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Generate a Schedule
To generate a draft of your scheduleThe system will now direct you to the Scheduler tab, allowing you to generate your schedule. To do this, click on +Createin the top right-hand corner. Then click on Generate Schedule.
The system will then present you with three options for creating your schedule:
Generate a schedule (automatically), which allows you to automatically generate your schedule in draft mode.
Import a file, this option allows you to import a CSV file to create your schedule, see documentation, Generate your schedule with a CSV file.
Add draft game, this option lets you add individual draft games to your schedule.
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Matchups
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In the matchups stage, you define the method by which the teams in your schedule will compete against each other. When you select the Generate a schedule option, a window will appear in which you can specify the confrontation parameters.
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If your schedule is made up of groups, you must select the group for which you want to create the schedule. If you don't have a group for this schedule, select No group. If no groups have been created in your league or office, you will not need to make this selection. |
The total number of teams for your schedule will be shown.
Method
The method essentially determines how many games will be produced.
Games per Team This will produce enough matchups to satisfy a minimum number of games for each team. Odd numbers of teams with an odd number of games per team is not supported.
Total Rounds This produces matchups up until the specified number of rounds.
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The scheduler will produce a number of matchups between each team pair and in the second step a matrix will be provided allowing you to tweak matchups as you wish.
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Note: that unlike the Single and Double Rotation schedulers, this method does not always produce consistent results for the same inputs, so it is possible to run it multiple times to produce varying results in some cases. |
When using the matrix table, totals are show for the number of games each team has, and the total will be highlighted if the total does not match your configuration.
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Distribution Mode decides an important decision that most people may not realize is necessary: is it Friday and Saturday of the same consecutive week, or is it rotating Friday the first week then Saturday the next week?.
Rotating means that each round is a week
Consecutive means that there may be multiple rounds in a week.
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Dates The start date defaults to the schedule’s start date, so why is this here?.
Leagues may produce schedules in multiple stages so that they can run a set of rounds then decide to rebalancing teams between groups before running another set of rounds, for example.
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