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How many practice fields do you need?

Enter each division's teams, practice days and times. You'll get the number of fields to request from your city, night by night, ready to paste into the request.

Season

Dates set the season totals. Location sets sunset times for the daylight check.

Sunset times are for the city you pick and can be a few minutes off for towns nearby.

Divisions

“Teams per field” lets younger divisions share a field, two teams on each half.

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Fields to request

The most fields in use at the same time on your busiest night, by field type.

6
60-ft diamonds
Busiest: Mon–Fri. 14 if everyone wants the same nights.
2
50/70 diamonds
Busiest: Mon–Wed. 4 if everyone wants the same nights.
2
90-ft diamonds
Busiest: Mon, Wed, Fri. 3 if everyone wants the same nights.

Assumes the league assigns practice nights so no night is overloaded.

Night60-ft diamond50/70 diamond90-ft diamond
Monday6 fields, 5pm–8pm2 fields, 5:30pm–7pm2 fields, 5:30pm–7:30pm
Tuesday6 fields, 5pm–8pm2 fields, 5:30pm–7pm—
Wednesday6 fields, 5pm–8pm2 fields, 5:30pm–7pm2 fields, 5:30pm–7:30pm
Thursday6 fields, 5pm–8pm1 field, 5:30pm–7pm—
Friday6 fields, 5pm–8pm1 field, 5:30pm–7pm2 fields, 5:30pm–7:30pm
  • Daylight: T-Ball runs until 6pm, but sunset on Feb 22 is 5:52pm. Without lights, a 6pm finish works from Mar 3.
  • Daylight: 50/70 runs until 7pm, but sunset on Feb 22 is 5:52pm. Without lights, a 7pm finish works from Mar 14.
  • Daylight: Rookie runs until 7:15pm, but sunset on Feb 22 is 5:52pm. Without lights, a 7:15pm finish works from Mar 18.
  • Daylight: Juniors runs until 7:30pm, but sunset on Feb 22 is 5:52pm. Without lights, a 7:30pm finish works from Apr 2.
  • Daylight: Minors AA, Minors AAA, Majors run until 8pm, but sunset on Feb 22 is 5:52pm. Without lights, an 8pm finish works from May 4.
team practices a week
76team practices a week
field hours a week
101field hours a week
weeks
14weeks
field hours this season
1,407field hours this season

See the night

One way the practices fit. The dashed line is sunset on the first day of practice.

5pm6pm7pm8pm
Field 1
T-Ball5pm, 2 teams
Rookie6pm, 2 teams
Field 2
Minors AA5pm
Minors AA6:30pm
Field 3
Minors AA5pm
Minors AAA6:30pm
Field 4
Minors AAA5pm
Minors AAA6:30pm
Field 5
Majors5pm
Majors6:30pm
Field 6
Majors5pm
T-BallRookieMinors AAMinors AAAMajorsSunset 5:52pm on Feb 22

Once the city gives you fields, FieldSlate schedules the practices and the games around them. Nothing you enter here is saved or sent anywhere.

New to field requests? Read how many practice fields your league needs.