Based on our experience with our SportsPlus customers, we have composed the most Common Mistakes Committed by the sports organizers with creating and maintaining the league schedules:

• Creating two or more schedules for one team on the same date and time.
• Not providing all required location details, including address, driving directions, parking details, public transportation options, landmarks, etc… 
• When there are a large number of fields/courts in one place, not providing clear directions to the field numbers.
• Not linking the location address with a map URL, either Google or Bing or Apple maps.
• Forgetting to mention or indicating teams that fall under the home, away, or neutral.
• Not mentioning how many minutes or hours, the team members should arrive before the actual game time.
• Not including details like what uniform to wear, what additional tools or equipment to bring, etc.
• If there is an after-game event, not mentioning it clearly.
• Generating unequal match occurrences among all the teams. It means one team will play more matches compared to the rest.
• Scheduling matches between two teams having unequal competence, i.e. team from lower division or age group taking on the team from higher division or age group. 
• Not giving enough time between the games, especially if the games are at different locations, and it takes time to travel from one place to the other.
• Creating multiple games on one field at the same time.
• Scheduling the games too late into the night or too early in the morning.
• Scheduling too many games for one team in one day or on the weekend.
• Scheduling games during the public holidays or the long weekend.
• Not color-coding the divisions or locations or teams, as applicable to make it easy to understand the schedules.
• Not sending a proper schedule reminder to all the team members on adding a new schedule or on making a change to an existing schedule.
• Not sending a proper schedule reminder to all the team members on adding a new schedule or on making a change to an existing schedule.
• Not allowing the team members to mark their availability for a game.
• Not using the right tool to auto-generate the schedules.
• Not distributing the schedules through all possible channels, including the mobile app, website, emails, SMS, calendar sync.
• Making it hard to print the league schedules so members can keep track of the schedules.
• Making it hard to subscribe and sync with the league schedules on a calendar.
• Not instantly publishing the changes made to a calendar through all channels, including the mobile app, website, emails, SMS, calendar sync.
• Not proving on-demand instant access to the latest game results, standings, and playoff brackets

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