I already made a comment about this, but I would like to have the ability to enter the teams in our league, as well as scores around the league, in order to automatically update a standings table. Furthermore, my league has 2 divisions and has cross-divisional play, but our playoff seedings are based on divisional play, so I’d like to be able to see our divisional record and overall record separately, as well as the statistics that go with each category.

It would be incredibly helpful if there were a “General Information” page where the manager could customize the page to have whatever information he/she deems important. For instance, I’m currently using Google Groups for our team page, and while it is nowhere near as sophisticated as TeamSnap, it does afford me the ability to post sections such as field locations, emergency contact info (my information and weather hotline), event websites, links to league rules, etc. TeamSnap offers a good portion of these in compartmentalized ways, but it would be nice to have one highly-customizable page with selectable information. Furthermore, the Google Group page has a Welcome section that allows me to post information/updates/whatever that my team members will see immediately when they go to the website. TeamSnap has a Messages section, but it seems like it could easily be overlooked.

The ability to create folders in the photo/document section would be incredibly helpful, especially for larger teams/clubs.

More customizable skins would be a nice feature, too, that would allow teams to more accurately display their colors proudly.

I’m not sure if TeamSnap can do this (since I’m a manager), but it would be nice if members could login and enter stats that would have to be reviewed by the manager before they were published. This would save me some headaches in trying to keep track of all our stats myself.

Being able to sort players by their last name in the stats section would be helpful, too.

Editing html (or at least the ability to include hyperlinks with a text label) within event and game notes would be a nice feature.

You can currently export rosters in csv format, but it would be nice to be able to import in csv, too. I have a bunch of people in my contacts list on my google account, and it would be so much easier if I could import them into Snapfish from a csv file, rather than inputting them manually.

Also, how much will TeamSnap eventually run once the beta testing is done? Will there be a “pay for a season at once” option?

Thank you.

Hi VT,

Thanks for your feedback. Responses below:

• We are currently in development on a league product, and the features you describe will definitely be part of that. No release date has been set yet.
• We’re currently looking at adding more customization on the home page by the manager, but haven’t come to a resolution on that yet.
• Folders are on our list for the photos/files section.
• More customization of the visual look is also something we’re looking at.
• There’s currently no way to “stage” stats and then approve them, but it’s an interesting idea. We’ll look into that.
• Yep, rich text editing in the game/event notes is on our list.
• Importing team data (roster, schedule, etc) is also on our list, but is more complex than it might seem. But we’ll definitely be adding that capability.
• We haven’t set specific pricing yet for TeamSnap, but it’ll be one low monthly price for the entire team. Once we wrap up beta and launch, we’ll be notifying everybody and you’ll have a 30 day window to decide how you want to proceed.

Cheers,
Matt @ TeamSnap HQ
Lead Designer

Thanks, Matt. I appreciate all the work you guys are doing. After beta testing the site for a while on my own w/o my team, here are the things that I would like to see most:

• A team record with respect to the records of the rest of the teams in the league (can be a manual input)
• Stats for the other teams (really I’m just worried about scores of games so I can figure out goal differentials for other teams. I do this all in an Excel sheet now)
• A stat category that easily tracks a player’s indicated availability each week with their actual attendance (I’ve had some players say they’ll be there and then not show up. I’d like to easily be able to keep track of who these people are, as I’d like to give the people who actually show up more attention/playing time/etc.)
• Small thing – I like that you can go in and indicate that a game was “canceled”, but the schedule then asks for a result when a game is canceled. These games also show up in the stats. It’s minor, but annoying.
• A minimum number of games requirement for statistics. I have 2 keepers, and they are at the bottom of the list statistically in “Top Goals Against” because we have 20 some people on the team that haven’t let in any goals (due to them not ever having played keeper). Also, someone who plays one game and has 2 goals shouldn’t necessarily rule the “Top Average Goals” category.
• Folders/categories in the files section.
• Archived stats and/or career statistics.
• Option for active/inactive players for e-mails, stats, etc. If someone gets hurt, or has to sit out a season, I don’t want to pester them w/ e-mails all season long.
• The ability to somehow manage a sub-team… for instance, I have an outdoor team that will play in the both the spring and the fall. I’m also going to start an indoor team that will play year round, but will consist of mainly those players from my outdoor team. Obviously my indoor team will have shorter, more numerous schedules than my outdoor team, and I’d like to be able to have those schedules/stats/etc. separate from the indoor team, while having the career stats for each player draw from both indoor and outdoor. That’s a complicated one, I realize, but it’s something to think about ;-)
• The ability to sort stats by category (i.e. by goals, assists, cards, etc., alternating ascending and descending on each click on the category header) would be fantastic.

• The payment page. This is extremely helpful. Good work.
• The availability page, especially for coed teams. Again, very helpful. Could use some tweaks as mentioned above, but very good.
• The stats page (leaders, especially) is very nice, though the “Team Leaders” thing could be fixed a little w/ that aforementioned “minimum games played” requirement factored in.

That’s all I’ve got right now. Thanks again, and keep up the good work.

With regards to the active/inactive player feature, it would be convenient to have an option to restrict that inactive player’s access to the team site, as well (in case of suspension or something). I bring this up, also, because I’d like to have inactive players not appear on the payment list. It would just help clarify some things.

Thanks for all the great feedback. We are definitely getting lots of great ideas from our users to sort through and prioritize. We appreciate the thoughtful comments.

-Traci @ TeamSnap

A field for a middle initial and a suffix for player names would be incredibly convenient. I now have 4 players by the name of John White on my team – John B. White, Sr.; John B. White, Jr.; John M. White, Sr.; and John M. White, Jr. Obviously, any helpful way of sorting these players more easily would be appreciated.