During free change period:
Make sure all games will have player and coaching coverage.

 

After free change period:
Each team can make up to 3 schedule changes without fines provided they are >2 weeks before game start time.  Follow procedure above.  Can’t swap home and away games.

Don’t wait to cancel a game until you know of a reschedule date.  Cancel the game as soon as you know there is a conflict which will buy you time to work out the details of the reschedule.

Email communication format:
There must be 1 email for each 1 change request, with both home and away coach/manager copied.
The subject line should have the game number, the age and gender team and the team color (if applicable) only.
The body should contain from and to dates and times, preferably with day of week spelled out.  (Believe it or not this has saved many issues in the past where the day-of-week and numeric date don't line up because of a number type-o)
IE:    Subject:  #712  u10b  Blue        Body:  From Saturday 8/18 1:00pm  To Sunday 9/2 3:00pm

 

Game change procedure(including rainout reschedules)
                AWAY games:

· Contact the opposing coach to determine a date.
 

                HOME games:

· Contact opposing coach and pick a tentative date. 

· Once a time is agreed upon contact the MESC field coordinator to make sure the field is available:  mescfacilitycoordinator@gmail.com   Should the field be available you are committing at this point.

· Once the field is determined to be available the field coordinator will email:
      - BCSA League coordinator
      - BCSA Age group coordinator
      - Both home and away coaches. 
The league coordinator will change the master schedule and reply by email confirming the change.
 

              BOTH away and home games during and after the free change period:

· Verify that your change went live in the master schedule on the BCSA website.  A few cases in past seasons did not, resulting in no referees for the game.
· It's very important to write 1 email per game change.  In the subject line have at least the game number, age group and gender.