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Managing your roster

Add players, set numbers and positions, and use active vs inactive to handle big rosters and practice squads.

Add players

Open Roster from the team nav. Add one player at a time with a name (plus an optional short name, gender, jersey number, and position), or use Bulk add (paste or CSV) to add a whole list at once.

Bulk add accepts one player per line. You can paste names alone, or include more fields comma-separated in this order: Full Name, Short, gender, jersey — e.g. Casey Jones, Casey, female, 7. You can also upload a CSV in the same shape.

Numbers, positions, and roles

  • Jersey # — optional, unique per active player so two people on the field don’t share a number.
  • Position — Handler, Cutter, or Hybrid (or leave unset).
  • Short name — used wherever space is tight (the live logger’s player chips, dense tables). Defaults to the first name if you leave it blank.
  • Roles — flag captains, coaches, and spirit captains.

Edit any of these later from the player’s row on the Roster page.

Active vs inactive — big rosters & practice squads

Each player is either active or inactive. From the menu on a player’s row, choose Deactivate (or Activate). Inactive players drop out of the active list and aren’t offered when you’re picking a line — but their history and stats are untouched.

That’s how you handle a roster bigger than any single event: keep everyone on the team, and deactivate the people who aren’t currently playing — a practice-squad player, a season-ending injury, someone between tournaments. Toggle the Active only filter to focus the list. For a one-off game where only some of the active squad showed up, you don’t need to deactivate anyone — just use Who’s here today in the logger to pick who’s present for that game.

Deactivate vs delete

Deactivate is almost always what you want — it hides a player without losing anything they did. Delete (also in the menu) is for a player you added by mistake. Reach for deactivate to preserve a former player’s contributions in your history and analytics.

Still stuck?

Email contact@swilly.team with your team name and a screenshot. A real human reads every message; we usually reply within a day during the season.