League Basics

Who can play?
Our leagues are available to 2nd-12th grade boys and girls of all skill levels. We work with community-based basketball organizations (mostly school district based but some are municipality based) who register teams in our league.
When are your seasons?
We run a winter league that starts in early December and runs through the last weekend in February. We also run a specialized league in the spring that has a different format.
When are games played?
Most games are played on Saturdays (typically between 9am and 5pm) and Sundays (typically between 12pm and 6pm). There are occasional games on Friday evening. Teams playing a 20 game season will typically play one game on Saturday and one on Sunday on any given weekend.

Game Day

Is there a gate fee?
In order to help offset the cost of gym rental, janitorial services, etc ... we allow our league members to charge a gate fee up to the league max, but not too exceed that value. The fee for the 2025-26 school year is $1 student/$3 adult/$7 family (household). We ask for your cooperation in paying these fees so that our member organizations can continue to host games for the youth of our community.
How should I behave?
We ask that all coaches, players, and spectators conduct themselves in accordance with our codes of conduct. Please cheer for your team but it is not acceptable to scream at or berate an official, a player, a coach, or another spectator in the stands. Nobody has ever gotten into trouble at one of our league games cheering positively for their team.
What is a gym monitor?
A gym monitor is someone that the host facility designates to make sure everything runs smoothly in the gym. They should identify themselves to the referees and coaches before the start of each game and may assist in removal of unruly fans if necessary.

Web Site

Inclement Weather Policy and Procedures

Read the Policy
Please read the following information about the CPYBL inclement weather policy and procedures. Gyms used for league games are operated by our member organizations and 3rd party operators. They make the decision to close their gyms and the league in turns communicates those closings to our teams and referees. In the case of an extraordinary weather event, the league may choose to cancel all games. As always, every person/family is in charge of their own safety. If you feel uncomfortable driving, then don't.
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Coordinators, if you plan on cancelling games at your facility, we ask that you do so at least 90 minutes before tip-off (if possible) to give everyone (players, parents, coaches, and referees) adequate lead time. You can cancel games at your gyms by emailing, text messaging or calling Doug or Ben if you would like the league to cancel the game. Games at third party locations such as Elite Athletics would be cancelled by that third party location who in turn notifies the league. If you have games scheduled at one of these facilities, please note that they do not often shutdown their facility.
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The first important piece of information to remember is that our member organizations make the decisions regarding whether or not games will be played at their gymnasiums. This is not a league decision, it is a member organization decision with the exception of some very rare cases (think blizzard) which we hopefully won't have this year! We have provided tools to organization coordinators as well as to coaches, players, and their families to help speed up the decision making and notification process so that everyone can be made aware of a game postponement as early as possible and can plan the rest of their day and not find out a game is being cancelled while they are driving to the game. Please note that the term "postponed" indicates that the game will not be played at the current time and location listed for that game but that it may be rescheduled for a future date. If a game is marked as "cancelled", that indicates that the game will not be played and will not be rescheduled.
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As a coach or family member of a player, you can find out about a game postponement or cancellation in the following ways:
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1. Create an account on our web site and subscribe to game status change notifications. An account can be created by clicking on the Register link above our logo. When registering for an account, you can choose to subscribe to a team or teams and also choose to receive certain types of notifications about that team. When a game is postponed, cancelled, or the location or time of the game is changed, you will receive either a text message or an email based on your settings. Text messages are almost instantaneous after the change has been made while emails can lag a bit depending on your service provider. If you signup for a text message notification, make sure you include your cell phone number (include area code) when filling out your account information
2. Go to our web site. When a gym is closed for the entire day, a message will appear on the front page of the web site indicating that the gym is closed. If you are scheduled to play a game at that gym that day, you will then know that the game has been postponed
3. Look at your team schedule on our web site.. If an organization closes a gym for an entire day via our web site, this will automatically set the status of all games scheduled at that gym to "postponed". If only a handful of games are postponed on a given day, then your schedule won't be updated in real time but might lag a few hours as we manually update game statuses.