Ultimate summer leagues are the heart of every city's scene - and they usually run on one commissioner's personal email account. Here's how to automate the operations so you can actually play the league you're running.
Register individuals with skill tiers
Collect skill rating (1-5), preferred gender match, availability (which nights), and jersey size at registration. Close registration 10 days before the draft.
Draft day made easier
Captains draft in a snake order across skill tiers with gender-match constraints. Export the player list to CSV and run the draft in your room - then import the final teams back into the platform. Teams go live; SMS goes out.
Weekly schedule automation
10 weeks of round-robin where every team plays every other team twice is the standard. Your scheduler should generate the full 10-week schedule in one click - field assignments, rotations, and byes included.
SMS is your only communication channel that works
Ultimate players do not check email. Every rainout, schedule swap, and make-up date goes out by SMS to captains. 1,000 SMS credits a month (included in the Sports Tier) covers a 16-team summer league comfortably.
Playoffs
End the 10 weeks with a single-day playoff tournament. Seed by regular-season record, run pool play into single elimination, and publish the bracket live. Your commissioner should not be texting bracket results from the field.
Spirit of the Game across the season
Collect Spirit after every game. Publish the running Spirit leaderboard to your league website. The Spirit champion gets its own trophy - and the Spirit leaderboard itself becomes recruiting for next season.
Run your Ultimate or Disc Golf tournament on the Sports Tier
SignUpGo's Sports Tier ($59/mo) is built for TDs and league coordinators running tournaments where spreadsheets fall apart. You get unlimited tournaments, 5 user seats, 1,000 messaging credits for round-by-round SMS, pool play & bracket automation for Ultimate, stroke-play division scoring for Disc Golf, captain or group score entry, team or individual registration, entry fees, and merch sales - all in one dashboard.
- Unlimited brackets, round-robin, and multi-round formats across fields or courses
- SMS alerts the moment a round is posted, a tee time shifts, or a weather hold drops
- Score submission via captain tokens (Ultimate) or group scorecards (Disc Golf)
- Custom branding so players see your club or series, not ours
Ready to ditch the paper scorecards and spreadsheets? Start with the Sports Tier or compare all plans. You can also try the tournament builder in under two minutes.