Player Tryouts

As part of my website duties, I marketed the team's open tryouts. First, I made a graphic on Photoshop of a current player and text that showed the day and time of the event. Then, I linked the graphic off the homepage through the backend of the website to a page I created with all the details of the event. Including, the cost, details and tryout information. I also made a button that web viewers can click on that links to the team shop where prospective players can purchase their registration, but I will talk more about that under the shopping cart section.

Aside from the online information, I also collected player information as they registered and used it to register guys on the tryout date.

On the tryout date, I signed preregistered and nonregistered players into the event, collected money, signed registration forms, marking paid, and assigned players numbers based on their respective positions.

Player Bios and Updates

One of the first things that I learned to do was add players and update player bios on the Florence Freedom website. I receive player contracts from the team's manager and add them through the back end of the website individually. I enter their statistics and biographical information onto the rosters and then add their information onto the Frontier League's website under the Florence Freedom roster. The other aspect of adding players are the small write-ups that I write on each player. I use statistics usually compiled from Howe Sports Data (www.howesportsdata.com) to write this. Here is an example of a write-up written for a newly signed player, Beau Manning.

Beau Manning comes to the Freedom after playing in the 2009 season with the Big Bend Cowboys of the Continental Baseball League.
2009... Manning was a valuable hitter in the Cowboys lineup batting .312 with 52 RBI and 7 HR. He was efficient at the plate with a .401 on-base percentage and only 14 strikeouts in 205 at-bats. The infielder played most of his 58 games at second base (54) and posted a solid .952 fielding percentage.

I also did write-ups for the returning players summing up their 2009 seasons with the Freedom. I later added links on each player's page that linked to their career and yearly statistics from every year they have played. This will make it much easier for Josh, our radio broadcaster, to click on a player's name and click links to their individual statistics over their career with the Freedom and various other teams.