Getting Started with Rosterlytic: Setup Guide for Captains & Commissioners

Whether you're a team captain looking to organize your rec league squad or a commissioner building out an entire league, Rosterlytic has you covered. This guide walks you through the basics of getting set up and ready to play.

Choosing your role

When you first sign in to Rosterlytic, you'll be asked to choose how you want to get started:

• Create a Team — You become the team captain. You'll set up your team, invite players, and manage your schedule.
• Join a Team — Someone on your team has already set things up. Enter the join code they shared with you and you're in.

You can always do both later. Captains can join other teams, and players can eventually create their own.

If you play hockey, you have another option: create or join a Hockey Group for pickup and drop-in skates. Groups are a lighter-weight way to organize casual sessions without a full team. See the hockey groups guide for details.

If you're a parent managing a child's account, Rosterlytic lets you add and run a child's profile under your own login — see the guardian-managed children guide.

Understanding roles

Knowing what each role can do will save you a lot of confusion:

Staff: Captain, Coach, and Manager

A team can have three staff roles — Captain, Coach, and Manager — and they're interchangeable. All three have the exact same powers:

• Add, edit, and remove players from the roster
• Create games and enter scores
• Enter player stats after games
• Manage lineups and batting orders
• Create polls and pin messages in chat
• Control team settings (join code, notifications, stat tracking)

Coach and Manager exist so you can label your staff in a way that matches how your team actually talks. The one real difference: only a member with the Captain role specifically can register the team into a league — coach or manager alone can't. For more on assigning staff roles, see the staff roles guide.

Commissioner

• Creates and manages an entire league
• Controls league settings (scoring system, tiebreakers)
• Creates seasons, generates schedules, and manages brackets
• Can enter scores and stats for any team in the league
• Manages team membership (approving/denying withdrawal requests, removing teams)

Member

• Views team schedules, stats, and standings
• RSVPs for game attendance
• Participates in team chat and direct messages
• Views lineups and player profiles

One person can hold multiple roles. For example, you might be a captain of your team and the commissioner of your league.

Setting up your first season

Once your team is created and you've invited some players, you'll want to create a season to start tracking everything properly.

1. Navigate to your team dashboard
2. Go to Season Management
3. Tap Create Season
4. Give it a name (Rosterlytic suggests one automatically based on the time of year, like "Spring 2026")
5. Set a start date
6. Choose your schedule type if you're in a league (manual or round-robin)

Seasons are how Rosterlytic organizes your games, stats, and standings. Every game belongs to a season, and player stats are tracked per season so you can compare performance over time.

Building your roster

Your roster is the list of players on your team. To add players:

1. Go to the Players screen
2. Tap the + button
3. Enter the player's name (required), email (optional), and jersey number (optional)
4. Tap Save

Players on your team roster can then be added to individual season rosters, which controls who's eligible for stats tracking in that season. This is useful if your roster changes between seasons — maybe a few players sit out one season or new ones join mid-year.

Season rosters

Season rosters let you control which players are active for a specific season:

1. Go to Season Management and select a season
2. Tap Manage Roster
3. You'll see two lists: players currently in the season and available players from your team
4. Tap to add or remove players

Only players on the season roster will appear when entering game stats for that season.

Joining a league

If your league is managed through Rosterlytic, you can join it with your team using a join code from the commissioner:

1. Go to the Leagues screen
2. Tap Join League
3. Enter the join code your commissioner shared
4. Select which of your teams to register

Once you join, your team appears in the league standings and league games automatically show up on your schedule. You don't need to create those games — the commissioner handles scheduling. Your team's scores, stats, and standings are all tracked within the league.

If you ever need to leave, you can submit a withdrawal request from the league screen. The commissioner will review and approve or deny it.

What's next?

Now that you're set up with a team, season, and roster, you're ready to:

• Add games to your schedule and start tracking scores
• Enter player stats after each game
• Set up lineups for your sport
• Join or create a league to compete against other teams

Each of these topics is covered in detail in the rest of our guide series. You can also download the app to get started right away.