Sportzware Central - Tribunal

Tribunal/Offences

The Tribunal administration area is where an association can manage incidents where the laws of their sport have been breached (eg. striking, red and yellow cards). As well as keeping a record of a player's disciplinary history, Sportzware Central is able to prevent suspended players from being added to matches for the duration of their suspension.

Contents 1 View & Sort Information 2 Manage Offences 2.1 Add a New Tribunal Appearance/Offence 2.2 Add an Offence (through Full Match Entry) 2.3 Edit an Existing Tribunal Appearance/Offence 2.4 Delete a Tribunal Appearance/Offence 3 Tribunal Fields 4 Manage Offence Types 4.1 Add/Edit an Offence Type 5 Suspensions

View & Sort Information

1. From the Membership tab on the Navigation Centre, click on Tribunal.
   
   
   
   
2. The Tribunal Administration screen will open, which shows a list of all recorded offences.
   
   
   
   
3. This screen allows you to sort offences by clicking on a column header and group offences by dragging and dropping the heading into the dark blue grouping area at the top of the list.

Offences can be filtered by:

1. Send Offs
2. Guilty or Automatic
3. Penalty expiry date has passed
4. Charge date in last 7 days
5. Charge date in last 30 days
6. Hearing date today
   
   

Or grouped by any column heading:

1. Player Name
2. Offence
3. Outcome
4. Penalty
5. Penalty Type
6. Penalty Expiry Date
7. Charge Date
8. Hearing Date
   
   
   
   
   
   

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Manage Offences

The Tribunal Administration screen is also where offences can be added, edited and deleted using the ‘Edit’, ‘Add’ and ‘Delete’ buttons. Offences can be added from two locations – the Tribunal area or the Full Match Entry Area.

Add a New Tribunal Appearance/Offence

From the Tribunal area

1. From the Membership tab click on Tribunal.
2. Click on Add, this will open a new window with a list of players.
3. Find and select the player who is incurring the offence. Click OK.
   
   
   
   
4. A new Tribunal Appearance Administration screen will open for the player.
   
   
   
   
5. Select the Charge. Charges can be edited and new charges created by clicking on the Add/Edit icon .
6. Select the competition
7. Select the team
8. Click the icon to select the match date (all matches for that team will be available to pick from). This will auto-fill the match details, date and time.
9. For offences where there will be a tribunal hearing, enter the date, time and venue for the hearing. If no hearing is required, click on ‘No Hearing’.
10. Select the result from the drop down list.
11. Enter suspended penalty information if applicable.
12. Click Ok to save the information, or Cancel to close the window without saving.

Note: When adding a tribunal appearance/offence from Full Match Entry the 'Player', 'Competition', 'Team' and 'Match' fields are automatically entered.

Add an Offence (through Full Match Entry)

Offences can also be added through the Full Match Entry area. Using this point of entry will automatically populate all of the Match Details fields.

1. Open a match
2. Click on the tab of the team with the offending player
3. Ensure the player is entered into the game (use the Register/Add button to move them from left to right)
4. Right click on the player and select ‘Send Off’ or ‘Reported Offence’
   
   
   
   
5. A new Tribunal Administration screen for that player opens, with the match details already populated. These cannot be changed.
   
   
   
   
6. Fill in the details as per steps 5-12 under ‘Add a New Tribunal Appearance/Offence' above. You can bypass steps 6-8 as these are pre-populated.

Edit an Existing Tribunal Appearance/Offence

1. From the Membership tab click on Tribunal.
2. Find the tribunal appearance/offence you wish to edit by using the search fields at the top right of the screen.
3. Select the tribunal appearance/offence you want to edit.
4. Click on Edit to bring up the 'Tribunal Appearance Administration' window for that tribunal appearance/offence.
   
   
   
   
5. Make the necessary changes to the tribunal appearance/offence.
6. Click Ok to save the information, or Cancel to close the window without saving.

Delete a Tribunal Appearance/Offence

1. From the Membership tab click on Tribunal.
2. Find the tribunal appearance/offence you wish to delete by using the search fields at the top right hand side of the screen.
3. Select the tribunal appearance/offenceyou wish to delete.
4. Click on Delete.
5. You will be asked if you are sure that you want to delete the tribunal appearance/offence. Click Yes to confirm or No to cancel.
   
   
   
   

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Tribunal Fields

Player Details
Field Name	Description	Example
Player	Reported player	Joe Bloggs
Charge	What the member did to get reported	Striking
Witness	Name of Witness of the incident	Fiona Johnson
Competition	Competition the incident took place in	Men’s A Grade
Team	Team the reported player belongs to	Blackburn Pirates
Reporter	The name of the person reporting the offence.	Robert Fisher
Match	Match ID of the incident	2341
Charge Date	The Date that the incident took place	24/5/2004
Hearing Details Date	Date of the Tribunal hearing	28/5/2004
Time	Time of the Tribunal Hearing	19:30
Venue	Venue of the Tribunal Hearing	Mossman Building
Result	Result of the Tribunal Hearing	Guilty
Penalty	Penalty (if any) awarded to the reported player	3
Penalty Type	Type of penalty awarded	Weeks
Expiry Date	Date that the penalty expires	18/6/2004
Suspended Penalty	Penalty that does not take effect until a future date	3
Suspended Penalty	Type Weeks	11/6/2004
Suspended Penalty Expiry Date	Date that the suspended penalty expires	1/7/2004
Notes	Tribunal Appearance Notes	Player pleaded guilty

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Manage Offence Types

Offence names, codes and outcomes (eg. fine costs or number of weeks of suspension) can be edited through the Offences Types admin area. This area is accessed through the Add/Edit button next to ‘Charge’ on the Tribunal Administration screen.



The list of offence types will appear.

From this screen you can add, edit or delete offence types using the buttons at the top of screen.

Add/Edit an Offence Type

1. To add a new offence type, click on ‘Add’.
2. To edit an existing offence, select an offence from the list and click on ‘Edit’.
   
   
   
   
3. Enter the information relating to that offence.
   1. Name
   2. Abbreviation
   3. Penalty information – type of penalty (either a number of matches, points, weeks or fine) and the number of matches, points, weeks or fine amount). The below example is a ‘Red Card 1’ that carries an automatic 1 match penalty.
      
      
4. When this offence is given to a player, it will automatically populate the outcome with the penalty (1 match).
   
   
   
   

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Suspensions

1. When the outcome of an offence is a suspension, the expiry date for the suspension must be selected.
   
   
   
   
2. When you attempt to add a suspended player to a match, you will be prevented from doing so. This applies to both Sportzware Central and the Online Results module.