Building Teams

This article covers how to create a team and assign players and officials (ie. coaches and managers).

Prerequisites

Before you jump into building teams, it's worthwhile having a read of our overview on our Team Management functionality. Please visit:

Team Management Overview

Adding a new Team

To create a new team, simply click on the prominent Add a Team button in the Event Dashboard.

The first field to enter is obvious - the name of the team. For the second setting, the default behaviour of Majestri is for players and parents to be able to navigate to teams that they/their kids belong to as soon as the player is assigned to the team. With this setting, you can override that behaviour so the team construction is done in private until the club is ready to toggle this setting and 'publish' the team lists to members.

Team Dugout

If you've added a team, or if you've clicked on a team name in the Event Dashboard, you'll end up at the central Team Dugout screen, which brings together all elements of the Team Management functionality for a given team.

For an overview of the Team Dugout and what people can do from this screen, please visit:

Team Dugout

Adding Players to a Team

Click the Add Players link on the right-hand side of the screen.

This takes you to the list of registered players who have not yet been allocated to a team. The drop-down list filters on this page come directly from fields on the registration form, so you can filter the set of unallocated players that you want to target. A good example of where this is useful is filtering the players age to match the age group of the team you're building. Simply click the blue plus button on the right-hand side of the player entry to add them to the current team you're populating.

Allocating Players to Multiple Teams

In the first instance, your event settings control whether a player can be allocated to more than one team. For more information on event settings, please visit:

Event Setup Checklist

Locate the link at the top of the screen. It will change the 'mode' of the screen so you can see players already allocated to a team, and will even add a new drop-down filter to limit results by existing team. When you elect to add a player from this list to a team, one of two things will happen:

If the event settings allow a player to be in more than one team, the player will be added to the current team and retain their place in any teams they've already been allocated to.
If the event settings mandates one team per player, then the player will be removed from their current team and added to the team you're populating.

Assigning Team Officials

Modelling your teams is handy, but the ability to put people in operational control of a team is where the value really is. To add a team official to the team you're working with, click the Add a Team Official link on the right-hand side of screen.

A bit like building a committee, you'll be asked to choose somebody from the system and then to select their official role. If the person you're looking for is not in the list, then just type their name in and hit Done. The system will create a new user record on the fly, but ensure you fill in at least the email address field or this person won't be able to access the system.

As soon as you've done this, the new official can get themselves a password to the system and start logging in using the email address that is recorded against their user record. They won't see the Control Room (unless they're on the committee), but they do get full access to this team's unique Team Page. This gives them the tools to take control of the team and manage the week-to-week operations.

At this point, it's not uncommon for newly-appointed team officials to have a couple of issues accessing the system, and it's normally to do with the email address they're trying to use. For a list of common issues and resolutions, please visit:

Questions?

If you've reviewed our guidance and still have more questions, chances are that somebody's already asked it before. To see a list of questions and answers already documented, please visit:

Team Management FAQ

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