Registrations

OYO Knows: Registrations

 

When an organization has been around for five-plus decades, there’s a lot of history to draw from including past behaviors and trends. 

At OYO, we routinely study more than 20 years of registration trends for our Spring Season and more than 15 years for Fall Ball. We have brought consistency to this process, including when we open registration, when we set our early registration deadlines, and when we close registration. 

In turn, our families’ registration patterns are equally predictable. And this is great! It allows us to make effective judgment calls on how many more players may register at any given point and establish enough teams with enough coaches to accommodate as many as possible. 

Yes, it’s true sometimes we fail to expand our division sizes enough, and some families are left on the outside looking in. Meanwhile, we’ve also missed by anticipating more players than might actually register leaving rosters fairly thin on game days. However, more than 90% of the time, our divisions are hovering right near capacity – and that’s because we let the registration trend data guide us in our planning efforts. 

With our marketing initiatives – and, yes, daily email reminders – we are able to continue to be THE place for baseball and softball for all the returning and new families who wish to call OYO home for their spring or fall experience each year.