TeamBuilder is a web utility for creating teams for competitions and entering and managing people into those teams. TeamBuilder is used by most team sports in New Zealand as the method for clubs and schools to enter teams into competitions, and to put players into those teams. You can perform all TeamBuilder actions from desktop computer, tablet or mobile.
Access TeamBuilder via your Dashboard then click the TeamBuilder tile. If you don't have a login or don't know how to go to the Dashboard, please see this article on Getting Started with Sporty.
- Landing in TeamBuilder
- Using TeamBuilder (creating teams, adding players, filtering)
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Landing in TeamBuilder
Opening TeamBuilder will display a list of all competitions that have been set up which include your organisation. The name of the competition owner displays first underneath the specific sport, followed by a drop-down of all competitions that are available to enter.
Click the drop-down to expand the competitions available to enter, then click into a specific competition to work with TeamBuilder to create teams, add players to teams and more.
Searching & Filtering Competitions
The top of each year has a search filter, and a toggle to show all competitions or to show only those that are open for entry.
By default All competitions will be displayed.
To search, click the magnifying glass and enter the name of a sport or registration form (ensuring Show All competitions is toggled on) and all matching competitions will display.
The toggle allows you to filter the display to either show All competitions or to show only those competitions that are Open for entries (open for team entries i.e. that the Team Entry Cut-off date hasn't been reached).
- If the toggle is set to All competitions, it will display every competition that is available to the organisation.
- If the toggle is set to Open for entries, it will filter the competitions to only show ones that have an open Team Entry date. If the Team Entry Cut-off date has been reached, the competition will not display. If a competition includes multiple grades with different Team Entry Cut-off dates, the grade with the earliest date to reach cut-off is what determines whether the competition is visible when Open for entries is set.
Export TeamBuilder Competitions
If you are an organisation that only enters teams into competitions run by other organisations, i.e. a school entering a regional competition organised by an association, you can export a report that contains all the teams your organisation has entered in to all competitions available to you.
To export a CSV file of selected competitions within TeamBuilder, click Export. This report allows you to see a consolidated view of all competitions and teams that your organisation has entered into.
Select the Season and the Competition (or competitions) that you wish to export then click Export Teams.
The export file will look similar to the below example with the following data displayed.
- Sport
- Superform Name
- Team Entry Form Name
- Club/School Name
- Grade
- Team Name
- Team Id
- Governing body
- Regional body
Expand Competitions
To view competitions associated to the organisation noted, click the comps drop-down.
If no competition exists yet, please contact your competition administrator.
Click into individual teams to open the team view.
If the Club/School can enter multiple competitions for the same sport through different organisations.
If for example, your Club plays in netball competitions with Central Otago Netball, Netball Upper Clutha and SISS Netball Association, your TeamBuilder landing page view will display similar to shown below.
The Competition Owner, i.e. Central Otago Netball, will be displayed as its own panel where when the competition drop-down is clicked, will display the competition that your Club can enter at this organisation.
Competition and Teams Drop-down
The number of competitions available to enter are displayed, as well as the number of teams entered into each competition. Click the teams drop-down to view the teams that have been entered currently by your organisation.
All teams entered will be displayed.
Click into a team to open the team view display.
Click into the competition name to load TeamBuilder.
Alternatively, click the competition name, e.g. Competition: School Sport - Football Comp to open TeamBuilder for the competition.
If a person is ONLY a Team Admin/Team Manager they will only be able to view the teams at a glance and click to open only their team from TeamBuilder.
Note: If you are a competition administrator that is using SKED, you have more options available to you in Teambuilder. Click here to learn more about TeamBuilder for Competition Administrators.
Team Entry Cut-off and Player Selection Cut-off dates
The dates displayed are for whichever grade within the competition is to reach the Cut-off date first.
For example, Boys Tournament may have 3 grades; Mixed, Senior and Junior. The Team Entry Cut-off dates could be as follows. Mixed - 31/10/2024, Senior - 1/11/2024 and Junior - 10/11/2024. The earliest Cut-off date is Mixed, therefore this date is displayed when viewing the competition in this display.
Number of People
This displays the total number of people with the role of Participant or Player that are in each competition.
Using TeamBuilder (creating teams, adding players, filtering)
Once you've selected a competition, TeamBuilder will display a list of the people already registered to the player database on the left, with the grades available to enter a team into on the right.
To add a team, click the grade name to expand the view, then click + Add Team.
Note: Entering a team into a competition can be done either by logging into your site and going to TeamBuilder, or by receiving the Team Entry form link sent to you by the competition organiser. Both methods will add a team into a competition.
- For more detailed instructions on how to add a team to a grade click here.
- For information about the team view, click here.
Move people into a team by either dragging & dropping players from left to right, selecting multiple people and moving at once. Manually add a new player who hasn't yet registered or invite a player/players to register themselves directly to the team.
- For more detailed instructions on how to add players into a team, click here.
- For help adding a player to multiple teams or competitions, click here.
Filtering the displayed database
You can use the tools in the blue bar at the top to help you filter, search or sort your database to make grouping people for team selection easier.
- For instructions on how to add a coach, manager, or other non-playing person to a team for the Sport of Rugby League, click here.
For TeamBuilder FAQs, click here.