AutoRoster2.7.7-web

Tap any of your Games to visit a roster page.

Tap Edit to enter Edit mode.

In Edit Mode, you can:

• Toggle players' availability by tapping the green dot beside their names.

• Nominate a captain / orange provider by tapping the Oranges box.

• Click Go to automatically generate a roster.

• Tap View for a role-based view.

• Tap Positions to enter preferences for particular players, if necessary. (Don't overdo it — the more you set here, the less ability AutoRoster has to move things around and find good rosters.)

Example: Setting a few positional preferences, auto-generating a roster, and tweaking it.

Rosters can be modified in many ways:

• Drag positions around.

• Drag one player's name onto another to swap all their positions with each other.

• Swap entire quarters at once by dragging the Quarter heading.

• Tap Go again to try to algorithmically improve the current roster.

AutoRoster tries to find the best solution for the preferences you give it! Try tweaking a few preferences in your Settings — e.g. decrease the importance of giving breaks to the Centre — then come back and re-run Go.

Tip: Tap any player/position to lock it in place, so it won't change when you run Go.

AutoRoster can provide advanced stats to improve your team rosters. Most of these rely on quarter-by-quarter scores: After each match, enter what the score was at ¼ time, ½ time, ¾ time, and final.

To enter match scores:

• In the Games tab, past games will invite you to Enter Scores.

  You can also change scores later in the same place by tapping the three dots () beside a game and then Edit Game.

To view stats directly on rosters (not just in the Stats tab):

• In the Settings tab, toggle on Show NetStats. If you have AutoRoster Pro, you can also toggle on Pair/Trio Stats.

Example: This is a very good roster, with lots of positive scores for NetStats (how the team performs when this player is in this position) as well as Pairs and Trios (how the team performs when this combination of players have these positions together).

Pin

When you click (rather than drag) a player's position while editing a roster, you toggle whether it is pinned. Pinned positions don't move when you use Go to automatically generate a roster.

Raincloud

Normally, clicking a player's position while editing a roster will toggle whether it's pinned (see above). For past games, though, you cycle through an extra option: the Raincloud.

The Raincloud is for when people didn't actually play in their rostered positions for some reason, e.g. the game was rained out. It lets you see where they were going to play, without counting it toward stats.

For example, if your game was rained out at half time, you can put rainclouds on the 3rd and 4th quarter roles so only the first two quarters are counted toward stats.

Substitutions

Subs are players who come on court mid-quarter to replace someone else.

To create a sub:

1. In Edit mode, tap a position twice. It will play a moving arrow animation.

2. Wait a second or two. The position will split, shared with a bench player. You can now drag them both around like normal.

You must have a free bench player to create a sub. If you keep tapping a position but only see the Pin and possibly the Raincloud, but not the arrows, it's because you don't have a free bench player. (Or, perhaps, because you're tapping a bench position. Tap an on-court position instead.)

To remove a sub, repeat the process: Tap a position twice to show the arrow animation, then wait for one or two seconds.

Note:

• Subs always come from the bench, and the player they replace goes to the bench.

• Each player and position can only be subbed once per quarter.

• Auto-generated rosters don't use subs. If you tap Go, any subs will be removed. (You can tap Undo to get them back.)

For stats purposes, the player who subs in and the player who subs out are each deemed to have played half the quarter, sharing equal credit for the team's performance.

Fill-Ins

The easiest way to handle fill-ins — players who aren't members of your team but play if a regular player is absent — is to treat them as if they were the player they're replacing, and mark that player absent (by tapping the green dot beside their name in Edit mode).

This will cause the fill-in's positions to be shown in gray. That means you can see where they play, but it doesn't count towards stats.

Alternately, you can create a new player, but this can clutter up your rosters and stats a bit, and force you to mark them absent each game.

Game Duration (Matches That Aren't 4 Quarters)

You can create a tournament of two-halves games, or some other number of periods, in your Season settings. These are most easily found by navigating to the bottom of your Games tab.

Note:

• All games within the same season have the same number of periods.

• You can't change the number of periods after creating a season unless you first erase all its existing rosters.

• For flash games with a single period, NetStats and Combinations can't be generated, because AutoRoster relies on comparing quarters within the same game in order to account for fixture bias (some opponents being stronger than others).

Format (5- and 6-a-side)

You can use 5- and 6-a-side game formats, including FAST5 (no Wings) and the A/C/D variants used by Indoor Netball and New Zealand's futureFERNS program.

Select your Format when creating a new season.

For A/C/D formats, Combination stats don't contribute to roster strength ratings, since the positions are more general. But these stats can still be viewed in the Stats tab.

Sharing allows people to view your rosters. They can't make changes, and can't see stats, except for the very basic ones like Positions Played and Absentees & Leadership.

Sharing One Roster

Tap the Share icon in the top-right while viewing any particular roster. This will create a link to it that anyone can use.

If you're using a web browser, this may simply generate a link that you need to paste into an email or message and send. On a phone or tablet, it will use your device's native sharing system.

Sharing a Whole Season

You can send a direct link to all your team's games by going to the Games and using the Share link at the very bottom.

People can also view your season's games list if you've shared any individual roster with them — they just need to tap Games.

Sharing Stats & Management

If you want someone to be able to make changes or see stats, you need to create a Club, even if you only have one team. Then you can invite people to your Club and assign them as coach or co-coach of a team. It's a bit more complicated but you can do it for free.

More about Clubs...

My team has disappeared!

I think this (very alarming) problem can occur if you have network problems. Often you just need to restart the app (how to on Apple or Android), which forces it to reload everything.

I can see my rosters but not edit them

If you can view a roster but there's no big green "Edit" button, you're not logged in as the team's registered coach/manager. You might be logged out, or you might have made more than one account, and be using the wrong one. For example, you might have created the team after logging in with your Google Account, and now you've come back and logged in with your Apple ID. Try signing out, then login via the same method as when you created the team.

Short version: This is an app I wrote myself and I didn't make it do anything bad. No ads, no reselling of user data. In order to make it work, it bundles services from Google (hosting, database, analytics), Facebook (login), Apple (login), and LogRocket (debugging and session capture), who collect the usual amount of stuff from all users.

This following document sets forth the Privacy Policy for the App. The App is bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), which sets out a number of principles concerning the privacy of individuals.

Definitions

Services means roster generation and similar functionality designed to aid in the management of netball games.
The App means AutoRoster, which is both an app and a website.
We / Us etc means NationStates Pty Ltd and any subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, officers, agents or assigns.

Collection of your personal information

There are many aspects of the App which can be viewed without providing personal information, however, for access to future AutoRoster customer support features you are required to submit personally identifiable information. This may include but not limited to a unique username and password, or provide sensitive information in the recovery of your lost password.

Use of your personal information

For each visitor to reach the site, we expressively collect the following non-personally identifiable information, including but not limited to browser type, version and language, operating system, pages viewed while browsing the Site, page access times and referring website address. This collected information is used solely internally for the purpose of gauging visitor traffic, trends and delivering personalized content to you while you are at this Site.

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will use for these new purposes only, data collected from the time of the policy change forward will adhere to our updated practices.

Sharing of your personal information

In order to provide basic site functionality, your information may be shared with third parties who provide site services such as analytics, hosting, and debugging services, notably including Google, Facebook and LogRocket. We take reasonable steps to ensure that these organisations are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your personal information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make amendments to this Privacy Policy at any time. If you have objections to the Privacy Policy, you should not access or use the Site.

Accessing Your Personal Information

You have a right to access your personal information, subject to exceptions allowed by law. If you would like to do so, please let us know. You may be required to put your request in writing for security reasons. We reserve the right to charge a fee for searching for, and providing access to, your information on a per request basis.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

• Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

• Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

• Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

• The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children's Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

AutoRoster does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our app, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and would like further information, please use the following email address: max_barry@maxbarry.com.

About

Hi, I'm Max. I have two daughters playing netball and wound up coaching a kids' team. The hardest part of every week was figuring out the freaking roster. Then at the last minute one kid would be away and I could put Amy in GA but then she'd have no rest while other kids — arrrrgh. This is why we have computers, right? Right. So I built this app.

Please enjoy and let me know how you go.

— Max Barry