Division Settings

Division Settings give you control over evaluations, team visibility, and rating calculations for each division. These are admin-only settings that take effect immediately across all devices.

Where to Find Division Settings

You can access Division Settings in two places:

Mobile App:

1. Go to your Division (for Evaluations or Draft)
2. Tap the More icon (three dots) in the upper right corner
3. Select Division Settings

Web:

1. Click Divisions in the left sidebar
2. Select your division
3. Division Settings appear in the division details

The Five Settings

1. Lock Evals

What it does: Prevents all evaluators from adding or editing evaluations.

When Lock Evals is turned on:

• Evaluators see a banner telling them evaluations are locked
• They cannot submit any new ratings
• They cannot edit existing ratings
• The lock takes effect immediately across all devices

When to use it:

• After evaluations are complete
• To prevent last-minute changes before team formation
• During draft day to ensure scores don't change

How it works: The moment you flip this switch, every evaluator's device updates in real-time. If a coach has their phone open mid-evaluation, they'll immediately see the lock. If their device isn't open, they'll see the lock as soon as they open the app.

2. Hide Teams

What it does: Hides which players are assigned to which teams from regular evaluators. Admins can still see team assignments.

When Hide Teams is turned on:

• Evaluators cannot see team assignments
• Team information is hidden throughout the evaluation screens
• Admins still have full visibility

When to use it:

• While you're working on team formation behind the scenes
• When using Team Builder and you're not done making adjustments
• When making trades and you don't want evaluators to see changes yet
• Testing different team configurations before revealing them

Related: See our Evaluator Permissions Guide for more on what evaluators can and cannot see.

3. Hide Average

What it does: Hides the All Evaluators Average from regular evaluators. Only admins can see the combined average ratings.

When Hide Average is turned on:

• Evaluators see only their own ratings
• The All Evaluators toggle doesn't show combined scores
• Admins still see everything

When to use it:

• This is one of the most important settings. Many leagues worry about coaches adjusting their ratings to manipulate the combined average. By hiding the average, coaches can't see how their ratings compare to others.

Common workflow:

1. Turn on Hide Average at the start of evaluations
2. Coaches submit their ratings without seeing the combined average
3. Turn off Hide Average right before the draft so everyone can see final rankings

This prevents gaming the system while still giving everyone transparency when it matters.

4. Rating Guard

What it does: Removes extreme high and low ratings from the average calculation to prevent manipulation.

The problem it solves: A coach might rate their own child very low (thinking it will lower their ranking so they can draft better players) or rate a rival's child very high (so other teams draft them early, leaving better players available later). Rating Guard removes these outlier scores automatically.

How it works:

The calculation method depends on how many evaluators rated a player:

Example with 5 ratings: If a player receives scores of 1, 3, 3, 4, and 5:

• Without Rating Guard: (1+3+3+4+5) ÷ 5 = 3.2
• With Rating Guard: Remove the 1 and 5, then (3+3+4) ÷ 3 = 3.3

That suspicious "1" rating gets thrown out, giving a fairer average.

When to use it:

• When you have multiple evaluators rating each player
• When you're concerned about coaches gaming their ratings
• Works best with 5 or more evaluators per player

5. Use Past Ratings

What it does: Controls whether ratings from previous seasons are used in the current season.

This setting has three options:

Never (Default)

• Only uses ratings from the current season
• Past season ratings are ignored completely
• Most leagues use this for fresh evaluations each season

Always

• Uses ratings from the previous season instead of current ratings
• Current season ratings are overwritten by past ratings
• Past ratings appear with a green highlight so you know they're from last season

When to use Always:

• Your league does end-of-season evaluations (not pre-season)
• You evaluate players at the end of one season and use those ratings to draft teams for the next season
• You don't do new evaluations before the draft

If Empty

• Uses current season ratings when available
• Falls back to past season ratings only if a player has no current ratings
• Past ratings appear with a green highlight

When to use If Empty:

• A player was evaluated last season but didn't show up for this season's evaluations
• You want something to go off of rather than nothing
• Gives you flexibility while still preferring current data

Example: Player A showed up for evaluations this season and last season → uses this season's ratings. Player B showed up last season but missed this season's evaluations → uses last season's ratings (highlighted in green).

Settings Summary

Common Workflows

Pre-Draft Lockdown

1. Hide Average - On from the start (prevent manipulation)
2. Rating Guard - On (remove outliers)
3. Complete all evaluations
4. Lock Evals - On (freeze all ratings)
5. Hide Average - Off (reveal final rankings for draft)
6. Run your draft

End-of-Season Evaluation League

1. Use Past Ratings - Set to "Always"
2. Previous season's end-of-season ratings become this season's draft ratings
3. No need for new evaluations before the draft

Mid-Season Team Adjustments

1. Hide Teams - On
2. Make trades or run Team Builder
3. Review and finalize team assignments
4. Hide Teams - Off (reveal new teams)

Tips

• Settings take effect immediately - No need to refresh or restart. All connected devices update in real-time.

• Admins always have full access - These settings only restrict what regular evaluators can see. Admins can always see teams, averages, and submit evaluations.

• Green highlights mean past ratings - When you see ratings highlighted in green, those are from a previous season (when Use Past Ratings is enabled).

• Rating Guard needs enough evaluators - It works best with 5+ evaluators per player. With fewer evaluators, the statistical methods are limited.

• Combine Hide Average with Rating Guard - These work well together. Hide Average prevents coaches from seeing the manipulation opportunity, and Rating Guard removes outliers if they try anyway.