As a TD for USSSA events - all of our game results are posted live right after they are completed!
On the USSSA website - you can follow every event going on as they happen every weekend! Because of this, I have not felt the need to post here.
I always post pictures on our Tri-State USSSA FaceBook page for each division every weekend! I will begin to share those on The Softball Zone FaceBook page from now on....
I am not smart enough to know how to post pictures on here....
Dittoing what Russ said. The USSSA website is such a valuable tool for me as a TD/Admin also. Plus we kick up to them for it's use, so it only makes sense to use it to the max. To me it is total redundancy to post tournament scores when they are right there on our website as soon as I hit the save button. I haven't listed an event for 2 seasons now in the tournament section because teams are pretty hip to where to find our events at.
And don't start in with the responses about how our program has benefited from the website. I'm aware of this. Myself and Ricky have had several conversations over the years and I have always supported the website because it is such a valuable tool for the softball community. Ricky can attest that on several occasions I have sent him funds just for the privilege of letting our TD's post events. I even got with him to ask for our own separate tournament section so our events had a place to be viewed amidst all the "bumps" that other tournaments were getting daily and hourly by some folks. My first year with USSSA, they sponsored a banner ad for a year on his site which provided some revenue stream for his efforts. We even co-hosted an event and split the proceeds down the middle so he could generate some revenue to do improvements he wanted done for the page.
It is nothing personal as I still enjoy the good conversations on here, but it is just very time consuming for me to keep tourney listings updated when I have an automated site that our National organization does a great job with. And I am biased but when used correctly, I think our site is the best of the major sanctions. There is so much function for us as admin, it makes our life so much easier. And teams like that they can "scout" other teams by their record and also the fact that rosters are posted for transparency purposes. It is not perfect because anything can always be better, but it is a heck of a website. And this is coming from a guy who used to have to do everything by hand and log a spreadsheet for every single payment that came in for multiple teams, etc. collect every single roster for every event, collect every copy of insurance..........
Have a great Memorial Day everyone!!
