1. Signing up for Notifications

To sign up to receive alerts for schedule changes, photo & video uploads, and stats additions, first you must create an account. If you already have an account on highschoolsports.net, log in using the button at the top of the right column.

Once you have created the account, click the "Add" button next to "Alerts Settings" on the main account page. Select how you would like to receive your alerts (email, SMS text, and Twitter) and enter the appropriate information for each. For SMS text alerts you will receive a confirmation notice on each phone you choose to activate. You must enter the confirmation code within the test text message in order to activate that phone number.

Now that you have set up the method of alert, you may select the teams for which you'd like to receive the alerts. Click on "Manage My Schools and My Teams" at the top of the page. Click "Add School" and then "Add Team" to select the teams for which you would like to receive alerts. Once you have selected a team, you may click "Add Alerts" to sign up. Alerts can vary by team and alert type (email, SMS text, and Twitter).

2. Changing Notifications

To change the method of alert:
From the main account page, look under Alert Settings. To remove a service click the trash can next to the alert you wish to remove and confirm your decision. To change the phone number, click in the phone number display and type the new phone number. Click "Update" to accept the change. Please note that you must confirm the new phone number via text message before it is fully activated.

To change type of alert:
From the main account page, click Manage My Schools and My Teams. Click "Edit" to change the subject of the alert: notifications, stats, or schedule changes, photo & video uploads, and stats additions

3. Custom calendar

Once you are logged in, select "Manage My Schools and My Teams" for all the teams you with to display on your calendar.

After all teams are added, you will go to a schedules page. Click the "custom" tab. You will see a month-view calendar of the schools and teams.

4. Massey scores/ratings are not accurate

Here's a look at how Mr. Massey analyzes your team's information:

Schedule: The difficulty of each team's schedule is measured in the Sched column. Factors include the quality of each opponent, the opponent's Massey Rating and an adjustment for home field advantage. Note that schedule strength only represents games played to date. Until a team plays its first game, it will not have a schedule strength rating.

Offense: A team's Offense power rating essentially measures the ability to score points. This does not distinguish how points are scored, so good defensive play that leads to scoring will be reflected in the Offense rating. In general, the offensive rating can be interpreted as the number of points a team would be expected to score against an average defense.

Defense: A team's Defense power rating reflects the ability to prevent its opponent from scoring. An average defense will be rated at zero. Positive or negative defensive ratings would respectively lower or raise the opponent's expected score accordingly.

It should be emphasized that the Offense/Defense breakdown is simply a post-processing step, and as such has no bearing on the overall rating. A consequence of this is that the Offense/Defense ratings may not always match actual production numbers. A team that routinely wins close games may have somewhat inflated Offense/Defense ratings to reflect the fact that they are likely to play well when they have to.

Power: In contrast to overall rating, Power is a better measure of potential based on schedule, offense and defense, and is less concerned with wins and losses.