One of the challenges that faces most sports clubs is knowing who is available to play in a fixture when.  Anyone who has captained a sports side will know that you can end up spending much of your week phoning around finding who is available to ensure you have a full side for the weekend. 

The impact of not knowing who is available and selecting players who are in fact unavailable can be felt throughout a sports club.  A player short in the 1st team, can cause every team below that to have to find a new player.

We present two solutions to aid this problem. 

The first is to allow your club members to post their availabilities online .  This ensures that availabilities are stored centrally rather than by several different captains noting down or remembering availabilities.  Storing availabilities centrally ensures when a player goes on holiday for a couple of weeks nobody forgets when he or she is back.  Captains and administrators can view the availabilities through the admin area for all members for a given date range allowing selections to be made accordingly.

The second solution is to ensure all members are notified of their selection automatically and requiring members to confirm their availability.  Confirmation of availability is as simple as clicking a link in the email received, to say yes I can play or no I can’t play.  This action sends an email to the captain, or match organiser to confirm the update.  Requiring a confirmation ensures that captains know of any potential availability issues at the earliest possible point.