Website Management Platform for Youth Baseball League

Anything but eteamz!  I have created my own for a soccer league.  There are some ready made options that look promising.  http://www.teamsnap.com and http://leagueathletics.com

What requirements do you want?

If you just need to update the website, check out a cms like http://www.squarespace.com/.  It is easy to use and maintain. There are others as well such as wix.com, wordpress.com.

If you do want the automated back end system where you can have players sign up online, track payments, assign to teams, leagues, email/text messaging, integrate with the website etc, then something like the links I provided.  Or maybe one of the parents has some skills and is willing to trade time for fees and in lieu of  life time volunteer work which is what I did.

Thanks - we are looking for a site management system where we can manage player registration and handle online waivers, as well as show game results and team standings. Therefore, I have looked at some of the packages built specifically for league management.

We have been looking at http://www.bluesombrero.com and http://leaguetoolbox.com/

I am hoping I can find one that is relatively easy to use - the league uses Club Spaces now, which has terrible usability from a site management standpoint. We will avoid eTeamz as well, based on your recommendation and we will check out Team Snap and League Athletics

Now that these links are in my browser.... guess what my google and facebook ads are about...

You gotta love retargeting ads!

Thanks for looking at these sites - I will dig into League Toolbox and into the ones you recommended.

I would be interested to know which you went with.

cool - I will post an update once I make a vendor selection.

Our current plan is to use Blue Sombrero, as the free component of this ended up being a major factor for our Board.

The Blue Sombrero platform is subsidized by Dick's Sporting Goods, so we will need to provide some marketing accommodations to Dick's, but it looks like the strongest set of site functionality for a non-paid platform. Our only expense should be for URL registration with GoDaddy and for credit card processing fees associated with online player registrations.

I will post the URL of the live site once we launch it.

Thanks for the update.    

It looks like they took the high side for credit card processing fees in order to provide an easy rate.  Typically rates hover in the 3% for card not present plus 20 to 30 cents per transaction.   Unless you are doing a half million a year in online sales, 3% vs 3.4% is not going to make much difference.  Watch if you use your own CC processing, there may be additional fees for using Authorize.net unless the provider already has that build in their costs.  This is where the 3.4% rate is not so bad.

Good luck.

Live Site: http://www.sloyouthbaseball.com

This uses the Blue Sombrero platform - worked out well.

Thanks!  Looks good.