Subbing / Absences

Absences

Life happens. We get it. We ask that, when you’re unable to make it to a game, you let your captains know ahead of time – ideally, before 11 AM on Sunday when the sub desk email goes out and the website recommends someone to take your place.

You can do this in 2 ways:

  1. Through the website.
    • Head to the home page. If the absence is for a future game, head to the Teams & Schedule page.
    • Locate the game you will be absent for.
    • Uncheck “I will attend”.
    • Optionally email / text your captains to give them a heads up.
  2. Email / text your captains and ask them to mark you as not-attending on the website.

Please mark yourself as absent as soon as possible to give your captains time to plan.

Attendance Policy

If you are going to be absent from a game, you must indicate your absence through either the website or an email / text to your captains. If you don’t enter your absence by Sunday at 11 AM, your captains won’t be given sub recommendations.

A no-call / no-show does a disservice to your team and to the league. Your team is left short-handed, and folks who want to fill your spot are not given the opportunity to.

After three no-shows without any notice or communication to your captains, the Board reserves the right to remove you from the league. The waitlist to get into the league can get quite long, and we’d like to offer your spot to someone on the waitlist if you’re unable to attend your games.

The Board will send a formal email the Monday following the 3rd unannounced absence inquiring after the reason for your absence and to see if we can come to a resolution or offer any accommodations.

If you are removed from the league, you may continue to sub in other games for the rest of the season, but you will no longer be rostered to your team and will no longer be guaranteed games. You will be able to rejoin the league the following season (you will not be added to the waitlist).

Subbing

If you wish to sub for a game, you may indicate this through the website:

  1. Head to the home page. If you want to indicate a sub request for a future game, head to the Teams & Schedule page.
  2. Locate the game you want to sub for.
  3. Check “I want to sub”.

Your subbing preference must be entered by Sunday at 11 AM or the captains won’t be given your name as a potential sub.  Captains will typically reach out to potential subs between noon and 3pm on game day Sundays.  Preferred method of contact is texting, but you may also receive messages via other forms of communication (FB Messenger, email, etc.).

The sub desk system uses a set of rules to decide who to recommend as a sub.

Scrimmages

Absences

If you are going to be absent from a scrimmage, you must indicate this on the website:

  1. Head to the home page. If the absence is for a future scrimmage, head to the Teams & Schedule page.
  2. Locate the scrimmage you will be absent for.
  3. Uncheck “I will attend”.

Subbing

Sub spots for scrimmages open 3 days before the scrimmage at 9am.  If the scrimmage is on a Wednesday, sub spots will open at 9am on Sunday.  By checking the checkbox, you are signing up directly to play in that scrimmage.

If you wish to sub for a scrimmage, you may indicate this through the website:

  1. Head to the home page or the Teams & Schedule page.
  2. Locate the scrimmage you want to sub for.
  3. Check the checkbox next to the number of available sub spots.

Clicking the checkbox means you have secured a sub spot and may attend.