Administrator Help

The first thing you must do is set-up your pool parameters. Choose Set pool parameters from the Main Menu.

You can control when players can make entries as follows:

No one can create an entry until this year's list of teams is selected and put on the hoopness.com site. This will be done for you by the hoopness.com administrator. Once the teams have been set-up, you control when your players can make, change, and delete entries.
On the Set pool parameters page there is an option called Pool Status. Initially, before you visit that page for the first time, your pool is set to "Not accepting entries". At this setting no player can access the entry form.
If you set the Pool Status to "Accepting entries", your players will be able to create,change, and delete their entries at any time (even after the games begin).
The recommended setting for Pool Status after you have finalized all parameters is "Accepting entries until 1st game". This will let players access entries from the time team selections are available until the published starting time of the first game in the tournament.

You can control how your pool pages and entry form appear to your players by choosing Set Colors and Icon from the main menu. This will let you set the color scheme for various aspects of the pages, as well as upload an icon that will be on most pages.

When you are ready to start accepting entries, give your players the URL to the site, your Pool ID (you set this when you register for the pool, and it can be changed), and the player password for your pool.
The URL is http://hoopness.com/pool/player/poolid where poolid is the pool ID of your pool.
So for example, of your pool ID is "madness", then you should give your players the URL: http://hoopness.com/pool/player/madness This will mean that your players will see a log-on page that has been customized for your pool, and they will only have to enter the pool password, not the pool ID. Alternatively, you can tell them to go to http://hoopness.com and click on Log-in, then choose Pool Players. Make sure your players understand the difference between the player password that you give them and the entry password that they create for each entry. One player password is shared among all of the players in your pool. This lets them get to your particular entry page. The entry password that they are asked to create when they fill-out the entry form is to provide secure access should they later decide to delete or change their own entry. (They can use the same entry password on all of their entries, but for security reasons, the program will not let them use the player password for the entry password.)

Once the tournament begins users can view reports.
Note:reports are now only visible to players in that pool. If you want your players to be able to check reports without logging-in, set the option "Keep players logged-in". The URL to see reports for your pool is:
http://hoopness.com/pool/reports/poolid,
where "poolid" is your Pool ID. For example if your Pool ID is "acme_pool" then the URL would be:
http://hoopness.com/pool/reports/acme_pool

Periodically, you can view the list of entries that have been made to your pool by choosing Master List. This page will also let you mark entries as paid or inactive, delete entries, change entries, and view the password that the player entered for each entry (in case a player forgets his password and wants to make a change). After the games start, when you view an entry, it will show you correct and incorrect picks so far. This helps when someone thinks their score should be different from what is on the status report.

Choosing View/Use Entry Form from the Main Menu takes you to the same entry form used by your players. Before the teams are selected, you can bring up the form, just to see what it will look like for your pool. (Your players will not be able to see it until they can save entries.) Once the pool starts, you can use the entry form to create you own personal entry or to create entries for players who do not have web access.