The November Board Meeting of the
Buckeye Travel Hockey League
will be
Monday November 9, 1998
7:00 pm Ohio/Kentucky/Indiana
Forum at Fisher's
9022 E. 126th St.
Fishers, IN
BTHL Member Associations - Those Eligible to Vote at Board Meeting
Athens, Cincinnati, Columbus (IN), Columbus Chill, Columbus Bluejackets (formerly Capitals), Dayton Bluehawks, Dayton Bombers, Dayton Gems, Evansville, Findlay, Fort Wayne, Golden Triangle (Hamilton), Indianapolis Blues, Indianapolis Racers, Kettering Fairmont, Lakota, Louisville, Newark, Northern Kentucky, Oxford, South Bend (Irish Rovers)
To: Local Hockey Association Presidents, Buckeye League Representatives and other interested folks
From: Kim James, BTHL Secretary
The November meeting of the Buckeye Travel League (BTHL) is on Monday November 9, 1998 at 7:00 pm (all states) The meeting is being held at Forum at Fisher's Rink in Fisher's IN. The rotating meeting location is an effort to get as much member participation as possible.
October Minutes
You will find enclosed the minutes from the October BTHL meeting. Prior to the meeting, please review.
Scheduler Notes
Len Holtgreven has posted the following reminders to the WEB page. Please be sure all teams adhere to the reporting guidelines.
We are now a couple of weeks into the season and I would like to thank the team managers for the job they've done in reporting game scores. Compared to the previous 3 seasons your cooperation in that area has been outstanding.
I do have a couple of requests however:
1. Home team - The home team is responsible for reporting results, preferably by Sunday evening. One of 3 methods can be used (in order of preference): 1) Use the new game reporting system on our web page (see below) 2) Send me an email message 3) Call it in, I've got an answering machine.
2. Game# - When reporting games PLEASE use the game#. I can't emphasize enough just how much time that saves. Remember that as a league we are playing dozens of games each week.
3. Home score first - Along the same line, when reporting the score PLEASE list home score first. When I enter game scores I'm just keying in numbers with no idea of who the teams are. If the scores are in the wrong order the score will be keyed in backwards. I'm sure you can appreciate the time savings I can achieve if I don't have to look up schedules and correct scores after the fact.
4. Scoresheets - The home team is to mail them to me every week. I only want scoresheets involving league games. This would include non-league games if a game misconduct was issued and the suspension is to be served during a league game. (Please don't send me all your non-league scoresheets, I don't want them and since it's often not obvious whether it was a league game I'm forced to look up your schedule to verify whether it is or isn't). You can tell which scoresheets I've received by looking at your schedule on the web. If the game is listed in bold print I've got it. With the scoresheet I verify the accuracy of the reported score and look for any unreported game misconducts. I'd like to keep up with it from week to week and not have 500 scoresheets to look at the 1st of February. You can find my address included in the "Contacts" page for Findlay.
5. Game misconducts - When you have a penalty involving game suspensions I want the following procedure followed:
· Both teams are to report the penalty. This eliminates any convenient lapse of memory if the offending team happens to be the home team.
· The front and back of the scoresheet is to be faxed to me by Monday morning.
· Due to the sensitive nature of these incidents and problems experienced in previous seasons I will not post names on the web without a copy of the scoresheet in my hands.
6. Non-league games - I will add non-league games to your schedule, but since I've added the game reporting system to our web page I'm asking you to report results directly through that system.
7. Game reporting system - If you've not used it yet it works like this:
· You must have Internet Explorer 4.0
· You need to get a password from me. Just send me an email and I'll assign you one. This password will allow you to maintain your team (and only your team) roster and game (Home and Away) results. If you manage multiple teams you can keep the same password for each.
· You must submit a Roster via the web page. Click the menu choice "Rosters" located on the left side of the screen. Find your team on the displayed list and click on it. Click "Edit Roster" and fill in the blanks. Note that this is not updated immediately, give it a day or so. Once your roster has been submitted and posted to the web you're ready to go.
· To report a game score bring up your schedule and click on the "Game#". If a score has been previously reported then any individual statistics for this game will now be displayed. Click on the "Post Results" and a blank scoresheet will be displayed (after entering your username and password). Simply fill in the blanks and click "Submit Score". Same as the roster, give it a day or so to show up.
· Note that statistics are tracked for league games only. You can view them for individual teams by displaying the roster. You can view them for an entire age group by clicking on the age group header located on the Roster team list. ie: "Mite", "Squirt", etc. With the statistics displayed you can sort the list by any of the underlined columns simply by clicking on that column. ie: Click on "Points" and the list of players will be sorted by Points scored, etc.
I'm looking forward to a great season and appreciate the cooperation and support I've received up to this point.
Thanks,
Len Holtgreven
Please copy this mailing and distribute to all the appropriate people within your organization so that they are aware of what's happening. The League can only rely on the information you provide us. Be sure to update us as necessary throughout the season.
From I-465 and I-69, take I-69 north to the State Road 37/116th street split, take SR 37 north to 126th Street, turn left (west) on 126th Street, continue on 126th Street 2 blocks to rail road crossing past the crossing just on the right is the entrance to the ice rink. Parking is along side of ice rink. The address is: 9022 E. 126th Street, Fishers, IN 46038.
