Frequently Asked Questions

Web site accounts will be setup for organization coordinators in September and October after the league has received all information regarding the organization. Coordinators will receive an email from the league with information regarding their accounts. Organization coordinators will have access to a one page portal that gives them the ability to communicate with the league, other organizations, and their coaches. The portal also allows coordinators to setup their gym availability as well as maintain a schedule for gyms that they manage if they would like.

Parents should wait until teams have been created before they setup a web site account. This will take place in late October through early November. An announcement will be made on our web site when teams have been setup.

No, you do not. All team, schedule, standings, and gym direction information is all readily available from our main menu to any member of the public. However, if you would like to receive notifications about game schedule changes, tournament game results, weekly schedule reminders, and league or team announcements, please setup an account and subscribe to a team(s) to receive this type of information. You will also have access to a one page portal which will contain all of the information you might be interested regarding the team(s) you have subscribed to including schedule, standings, team stats, and roster information.

When teams are created on the web site for the upcoming season (typically in late October or early November), we will automatically create a user account for each head coach based on the information provided by your member organization (based on name and email address). You will receive an automated email from the web site notifying you of this. You may change your user name and/or password when you login to the web site for the first time.

The season will begin on the first weekend in December for ALL teams this year, that includes 7th-12th graders.

The season is 10 weeks in length for 3rd-6th grade teams and 9 weeks for 7th-12th. There is a season-ending tournament the weekend after the regular season ends. The tournaments typically take place the last 2 weekends in February. The league calendar is always available on the front page of the web site.

Yes, league games will be conducted on those weekends per the consensus amongst our member organizations.

There are several links on your portal that will allow you to perform multiple types of gym closures. You will be able to postpone all games scheduled for a specific day for a gym that you manage. You will also be able to postpone specific games for instance if you need to cancel morning games but feel you can have your facility open later in the day. Please note that when you close a facility, notifications are sent to all subscribers of teams that were scheduled top play in your facility that day.

Each member organization is responsible for communicating to the league when a gym has been closed. Gym closures that do not affect league game play do not have to be communicated to the league. When a gym has been closed that postpones scheduled league games, the following will occur: 1) a text message or email will be sent to all web site account holders that have subscribed to teams affected by the gym closure; 2) a message will be displayed on the front page of the web site listing all gyms that are currently closed; 3) a league announcement will be posted to the web site, tweeted to our Twitter account, and sent to all web site account holders that have subscribed to league announcements if all games for a specific day have been postponed. We've got you covered!

All changes to the schedule are made in real time on our web site. However, if you would like to be notified of games that are postponed, rescheduled, or canceled, setup a web site account and subscribe to a team(s) and to the notifications you would like to receive.

Not necessarily. The league will do the best it can to reschedule games that were postponed due to inclement weather. This decision will need to be made in conjunction with member organizations as the ability to reschedule games is largely dependent on the availability of gym time to play these games. Games will initially be marked as postponed on the schedule and will either be moved to a rescheduled status or a canceled status.

Coordinators can submit schedule conflicts for their coaches before the scheduling process began. Schedule conflicts are due this season by October 25th for 2nd-6th grade teams and November 15th for 7th-12th grade teams. After the schedule is released, coaches must contact their coordinators with a legitimate reason why the game cannot be played (illness, school function, head coach and all assistants cannot be at the game). The coordinator will contact the league to postpone the game and then contact the coordinator of the other team to try and reschedule the game. When a time and location have been determined for the reschedule, the coordinator should contact the league with the agreed upon information. Please note that any games cancelled within 7 days of the scheduled game will result in a $50 fee for the team that is cancelling. This money is to pay the referees for their missed game.

Our league does not accept registrations from individual players or from teams, but instead works with community organizations that are league members. If you are new to the area or do not know what basketball organization is available in your area, feel free to contact us and we will try to put you in touch with the appropriate organization that may or may not enter teams in our league.

Please contact us to learn more about league fees which are based on the number of games a team plays (10 game schedule for all recreational teams and some high recreational teams and 20 game schedule for all athletic teams). This fee covers all league administration (game scheduling, referee scheduling, web site hosting, incident management, roster loading, and various other functions) as well as medals for year-end tournament championships and runners up. Teams are required to pay the referees $35 per game and pay all facility rental costs required by their organization sponsor.

We are interested in any community or school-based youth basketball organizations. The CPYBL offers multiple levels of recreational and athletic play for boys and girls ranging from 2nd grade through 12th grade. The expectation is that recreational teams will be assembled via a draft process and an athletic team will be hand-picked based on some type of tryout or evaluation process. Please contact Ben Goodyear at ben.goodyear@amerileagues.com if you would like to inquire further about the league.

The CPYBL will have playing divisions for grades 2 through 12. High school players will be split into two separate divisions, 9-10 and 11-12.

• Instructional: all 2nd grade boys and girls teams (no score reporting or standings kept and no post-season tournament)
• Recreational:  3rd-12th boys and girls
• High-Recreational:  3rd-6th boys and girls as well as 7th-12th boys
• Athletic:  3rd-6th grade boys and girls.  The league will offer A, B, and C divisions within athletic for boys 4th-6th and A and B divisions for girls 4th-6th.

The short answer is no. The league will not track game scores for 2nd grade teams and thus standings will not be kept for 2nd graders. All other teams should report their game scores.

The coach of the winning team should report their game score within 72 hours of the completion of the game. After 72 hours, we would welcome the coach of the losing team to report the game score if they'd like.

Each coach will be given access to a team portal which will allow them to conduct league business and manage their team. A team schedule will be available on the portal with a link next to games that a coach can click on to report their score. Optionally, a coach can subscribe to a special notification that will email them a link to report their score a few hours after the scheduled game time.

All 2nd graders will play on 8 ft rims. Everyone else will play on 10 ft rims.

Most games will be played on Saturday or Sunday while some teams will play an occasional Friday evening game. Recreational teams will typically play one game per weekend (this could be on Saturday or Sunday) while athletic teams will typically play one game on Saturday and one game on Sunday on a given weekend.

A pod is a way that we group teams to allow for the best combination of competitive play and the least amount of travel time. For recreational divisions, teams will be grouped into a pod based on geography to cut down on travel time and to promote a sense of community. Athletic teams are expected to travel and will most likely NOT be placed into pods unless there is a very large number of registered teams per grade/playing division.

All teams will play in a season ending tournament that will be single elimination format. Teams may be grouped in divisions for the tournament that look slightly different than the divisions they played in during the regular season in order to make the tournament more competitive.

All athletic teams will be play 20 regular season games, usually two per weekend. Teams will be evaluated during the winter break to determine if they should be moved up our down between high and low divisions in our athletic program if applicable for their age group.

All recreational teams will be play 10 regular season games, usually one per weekend. Teams will typically be scheduled to play 3 games before the winter break to allow the league to evaluate whether or not they should be moved up our down between high and low divisions in our recreational program if applicable for their age group. We are offering a 20 game high recreational schedule for the 2016-2017 season for 4th-6th grade boys.