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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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Once you complete this step, draft games will be created and you’ll need to delete them to start over.
You will then be directed to the Scheduler tab. Before working on your schedule, you can make changes in the Teams and Games tabs.
Teams tab
Playing order
If you wish to change the order in which teams face each other, go to the Teams tab and then click in the top right-hand corner.
Modify the facing order as you wish and click Save.
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Note: If you have created groups in your office, you must first select the group for which you wish to change the order and click Save. |
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Important: If you change the order of shifts, you will need to delete any drafts that have been created and generate new drafts. For further information, please refer to the Drafts documentation. |
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Adding teams
It is also possible to add teams to your schedule by clicking on +Add teams or Select teams in the top right-hand corner and following the same procedure as mentioned above in the Select teams documentation.
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Important: if you change the order of the teams, you will need to delete any drafts that have been created and generate new drafts. For further information, please refer to the Drafts documentation. |
Game Tab
Sequences
In this tab, you can add the sequences of your games if you didn't do so in the previous steps. Simply click on Sequences and add your games numbers, following the same procedure mentioned above in the Add a sequence documentation.
Drafts
The list of your draft games will be displayed here, and you can filter your games by field by clicking on the Add filter button. You can also refine your search by entering a schedule start and end date, or by selecting a specific team to view that team's schedule.
In addition, by clicking on the three small dots on the right, you can display games according to the following filters: Group games by stage, by date or by field. Finally, you can export your drafts by clicking on Export. This option allows you to generate your drafts in . CSV format, so you can work on your draft schedule from within your document. If you don't know how to convert a CSV file, please consult the documentation Converting a CSV file to an XLS file.
By selecting games, several options will be displayed for making changes to your draft games. Clicking on Set date will allow you to add or modify the date of your game, while the Clear date option allows you to delete the date of the selected games. It is also possible to change the status of the game(active, rescheduled, modified field, cancelled, postponed and conflict) by selecting Change status.
Finally, if you wish to delete a few draft games or all of them in order to generate a new schedule, simply click on Delete. As mentioned above, if you add a team, delete a team or change the team order, you must delete your draft games in order to generate a new schedule.
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Games
When your schedule is published, it will be displayed in this tab. Several filters will be available to display the schedule the way you want it.
Game number, allows you to search for a game by entering its game number.
Start and end date, allows you to refine your search according to a desired date range.
By clicking on Add filter, the following three options are available:
Team, allows you to select games from a specific team from the drop-down menu.
Field , lets you select games for a specific field from the drop-down menu.
Completed, allows you to filter only those games that have been completed.
By clicking on the three small dots in the top right-hand corner, you can group your games in different ways. For example, you can group them by date, by ground,display more information about the game, display assignments and finally display notifications.
To add a game to your schedule, click on +Add a game.
The calendar icon in the top right-hand corner changes the game list display to calendar view. You will only see the game in this schedule, no other team activities will be displayed.
It is possible for one or more time slots to overlap when games take place at the same time, but on a different pitch.
To return to the list view, simply click on the list icon in the top right-hand corner.
