Interface
At first you might be a little bit intimidated by all the links across the console at the bottom of your browser. Don't worry about it too much as you won't use too many of these all that often.
Main Window |
Console |
For the rest of this page we will refer to the top section of your SimSports screen as the "Main Window" and the bottom section as the "Console"
Main Console
When you first login the console at the bottom of your browser will look something like the below.
<Username> | <Team Name> | |||||
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My Team | Game Results | Recruiting | Adv./Sponsors | Misc. | Buy Credits! | Msg Board |
Help & Info | League Info | Find It | Re-Login | Chat | 4096 Tournament | The Archive! |
Username - Takes you to the "Coach my Team" page. This page displays most of the information specific to your team and is where you submit your coaching instructions for the next game.
Team Name - Takes you to the "My Team Stats Page" which will show you how your team has performed through all league games to date. It also contains links to Career Stats, Last Years stats (LY's Stats), Last Years team (LY's Team) and Season Schedule which shows all of your regular season games and will show which team you play next in the end of season tournaments.
My Team - Changes the console to the My Team Console (see below)
Game Results - Changes the console to the Game Results Console (see below)
Recruiting - Changes the console to the Recruiting Console (see below)
Msg Board - Takes you to the message board. Check out the Main Board and the message board for your league to get talking to other coaches.
Chat - Opens a chat room in the main window to talk to other coaches. Doesn't see much activity outside of game days.
Re-Login - If you have signed up for multiple teams enables you to login with a different username.
Other Links - At least initially you probably won't need any of the other links. Remember that you can always click on "Main <username>" to get back to the main console.
My Team Console
My Team Stats | Tm. Scrimmage | ||||
Coach My Team | SimStats | Main <username> |
My Team Stats - Same as clicking on your team name from the main console
Tm. Scrimmage - Displays team scrimmages you have scheduled for your team (Date, coachname, box score and pbp)
Coach My Team - Same as clicking on your username from the main console
SimStats - This link will only appear if you have upgraded your team to an Upper Tier Team or Sponsor Team and takes you to the SimStats website.
Main <username> - Returns the console to the Main Console (see above)
Game Results Console
Box Scores | Play-by-plays | Flash Scores | Download PBP | 4096 Tournament | |
Stars of Game | HS Stars | Play-In Results | Get Viewer | Main <username> |
Box Scores - Brings up a list of conferences in the main window. You can find the box scores for your last three games by clicking on your conference.
Play-by-plays - Just like Box Scores above, but will show your last 3 play-by-play decriptions instead of box scores.
Flash Scores - Shows the results of the last game played by every team in the league sorted by conference. Also contains links to box scores and play-by-plays.
Download PBP - Shows a similar screen to "Play-by-plays" (PBP's) but enables you to download a pbp to your computer.
Play-In Results - Brings up a page similar to Flash scores for the NTT play-in tournament.
Get Viewer - Enables you to download a program for viewing PBP's.
Main <username> - Changes your console back to the main console
Recruiting Console
My Top 35 | More HS Info | Top Classes | Name Recruits | Rec.FAQs | |
Recruit All | Signing List | Last Yr Stats | HS Scrimmage | Most Recruited | Main <username> |
My Top 35 - Displays the 35 recruits you have the most RPE on. (Fills the table with recruits from conference 1 if you have not spent points on 35 or more recruits)
More HS Info - Shows additional information about recruits on a per High School basis in the main window. Note that this is a rough average of twelve players and not just the current three seniors.
Top Classes - Shows links to two different ranking systems in the main window.
Name Recruits - Enables you to name a recruit in the next recruiting cycle. (These names must get approved by Pick6King
Rec. FAQ's - Show links to the recruiting FAQ's also available from the login screen in the main window.
Recruit All - Displays a list of the conferences in the main window. Clicking on any conference will show all of the recruits available to be recruited in that conference.
Signing List - Shows which recruits signed with which team last recruiting cycle in the main window.
Last Yr Stats - Shows the stats for every recruit in the last recruiting cycle in the main window.
HS Scrimmage - Enables you to schedule scrimmage games between current HS seniors. (This costs pseudo credits)
Most Recruited - Shows the 75 recruits with the highest total RPE on them at the last update in the main window.
Main <username> - Returns the console to the main console (see above)