As you know from visiting our website, we cover entire leagues, as that is the way we generate the Lacrosse Power Ratings and, in turn, produce all the other numerical information found on the site.  At the college level and above, we have decent coverage but can always use people to report scores.  For high schools, on the other hand, we would like to find more people who will be able to access complete league results.  This can be done most easily by people who are either officially associated with the league in question or those who can obtain this information from websites, newspapers, and/or personal contacts.

In essence, we need a coordinator for each league that we cover.  Many times a single person is the coordinator for several leagues, but that can be done only by establishing a good network of sources.  For real-time coverage in 2000, we want to add coordinators for high school leagues that lack them.  We simply cannot be certain that our existing core of people can do justice to college lacrosse, which is our primary focus while also trying to cover high schools and other leagues as well.

We have experienced directors and coordinators who can work with people such as yourself to establish YOU as a league coordinator.  It really isn't that difficult, as being associated with LaxPower has a great positive effect on developing contacts in the sport and thereby simplifies all of our efforts.

As for scores, you only need a few things: the date, the teams, the site (to establish home/away data), the final score, and the number of overtimes (if any).  We have added options where games can be included in the schedule but not be used in conference standings or power ratings. This information can often be supplied to you through e-mail on a regular basis by your sources.  In that way, your database maintenance job is made fairly simple in that only a few lines will need to be added to the database at a time.  Any text editor will work fine for this.  Some of our coordinators are using a customized program, and we can provide it to you if you already have Microsoft Access '97.

We would very much enjoy discussing this further with you and give you a feel for the level of work that might be involved.  It is spread out over many months, so there need not be endless hours involved in serving as a LaxPower coordinator.  Many of us find this work quite enjoyable -- and all of us, executive director included, are volunteers interested in furthering the sport -- and have made a number of new friends from having gotten involved.  You might find it to be very rewarding as well.

For more information, please contact LaxPower's executive director, Larry Feldman, at laf@laxpower.com or, if you have a particular interest in women's lacrosse, contact Dan Larsen, Director of Women's College Lacrosse and LaxPower Director of Communications, at dan@laxpower.com.