STATUS' column and select the game status from the dropdown menu. To enter a score, select 'Game Completed' from the drop down and enter the final score. You may also enter box score details if you have any. To learn more about entering a box score, please click here.

After a scheduled game is completed, the team overlord or a team administrator can enter a game recap by clicking 'Add' in the 'RECAP' column. After a game recap is submitted, a headline image for that recap can be upload by clicking 'Add' under the image column. To learn more about creating game recaps, news items, and headline images then please click here.

You cannot edit or add games to a schedule if that season or tournament is locked.
 
 
 
Users with administrative access must first sign in and then click 'edit schedule' from the administrative options located at the top of the page. Stats Fanatics allows users to keep track of multiple seasons or tournaments at the same time. If the schedule you want to edit isn't the one you are currently looking at, select another season or tournament from the drop down lists near the top of the page.

To report the score of a game or change it's status from scheduled to a forfeit, cancelled, or postponed, click 'Edit' under the 'EDIT STATUS' column and select the game status from the drop down menu.

To enter a score, select 'Game Completed' from the drop down and enter the final score. If you select 'Game Completed' and do not enter a score then the game will be saved as a 0 - 0 tie.

When reporting a score, the team admin also has the option of entering the inning by inning runs totals as well as hits and errors by each team. This information is not mandatory. If your team doesn't keep track of this information, you have the option of leaving these details blank.

The box score only displays 9 innings. If your team completed a game that went more than 9 innings, you have the option of displaying the final 9 innings run totals by using the 'Innings Displayed' drop down menu. For example, say if your team played an 11 inning game, select 3 thru 11 and then enter the inning by inning run totals for those 9 innings.

If your team completed a game that was less than 9 innings, you could either leave the unplayed innings blank or fill them in with an 'X'.

You cannot change the status of a scheduled game in a locked season or tournament.
 
 
 
Users with administrative access must first sign in and then click 'Game Stats' from the administrative options located at the top of the page. Stats Fanatics allows users to keep track of multiple seasons or tournaments at the same time. If the game you want to edit isn't in the current season or tournament you're looking at, select another season or tournament from the drop down lists near the top of the page.

One of this biggest strengths of Stats Fanatics is that it allows team administrators to easily enter and keep track of their players statistics. Team Administrators have the option of entering batting statistics, pitching statistics, or even fielding statistics. To take advantage of this feature, a team administrator must first purchase 'Game Tokens' to enter game statistics on a token per game basis. Tokens can be purchased from the Game Stats page or from the 'My Account' page. All tokens purchased for one team CANNOT be transefered to another team's account. To use a game token on a completed game, click 'Use Token' in the Game Tokens column. If the game ends up getting cancelled or if you don't want to record the stats for this game, click 'Return Token' and that particular Game Token gets credited back to your team account. Also, if a game that contains stats later gets deleted from the schedule, that game token also gets returned to the team's account.

To change the type of statistics your team keeps track of, click the Statistical Settings link in the Team Settings page.

Before entering player statistics for a particular game, you first need to enter the score for that game in the Edit Schedule page. Then you need to make sure that all of the players involved in the game are currently on your roster. If not, go back to the Edit Roster page and add them in.

Entering game statistics is a pretty simple process. First click whether you want to 'Add' or 'Edit' batting statistics, pitching statistics, or fielding statistics. While in one of those pages, select the players involved in the game from the drop down menus at the begining of each row. Any rows without a selected player will not be saved. You can enter player statistics for up to 25 players in each statistical category. When entering a player's game totals, any statistics field left blank will be saved as zero. When you are done entering the statistics, click 'save totals' located at the bottom of the page.

You cannot enter or edit game statistics within a locked season or tournament.
 
 
 
Users with administrative access must first sign in and go to the team home page. Stats Fanatics allows users to keep track of multiple seasons or tournaments at the same time. If the standings you want to edit isn't in the current season or tournament you're looking at, select another season or tournament from the drop down lists near the top of the page.

While in the team home page, click 'EDIT STANDINGS' located in the right column.

Once in the the 'edit standings' page, enter the names of the teams, wins, losses, and ties. If you're entering season standings, enter how many games back each team is in the GB column or '--' for the leader. If you're entering tournament standings, enter each team's place of finish in the PLACE column. Rows without a team name are not saved.

You cannot enter or edit standings for a locked season or tournament.
 
 
 
There are two types of news items. The first is a 'game recap' that is associated with a particular game and created and edited inside of the 'edit schedule' page. The second is a 'news item' that is associated with a particular season or tournament and is created in the 'News' page. Please notice that you can also edit game recaps while in the news items page. The 5 most recent recaps or news items are displayed on the home page.

To create a news item, users with administrative access must first sign in and then click 'News' from the administrative options located at the top of the page. Stats Fanatics allows users to keep track of multiple seasons or tournaments at the same time. Select the season or tournament from the drop down lists near the top of the page that you want to create a news item in and click 'Create News Item' at the bottom of the page.

When creating a recap or a news item, you must enter a date, a title, and content. If you do not enter an author's name, it will default to your user name.

You cannot use HTML when creating a recap or news item. If you want to include a link or bold a particular word then please use the BB Code tags listed near the bottom of the page.

When you are finished creating your game recap or news item, press the submit button.

If you want to add a headline image to your game recap or news item, click 'Add' in the 'IMAGE' column. Administrators can upload an image that is maximum 75kb in size. Administrators also have the option of adding a border around the image or entering an image headline that will be displayed below it.

When you are done choosing an image and entering the image details, click the 'submit image' button located at the bottom of the page.

If you want to delete a news item or a game recap, the image associated with that item as well as all related user comments will be deleted too. You cannot enter, edit or delete game recaps or news items that are in a locked season or tournament.
 
 
 
While logged in as the team overlord or an administrator, click the 'Forums' link to view the list of forum categories. To add a category, enter it at the bottom of the page and click submit. If you delete a category, all topics and posts within that category will be deleted too.

Admins can also delete topics within a category. If a topic is deleted, all posts within that topic are also deleted.

While viewing user posts, the team administrator has the option of deleting undesirable posts or blocking undesirable users from posting on your team site. Team administrators cannot block each other! Administrators can unblock users by going to the 'Settings' menu and clicking 'Blocked List'. To learn more about blocking unwanted users, please click here.

The team overlord and team administrators also can censor specific words in the forum by going to the 'Settings' menu and clicking the 'Censorship' link. To learn more about censorship please click here.
 
 
 
The team setting menu provide team administrative options for editing site details such as display settings, statistical settings, team details, blocking unwanted users, censorship, field locations, organizations, levels of play, and opponents.

When logged in as the team overlord, extra options appear for granting specific users administrative access and the ability to make someone else the team overlord.
 
 
 
Teams can display their own team logo as well as their own team banner on the top of each page.

To upload a logo, team administrators must first sign in and then go to the settings menu. From the settings menu click 'team logo'. Logos are restricted to 75kb or less in size.

To upload a banner, team administrators must first sign in and then go to the settings menu. From the settings menu click 'team banner'. Banners are restricted to 100kb or less in size and 800px or less in width. Banners less then 800px in width are automatically centered in the header.
 
 
 
One of the goals of Stats Fanatics is to allow teams to customize the look of their team page as much as possible. One of the ways to do this is to give team owners the ability to tweak the header located on the top of every page.

To edit the page header, team administrators must first sign in and then go to the settings menu. From the settings menu click 'edit page header'.

To change the link colors, select the link colors you want to use from the drop down. If you have your own team banner displayed inside of the header, you have the option of adding padding above and below the banner by selecting None or 1 to 25 pixels from the drop down menu. To learn more about uploading a team banner please click here.

You also have the ability to choose whether you want the season description to appear above or below the bottom links.

After you are done with your changes, click the 'Submit Changes' button.

To change the colors of the header you need to go to 'change page colors' located in the settings menu. To learn more about changing colors please click here.
 
 
 
One of the ways we give team owners more control over the look of their team page is to give them the ability to edit their primary color, secondary color, page background color, font colors, and link colors.

To change or edit your team page display colors, team administrators must first sign in and then go to the settings menu. From the settings menu click 'change page colors'.

When viewing the 'display settings' page, there are two ways to change an item's display color. One way is by entering a color's hexadecimal value. The other way is by clicking a square and selecting a color from the color map that appears.

When you are done making your color changes, click 'save changes' located at the bottom of the page.

Warning: Be careful when changing font colors. If you choose a dark primary color or a dark secondary background color, you should then select a light font otherwise you will have trouble reading the text. The same goes for light colored backgrounds with light colored fonts.

If you want to restore the page colors to the Stats Fanatics default settings, click the link located at the bottom of the 'Change Colors' page.
 
 
 
Stats Fanatics gives team administrators the ability to upload their own page background. Admins also have the ability to choose to repeat the image horizontally and vertically or just horizontally.

To edit the page background, team administrators must first sign in and then go to the settings menu. From the settings menu click 'edit background image'.

When viewing the 'edit background image' page, select a file you want to upload as the background and then select how you want the image displayed.

When you are done, click 'update image' located at the bottom of the page.

Click here to learn how to change the background color.
 
 
 
Stats Fanatics allows team owners to set statistical settings geared towards the statistics they keep record of. For example, if you're team plays softball, then it's unlikely that you need to keep track of stolen bases and caught stealing. If you're team plays baseball, you may or may not want to keep track of pitching or fielding statistics.

To change a team's statistical settings, sign in as a team administrator and go to the settings menu. From the settings menu click 'statistical settings'.

While viewing the statistical settings page, you can edit how many plate appearances per game played does it take a batter to qualify as a team leader on the home page.

Click the boxes next to the statistical leaders you want to display on your homepage. You can choose to display batting average leaders, on base leaders, homerun leaders, slugging percentage leaders and runs batter in leaders.

The 'Default Statistical Setting' drop down let's you set the page defaults to regular season or season totals when users surf your team page.

If your team uses pitching statistics, set the game innings length to your league or tournament's regulation game length so that a RAA or an ERA will reflect it. For example, some leagues play 7 inning games instead of 9 innings so you may want you're total runs given up to be divided by 7 instead of 9 to get a more accurate runs against average per game.

To change the batting, pitching, and fielding statistical settings, select the category you want to use for your site from the dropdowns. As mentioned earlier, you can even turn off pitching or fielding statistics entirely.

Once you are finished editing your statistical settings, click the 'submit changes' button to save your settings.
 
 
 
To edit or create field locations, sign in as an administrator and go to the team settings menu. While in the settings menu, clck 'Field Locations'.

To create a new field location, click the 'Create New Location' button on the bottom of the page. When creating a new location, entering the location's address information is not mandatory if you're not interested in linking that field location to mapquest.

You can edit or delete field locations listed on the field locations page. However, you cannot delete a field location if it is currently being used in a season or tournament's schedule.
 
 
 
Unfortunately, unwanted visitors to your team site is a part of life. Even though all team forums are initially open to the public, you still have the ability to boot specific unwanted posters.

There are two ways to block an unwanted user from posting on your team site:

The first way is by blocking them through the forum. To learn more about this please click here.

The second way to block a user is by signing in and clicking 'Blocked List' inside of the settings menu. To block an unwanted user, enter his user name and the reason why you want to block him for personal reference and then click the 'Block User' button.

To unblock a specific user, simply click 'unblock' located in the 'UNBLOCK' column.
 
 
 
Team administrators have the power of censoring specific words from being used in posts by users throughout your team site.

To censor specific words, team administrators must first sign in and then click 'Word Censor' inside of the settings menu.

The censorship process is pretty simple. All the team administrator has to do is enter the word they want to censor and its replacement. For example, if you want to sensor the word 'Stats'. You would enter 'Stats' as the censored word and you could enter 'S****' as it's replacement.

To uncensor a word, simply click 'remove' located in the 'REMOVE' column.
 
 
 
Every team site has one team overlord. The team overlord is usually the guy who creates the site and is the only one in complete control. The team overlord is the only user who can lock or unlock seasons or tournaments and grant other users administrative access.

If a user no longer wants to be the team overlord, he can give up his title to another team administrator by clicking the 'Team Overlord' link in the settings menu and then by selecting a new team overlord from the drop down list containing team administrators.

Warning: Once you give up the title of team overlord, the only way you can get that title back is if the new team overlord is willing to give it back to you. Also, you will no longer be in control of giving administrative access to users and locking seasons or tournaments.
 
 
 
If a team overlord doesn't want to run the team site from behind the scenes alone, he has the option of bringing in trusted users to help him do the job.

Team Administrators have almost as much control over the team site as the team overlord does. The only things a team administrator does not have control over is giving administrative access to other users as well as locking or unlocking seasons or tournaments.

To add team administrators, the team overlord must first sign in and then click 'Team Administrators' in the settings menu.

Once in the team administrators page, you can add a team administrator by entering his email and clicking the 'Add Administrator' button. When adding a team administrator, the user must currently have an account with Stats Fanatics.

To remove a team administrator, simply click 'Remove' under the 'REMOVE' column.
 
 
 
To keep team administrators from making unwanted changes to specific seasons or tournaments, the team overlord can lock those seasons or tournaments. Only the team overlord has this power. When a season or tournament is locked, even the team overlord cannot make changes to it until he unlocks it.

To lock or unlock a season, sign in and click 'Seasons' near the top of the page. From inside the seasons page, click 'edit' in the row of the season you want to lock or unlock and select yes or no where it says 'Season Locked'. To save your changes click the 'Submit Changes' button.

To lock or unlock a tournament, sign in and click 'Tournaments' near the top of the page. From inside the tournaments page, click 'edit' in the row of the tournament you want to lock or unlock and select yes or no where it says 'Tournament Locked'. To save your changse click the 'Submit Changes' button.
 
 
 
In order to setup links on the home page to other sites of interest, sign in and click 'Team Links' inside of the settings menu.

To add a link, simply enter a link title and it's URL and click 'Add Link'. For example, if I wanted to add Stats Fanatics as a link I would enter 'Stats Fanatics' as the title and 'www.StatsFanatics.com' as the URL.

To delete a link, simply click 'Delete' in the row of the unwanted link.
 
 


If you have any more questions, please email us at help@statsfanatics.com.