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Change game length and how early to arrive

Set how early each sport needs you there, and how long games, practices and packing up take.

On this page

Each game or practice has three numbers: how long it lasts, Before a game and After. Before a game is how early you need to be there. After is time to pack up and get to the car.

Who can do this: an Editor, someone who can change the schedule, or the Owner, the one person in charge. A Viewer, someone who sees the schedule and changes only their own things, sees each number, with no Change beside it.

  1. Tap Schedule at the bottom, then tap the day. On a tablet or computer, it's on the left.

  2. Tap the game or practice to open its details.

  3. Under How this is timed, tap Change next to the number. A game's length opens its clock (below).

  4. Tap − or + to set the minutes.

  5. Under Apply to, pick only this one or, if you're the Owner, its league (the league or club it plays in) or sport.

    Ava’s hockey game on a phone, changing Be there 40 min before faceoff, with Apply to open: Only this game, All of Fairhollow Youth Hockey, or Every hockey team.
    Choose how far a change goes.
  6. Tap Save.

What you'll see

The card says where each number comes from. A day gone by can't be changed.

How long games last

A game's length comes from its league's clock: periods, their length, and what the whistle adds.

  1. Tap Change next to a game's length, or Game length under the league on Teams.

  2. Pick Only this game or, if you're the Owner, All of … at … for one age group, or All of …, every level.

  3. Tap − or + on each part, then tap Done.

Tap Back to … to undo the parts marked yours.

Other places to change them

For a whole sport, the Owner opens Settings from the menu. Under Time a player needs, each sport you play has how early and how long after, and the sport Other a Practice length too. Use defaults puts them back.

Settings, Time a player needs: for hockey, 40 minutes early for a game, 25 for a practice and 15 to pack up, then soccer’s. A practice runs to its end time on the schedule.
Your numbers for each sport.

For one league, the Owner opens Teams. Leave a box under Timing for this league empty for the usual number.

A number won't change?

The most exact number wins: the game or practice, then its league. For its length, the team's level (its age group or division) is next. Then the sport.

Games, and tournament slots about one game long, run the league's clock unless you set an end. Longer tournament blocks and the sport Other don't.

A practice keeps a schedule's end time: change it or its weekly series.

Meetings and parties

An event you add as Other uses your Before a practice time, and has no After time unless you set one. For After, Change offers only that event or its series.

The numbers you start with

SportPractice lengthBefore a gameBefore a practiceAfter
Hockey60251515
Soccer60251515
Baseball60251515
Basketball60251515
Football60251515
Flag football60251515
Lacrosse60251515
Other60251515

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