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Scheduling League Games
- MSPSP (Premier League) games are scheduled by email or over the phone after the match-ups are posted in August (for fall season) and March (for spring season). Each team is responsible for entering their home games into the online scheduling system.
- WSSL games are scheduled by email or over the phone after match-ups are posted in August (for fall season) and March (for spring season). A confirmation meeting is held after the scheduling period. Final schedules are reported to the Home Field Scheduler, who then submits them to WSSL for posting online.
Risk Management
- Every manager (and coach) must receive Risk Management Certification to participate in all MSYSA-sanctioned soccer activities.
- You must carry your risk management card at practices, games and tournaments.
- To apply for Risk Management Certification (which is good for 24 months), or to reprint your proof of Certification, use this link: MSYSA Risk Management
- For more information about the Risk Management program, click here.
Team Communication
- Perhaps the most important tasks performed by the team manager are sharing information with the families.
- Put together a contact list for the team and distribute it to all of the families.
- Send out reminders about upcoming practices, games and any changes to schedules. A weekly email is highly recommended. The club can give you examples of what to include. Add <michigantigersfc@comcast.net> to the list you use for team email announcements; we will monitor these and will try to add information when we notice confusion or uncertainty.
- Send a complete game schedule to the player families prior to each season, as well as a map to each away game site. Maps are posted on the Michigan Tigers web site for you to use.
- Each team has access to a private web site for sharing information, photos, stories and anything else. The manager can administer the site, or ask for another parent volunteer to handle this.
Weather Postponements & Cancellations
- Game cancellations for weather can come from only two sources: (1) the
owner of the fields or (2) the referees.
- Wideworld tries to avoid a cancellation,
as it knows that this cause scheduling problems. Wideworld will
monitor the weather and water on the fields and if it appears that
the fields will be so wet that serious damage would be done to the
ground and grass, it may decide to close them. (The fields are in the
best shape they have been in for several years, so there is some
concern about losing that in a day of games in hard rain.)
If a cancellation is announced by Wideworld, we will make every effort to get
an early notice to you (even the evening before, if we hear anything),
especially if you have games on Saturday morning. We will call the
manager or coach of each team affected and send email as soon as we
know anything and at least several hours before the time of your game.
We will also contact the referee scheduler about the game
cancellations. We ask the team manager to call the opposing team
contact to inform them of the cancellation. (If you have an early
game, it might make sense to get in touch with them this evening, just
to work out communication.)
- For those of you with away games when rain is likely, you may wish to contact the home
team to find out if they have any information the plans for the weekend.
- When the weather is stormy, it is the referee's responsibility to
determine if a field conditions are unsafe, whether due to water on
the field or lightning. Heavy rain may delay a game, but not often
cancel it. Lightning, however, will lead to the immediate stoppage.
Please move indoors if there is lightning. Referees will then wait
approximately 15 minutes. If no lightning appears in that time, the
game will be resumed. However, if the lightning continues, the game
may be cancelled.
- If the referee suspends the game during the first half, it will be
rescheduled. If it is suspended after halftime, the game will be
considered complete.
- In any case, if referees show up at the field, they are to be paid,
even if the fields have been closed by Wideworld, or if lightning
prevents a game from starting or finishing.
- If a game needs to be
rescheduled, we will work with you to find field time and get you more
money to pay referees.
WSSL web page regarding rescheduling
- You can also watch the club home page
for updates. Please remind your parents to check there before leaving
for the field.
- Remember, a team can forfeit a game if players
don't show up. Even if the referee might up not start a game, a team
that is a no-show may be charged with the forfeit.
Game reports
- It is the manager's duty to fill out the game report for each outdoor league game. The club will give you blank forms to use, and instructions about how to complete them.
- At the start of each game, you give the completed game report, pass cards, and league-stamped roster to the referees. The referees will use these to check the team in.
- Be sure to retrieve the pass cards and roster after check-in or after the game.
- Also after the game, you or the coach needs to sign the game reports for each team, then take with you a copy of the report.
- The score will be reported to the league by the winning team, or, in the case of a tie, the home team.
- WSSL web page regarding game reports
Paying the referees
- The club will give you cash to use to pay the referees before each game.
- WSSLTeams: pay referees at home games only.
- Michigan Premier League (MSPSP) Teams: pay one-half of the game stipend to each referee at every game, home and away.
- If one or more referees fail to show up for the game, or shows up late, please report it to us.
- Do not pay anyone who fills in for a missing referee (except in the rare case when a licensed referee in uniform not originally assigned to the game is at the site and fills a spot).
Tournaments
- The club will submit the registrations and fees for your team's tournaments. At registration, the team manager will be listed as the contact -- you may receive an email about the registration asking you to pay, but that will be taken care of for you.
- The manager is reponsible for doing the tournament-site registration of the team before the first game. The tournament organizers will announce the place and time of this registration. Sometimes its on Friday evening (even if there are no games that evening) or on Saturday morning before the first game.
- If we have more than one team entered in a tournament, we will attempt to have one manager check-in all of our teams. This can work if it's not difficult to get the check-in materials (roster, etc.) back to each team in time for the first game.
- At the check-in, you show the tournament personnel a stamped league roster, pass cards, medical release forms, materials for any guest players, and possibly other tournament-specific forms.
- If the tournament is outside Michigan, a "permission to travel" permit from MSYSA (Michigan's state organization), must be presented.
- The club will help you assemble the necessary documentation (beyond that which you need for league games).
- You should also have a copy of the tournament rules with you and make sure the coach has a copy.
- Distribute a copy of the tournament game schedule (including possible semifinal and final games, should the team qualify), a map to the tournament site and a map of the game fields.
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