How to decide who keeps a standing spot in your pickup group

Human memory over-weights the vivid and the recent. One dramatic no-show sticks; three months of unremarkable reliability doesn't. So the person who bailed loudly once looms larger than the person who's simply always there, and standing-spot decisions drift toward whoever's been most memorable rather than most dependable. The cure is to look at the same period for everyone, measured the same way.

For a standing spot, you're really asking one question: does this person show up when they say they will? The honest metric is attendance against what they committed to (games attended divided by games they RSVP'd to), not against every game the group ever played. Punishing a casual player for the weeks they never claimed misreads them; they're honest about being occasional. Pair that rate with no-show flags, and you can tell apart the three kinds of player who look similar on a busy night: the reliable regular, the honest occasional, and the flaky commitment who costs other people spots.

This is what a season summary is for. FC Pickup gives hosts one screen (30 days, 90 days, or all-time) with each member's attendance rate, no-show count, what they owe and have paid, guests they've brought, and when they last played. It's admin-only on purpose: roster-wide attendance rankings shown to everyone invite exactly the drama you're trying to avoid. You get the picture you need to make the call, without turning it into a public leaderboard.

Numbers you can't take with you aren't really yours. The season summary exports to a CSV (one row per member, the same operational fields) so you can sort it in a spreadsheet, share it with a co-organizer, or just keep your own records. Two deliberate choices: skill ratings never appear in the export (an exported spreadsheet of who's "good" circulating in a group chat is a community-poisoner), and the export keeps working even if the group is frozen, so your history is never held hostage.

Attendance is one signal among several, and the point of a dashboard is to put them in one place. The group dashboard collects money collected, attendance, active no-show flags, join requests waiting on you, and how your membership is growing: the state of your group at a glance, so the standing-spot decision sits next to everything else you'd weigh. And when something needs saying to all of it at once (the field flooded, kickoff moved), a one-way announcement reaches every active member without you copy-pasting into a chat that only half of them read.