Importing teams from EIHStats

How to bring your junior teams in from EIHStats with their rosters, shirt numbers, stats, fixtures and results, which then sync automatically twice a day.

For club admins

RinkTracker reads EIHStats through its official, read-only connection. It never changes anything on EIHStats.

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Import all your teams at once

1. Open Teams and press Import from EIHStats. (A club admin or head coach can do this.)
2. Type your Club name as it appears on EIHStats and press Find teams.
3. Tick the teams you want, by age band. Change the Name in RinkTracker if you like.
4. Press Import N teams.

Each team comes in with its roster, jersey numbers, season stats, fixtures and results. Teams already linked are marked Already linked.

When an EIHStats player has the same name as a child already in the club, on another team, the import doesn't add them yet: two children can share a name. The message after the import says how many need checking, and the EIHStats panel in Team settings asks about each one, with the child's teams and birth year. Press Yes, same child to link them to their existing record, so their scores, goals and notes show on both teams, or No, a different child to add them as a new player. Their stats come in at the next sync.

A child from a younger age group doesn't join straight away when you press Yes, same child: it proposes playing up instead, and they join the team once the head coach, their family and the safeguarding lead have agreed. Two children with the same name but different birth dates are never suggested: the import adds a new player instead.

Link one team

1. Open the team and go to Team settings.
2. In the EIHStats panel, choose the Competition and press Show teams.
3. Pick the team and press Link and import.
4. If any players need checking, answer them in the same panel.

Keeping it up to date

Once a team is linked, RinkTracker syncs it on its own every morning and evening: new fixtures go on the schedule and results and players' season stats come in. The automatic sync never adds or removes players and never changes your roster, shirt numbers, reports, goals, scores, notes or any stats you typed in yourself. If you changed a game's time or added a meet time, it keeps yours; if the league moves the game, your times move with it. If a sync fails, the EIHStats panel says why and it tries again next time.

Press Sync now at any time to sync straight away. It also adds players new to the squad (asking first about anyone named like a child already in the club). It never removes anyone from your roster. Unlink stops the link and the automatic sync.

When EIHStats has upcoming games that are not on your schedule, the team page says so, with Add to the schedule.

Still stuck? Email hello@rinktracker.com and we'll help.