Use of Inactive Players

[plivengood]

Hi all,

It's been a while, and with the weather here in the NW I have only scored a couple of games in this new season, and I've found some updates that I really like, and some others I don't fully understand.

One of them that I think I'd like to use is "inactive players" but I'm unsure of its application. Here is what I would LIKE to be able to do with this (which I haven't tried yet for fear it is not its intended use):

I am scoring for a local high school team, both JV and Varsity. There are a number of kids who "swing" both ways to both V and JV, so I decided to add ALL JV and V players to one team "BHS 2012" and then deal with JV and V by use of different leagues for each (as well as for conference and non-conference).

All that works very well, except there are a lot of players to deal with and move around from game-to-game, depending on whether I am doing a V or JV game. I have dealt with this by simply (for instance when I know I am going to score a JV game) going back to a previous JV game, going to pitch-by-pitch, and saving the previous line-up to the roster so that I don't have to physically separate those players. That works OK, but all of the V players still show up in the in-game and post-game stats (not reports by league - I can separate that out) and I would prefer to hide V players as "inactive" for JV games and JV players as "inactive" for V games.

So I have several questions: can I simply make V players inactive for JV games? If I then go in and save line-up to roster for a future game, will the inactive selections be preserved? How easy is it to then access the "inactives" and move one or two back to "active" on a game-by-game basis? I'd like to go back to the first V game, edit the line-up in P-by-P to move the JV players to inactive, and then whenever I need to score a V game in the future, go back to that game and save to line-up to roster, preserving the inactive choices, and THEN move any JV players who are "playing up" to "active" on a game-by-game, case-by-case basis. Same for JV, except in reverse.

Will this work? Have I chosen an incredibly convoluted way to handle roster flexibility issues (which I did primarily because I want to do a website and be able to see both JV and V on that site, depending on which leagues are enabled)?

Sorry if this isn't as clear as it could be.

[FTMSupport]

Inactive players is really intended to be a way to move players that are no longer on the team (previous year's players for example) to the Inactive list so that when you create new games, those players are not included in the Lineup. It is not really intended to be used as a "sometimes active" list. If you can find a way to make that work for your scenario, that is great.

We have a lot of experience in a similar situation where players sometimes "play down" or "play up" a level, and we put those players on the Inactive list for the appropriate team because the Team Website can now hide those players from the official team stats for example (assuming you have a team website). This is explained here:

http://iscoresports.com/baseball/kb/faq ... o_year.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Or for a travel team, you may have a player that occasionally plays with the team, but is not a full time member, and including them on the Inactive list seems to make sense.