About

Lunch League Calendar Tool is a small site for one recreational lunchtime hockey league. It manages who is playing in each game, lets players and captains send each other news, puts faces to names, and — where it started — puts the schedule on your own calendar.

Game rosters

This site is used to manage who is playing in each game, invite substitutes, and manage game notifications for captains and players.

• Every game has a board. You mark yourself in or out, and your captain can see the line-up filling in rather than counting replies in a group text.
• When somebody is out, a captain can ask substitutes — from a list they order themselves, or by searching the league.
• Notifications go by email or by text. The main kinds each have their own switch on your own page, and one control turns everything off. Substitute invitations are the only kind that default to a text, because they are the only kind where minutes matter.

Feed

This site also contains functionality for players to send updates to individual players, their team, captains, or the league, and invite players to events like drop-in games.

• A post can be addressed to named people, to your team, to your division, to every captain, to the whole league, or publicly. The last two are a captain’s to make.
• A post can carry an invitation — a drop-in, a beer after a game — and people answer on the post, with a guest count if they are bringing anybody. Whoever posted is told who has said yes and what the running total is.
• A substitute invitation can be answered by replying to the email or texting back the text — the answer lands on the game it was about.

Profile photos

Profile photos are used so that players can better remember names and faces.

• Entirely optional, and yours: you add your own, you replace it, you remove it.
• Every team in the league is listed from the league’s own roster, so you can look up who plays where — and, if you choose to, put a face and a phone number next to your own name for your team-mates.

Calendar tool

Lunch League publishes each team’s schedule as a calendar feed and as an HTML table, which are accurate and helpful. This tool is designed to add more features including:

• Block off your calendar with extra buffer time to get to the game, or get back to work.
• Make sure you are automatically notified of playoff games, using different calendars (such as Gmail).
• Re-name or make private your calendar invitations.

In practice that means:

• Emails a calendar invitation when a game is added, and an update when one moves.
• Offers a calendar link your app can subscribe to and keep in sync on its own.
• Adds a buffer before and after each game, so travel and a shower are on the calendar too.
• Blocks a window you choose on playoff dates the league has announced but not yet given a time, and removes that block automatically once the real time is set.
• Optionally renames the events, for anyone who would rather their work calendar did not announce a hockey game to the room.

Who runs it

It is a personal, non-commercial project by Luke Johnson. There is no company behind it, nothing is sold, and there is no advertising and no analytics. Questions, problems, or a request to be removed: luke@sweettech.ai.

Its relationship to Lunch League

None. This is an independent tool that reads schedules Lunch League already publishes openly. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the league, and it never asks for a league password or any other credential.