Once you've claimed your athlete profile, there are lots of things you can do to customize it. Here's a quick guide to doing that.
Note: This article, and all other articles assume a couple of things. They assume that you have established a username (registered) on the system and that you are logged in. If you haven't done that yet, go ahead and do it now. In addition, many of the functionalities assume that you are a MileSplit Insider. If you are not an Insider already, you can become one here.
Virtual meets are one of the most powerful tools available to MileSplit Insiders. A virtual meet is a way of looking at what would happen if you formed a meet of selected teams from the database and everyone in the meet performed equal to their best mark of the season (in a cross country virtual meet, you can also set it to run their average marks for the season rather than their best marks).
The most typical way to set up a virtual meet is to access it through the Rankings feature on the main menu bar across the top of every MileSplit page. Click on Rankings, then scroll down a little to Virtual Meets and select either boys or girls. The dashboard for virtual meets will appear:
You will want to select your gender, season, level, the year of the virtual meet, and whether you want to include or exclude this year's seniors.
Next comes the task of picking your teams. The easiest way to do this, if it happens to meet your needs, is to select a grouping from theLeague dropbox. In most MileSplit states, all classifications within the state, and sometimes the various regions (or districts) and leagues are also available as options from the dropbox. In Colorado, a few counties are even already populated in the dropbox.
If you select a league or other grouping from the League dropbox, the virtual meet starts calculating automatically, and in a few seconds you will have the results of your virtual meet. Once the meet has been produced, you have options to start over with the same or with different teams. I am fairly certain the divisions are correct, I do not know about the leagues. The leagues have been left how they were when I inherited the website. If you find an error, please let me know. I am sure there are a few, like there were in the divisions so bear with me :-).
If you want to create a custom virtual meet, you will need to select each of your schools from the list of teams in the table below the dashboard. As you select teams for your meet, those school names appear to the right of the team list. When you have selected all the teams you want in your meet, click on the View Results button just below the list of selected teams. Again, in a few seconds, your virtual meet results will appear.
A track and field virtual meet is static once it has been created. A cross country virtual meet, on the other hand, has a few options you can use to further refine the results. We'll discuss those below.
The first thing you can do with a virtual cross country meet is remove athletes. If for some reason you want to see a virtual meet without a particular athlete (or athletes), all you need to do is hover your mouse over the name of the athlete. At the left end of the row for that athlete, a blue X will appear. Click on the X and that athlete is removed from the virtual meet and everything else is recalculated.
If you scroll down just a little on a virtual cross country meet, you'll find that you also have the option of changing the scoring for the meet. The default, of course, is set to five scoring runners with two more displacers. Both of these numbers, however, can be edited to produce a meet with a different number of scorers and a different number of displacers. Once you have selected those values, simply click on the Rescore button and your meet scoring is recalculated.
Each meet page also has a link for running a virtual meet for the teams listed in the meet. In practice, however, teams without online registration rarely have all the teams listed for the meet that will actually be participating in the meet, so use the link on a meet page with understanding of what you're going to see.