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Players

In order to create your nomination list, you must first add players. The initial player entry will involve everyone who will be nominated for the coming league, but for subsequent leagues and years, you will only need to update the list to include new players.

From the club login page, select "Add Players".

Simply add in the player names, and optionally the England Squash Membership number. There is no significance to the order in which you enter players and when you save the entries, they will be shown in alphabetical surname order. If you will up the boxes provided, simply save the list and additional boxes will be added automatically.

Nomination Lists

Selecting "Nominations" from the admin home page gives an overview of the currently nominated players for each of your teams. This allows you to easily see if anyone has been forgotten or duplicated.

Selecting "Edit Nominations" for a particular team allows you to edit the team nominations, using drop-down lists containing all your players. Obviously, anyone that you wish to nominate must already have been added to your list of Players above.

When entering your nominations for the first half, they are automatically copied to the nominations for the second half, so that when you come to move players around for the second half, you do not have to start from scratch each time.

Match Result Entry

You can now select all players from drop-down lists populated from your nominations as below:

The drop-down list is made up of all players nominated for the selected team or lower. Note that each name in the drop-down list also shows the current nomination for the player

When entering match results, a number of checks are made, but you are not prevented from saving the results, regardless of which players you enter.

The following requirements are checked when saving the result:

	Because the list is populated from your nomination lists, the only players shown are those nominated in the relevant team or lower. (No one can play in a team below that for which they are nominated.)
	Only one swap of consecutively nominated players is allowed in a match.
	No player nominated for a lower team may play above someone nominated for a higher team.
	A player cannot play up more than twice in any half without becoming team tied.
	Players must play a required number of times before the last matches, as specified in the rules.
	Other rules as they become introduced or as they are added to the web site logic checking.

Every day, a program is run on the web site which checks all the results entered and sends emails to the team contacts reminding them to enter or verify results. It also checks the players as mentioned above, and will alert the administrators to infringements of the rules.

In addition, it monitors the number of matches played by each player and will alert any team where a player has played up twice, or at various intervals, where a player has not played enough matches to qualify for the last matches of the league, as specified in the rules.

	What if you enter an invalid player? If you make a mistake when entering the results, you have 24 hours to correct it before it becomes locked, ready for the away team to verify. However, if you actually played an invalid player, then you will find yourselves penalised.

	What if a player on the card is not on the drop-down list? Whether it is on your own team or on the away team, simply leave a blank. It will be treated as an invalid player as above.

Verification Process

	The day after a match, an email is sent to the home team reminding them that the result must be entered.
	The home team must enter the match result by the end of the week following the match.
	A warning email is sent to the home team if the result has not been entered with 2 days to go of their allowed entry period.
	24 hours after entering the result, the match page ceases to be editable by the home team, thus allowing a short period of time to make a correction.
	At the end of this 24 hour period, an email is sent to the home team advising them of the entered result and that it is now locked to them. They are also advised of any issues arising from the players entered.
	At the end of this 24 hour period, an email is sent to the away team advising them that it has been done and requires verifying.
	The away team have until the end of the second week after the match to verify. After this date, the match result is deemed to be verified even if not done so by the away team. To verify the result, the away team will simply go to the match page and click the "Result Verified" button which is now visible.

Once verified, the match page shows the "Verified" information.

	What if the home team does not enter a result? If the home team does not does not enter a result, the away team must contact their coordinator and send in a copy of the match card. The coordinator then enters the result from the card and the home side are subject to a penalty.

	What if the away team disagrees with the results entered? Again, simply email a copy of the match card to the coordinator with your reason why the result is wrong. The matter will then be looked into.

Fixture Dates

Since the fixtures are entered automatically at the start of the season, the actual day of the week for the match is not known until decided by the fixture secretaries. The default date is the Monday of the week in which the match is to be played, but this leaves the question of "is the match actually on the Monday or is it just the default date that no one has updated?".

To solve this and associated issues, every fixture should now be "Confirmed" by the home side.

Once confirmed, this will be shown again the fixture date on the match details page or by a "(c)" against the date in the team, club or division listings.