On-line Team Registration and Roster Management System

One of competitive flag football's biggest issues over the years has been the lack of "Roster Management" in regards to the national competition by national organizations.  The inability to properly control, manage and monitor team rosters has actually prevented styles from expanding and further more, making the game stagnant.  Without a consistent influx of "new" players to replenish teams, the national numbers for certain divisions will remain the same.

When short a player or two, teams have found it to be much easier to recruit from an existing team than it is to recruit from outside the sport, which depletes current teams, recycles the same players and limits the expansion of the style (sport).  If the game is to grow, teams have to consistently bring into play, new players.

Competing national for titles and often large cash prizes, its extremely important that rosters be monitor as to not allow players to be borrowed for select events, allowing rosters to swell beyond a certain limit, which ultimately kills of potentially new teams from being formed and diminishing the integrity of the game.

Recently the MCFFU was utilizing the USSSA Team Management System to collect and monitor roster data.  This system was proven to be affective, however the difficulty of setup and operation proved to be more complicated without team managers and coaches being properly trained on the system.

The MCFFU has developed a less complicated system for the time being, that will allow Team Managers/Coaches to build, monitor and adjust their rosters on-line prior to any event.  Player movement will be monitored by the MCFFU and before, during and after any sanctioned event on the World Championships Circuit.

* No players will be allowed on two or more rosters at any given time

* Players MUST be dropped by the registered Team Captain before competing on another team

* A player can request to be dropped by the MCFFU for a $25 fee if refused by the Team Captain

* Players can request a change themselves ONLY twice during a season

* Any team found to be competing with an ineligible player will forfeit all wins and points for the event

* Once a roster is set, it is the ONLY "Official" roster accepted at any Union sanctioned event

* There will be a (1) time annual team registration fee of $25 required when submitting your roster - this good for the entire season.

There will be a complete Roster Management breakdown provided to the teams and players once the entire system has been completed.  Teams are able to utilize the on-line registration process now to register for any tournament, however the "Roster Management" will not go into effect until January 2010 during the Miami World Championships after all the details have been worked out.  (Though the rosters will be completed at the conclusion of the 2009-10 season, teams will be able to use these rosters for the 2010 season which starts immediately after the WC in Las Vegas as their official team roster)

Any teams planning on participating in the World Championships (Miami or Las Vegas) should start building their rosters now and prepare to have them submitted on-line.

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