What this helps you do
A league's calls are the decisions only the league makes: a field or venue change, a weather decision, a game time change, a division notice, an officials instruction, a deadline for coaches, the opening day and postseason details. Send carries each one from the league to the one audience you pick, by email to people who receive by email and on Blasts to people who connected, so the teams it touches hear it from the league instead of through each coach.
When to use it
Send the moment the league decides. For a change that touches several teams in one division, send to the division. For teams in different divisions, send to each team, with the same words. When officials are involved, send to Officials too.
How to do it
- Open Send, pick the audience, and start from a template such as Field or venue change or League weather decision.
- Put the schedule link in the message: the league system keeps the schedule, and the message points to it.
- Add a map or a parking diagram as an attachment only for people on Blasts; for everyone else, link to it.
- Send now, or schedule it. An immediate send can be cancelled from Sent & Scheduled for a couple of minutes before it goes.
- Repeat for each further audience the call touches, like Officials.
Example
At 6:40 on a Saturday the league calls off the morning games at North Park. The commissioner sends League weather decision to U10 Division and U12 Division, one send each, and the same message to Officials. The coaches don't have to pass anything on.
Good to know
- Every send goes to exactly one audience; the Hub never works out who a call affects.
- An attached file reaches people on Blasts only; people receiving by email need a link.
- Sending to Whole League asks for a passkey confirmation, so it stays deliberate.
- A YES or NO reply is counted against your league's most recent YES / NO message from the last three days, so two questions in the same weekend mix their answers. Ask for an ordinary reply instead: every reply reaches the league in Conversations. Player availability belongs in the team's app, official assignments in your assigning system, and volunteer slots are confirmed by a person.
- The Hub sends nothing on its own when the weather or the schedule changes: a person at the league makes the call and sends it.