Add teams to your league

Teams belong to the league, not to one event. Create a team once, maintain its roster during the season, and select that team when you create each league event.

Create a team

Open League Admin.
Open Teams & Rosters.
Choose Add Team.
Enter the team name. Choose Add Another Team if you want to create several teams in the same step.
Choose Submit.

Snapdown checks the names against teams already in the league and against the other names in the form. A team name cannot be repeated with different capitalization or extra spaces.

After creating a team, open its row on the Teams tab to see its roster, or use the row’s menu for coaches, the team name, and its activity log.

What a team owns

A league team owns:

its season roster;
its assigned coaches;
the team identity used in event entries, results, team scoring, and league reports; and
its roster export and edit history.

The roster is not recreated for every event. A team added near the start of the season remains available for later league events, with the same wrestlers and coaches.

Team-managed vs. league-managed rosters

Every roster starts out managed by you and your league administrators. In League Admin, Teams & Rosters has two tabs. Teams lists your teams and their coaches. Rosters is one table of every wrestler in the league, with age, grade, weight, record, rank, and rating; pick a team on the Teams tab to see just that team. From the table you can add or edit wrestlers, import or export a spreadsheet, and filter to wrestlers missing something your league requires, such as a birth date or rank.

To hand a team its own roster, add a coach. The Coach column on the Teams tab shows who coaches each team; to add one, open the team’s ⋯ menu and choose Manage coaches. Coaches can add, import, edit, and remove wrestlers on their team’s roster, on the web or in the app, without getting league-wide administration access. Teams you never add a coach to stay fully in your hands, so you can go team by team.

Snapdown emails each coach you add, with a link straight to their team. If they don’t have a Snapdown account yet, they also get an invitation to set one up. Head coach and assistant coach are labels for your own reference; both get the same roster access.

Both approaches use the same league roster. A league can import every team in one workbook, let coaches maintain their own teams, or combine the two.

Manage Coaches covers the season roster only. It does not let a coach edit the team’s roster for a particular event. To let coaches enter their own event lineup, grant access in that event; see Manage event teams and coach roster access.

See Import league rosters for the league-wide spreadsheet workflow.

Teams that are not league members

Do not add every outside team to the season roster automatically.

Teams from another Snapdown league: link the two leagues so their teams can be used without rebuilding both rosters.
Teams that aren’t on Snapdown: add them and mark them External. They work like any league team but are labeled External in lists and stats.
A team for one event only: add an event team for that competition.

See Should I create a league or a standalone tournament? for the difference between linked leagues and External teams.

Moving wrestlers to another team

When kids switch between teams, such as between an A and a B team, open the Rosters tab and choose Select. Pick the wrestlers, even from different teams (search and filters narrow the list, and Select all picks every match), then choose Move to team.

Splitting a team for one event

A team can field two scoring squads in one event without splitting its league roster. Export the league event roster, keep each wrestler’s wrestler_id, and use the event’s team column to assign names such as Canfield Red and Canfield Black.

Those event-team assignments control scoring and results for that event. The wrestlers still belong to their original league team afterward. See Select wrestlers for a league event.

Also covers: add a coach to a team · let coaches manage their own roster · head coach vs assistant coach · move wrestlers to another team · swap kids between A and B teams