Your season calendar is the timeline in which your season operates. It needs to account for league match weeks, and potential breaks for bank holidays, major sporting events or even to allocate a day to play a competition round.
This is the stage at which you plug that information in. Usually, you will have an idea of what your calendar looks like before you get here.
We support different calendars per league day, and also a secondary calendar so you can operate entirely different structures.
The screen is in 3 sections. The generator will allow you to configure what dates it needs to generate for you. The information gives you realtime stats about the dates it will create to ensure it aligns with your expectations. Then the calendars at the bottom are the actual generated content.
The system will use what you put into this section to generate your dates, based upon the number of teams in your divisions and various other properties.
Start Date - The start date of your season. The first league match week that will be played
Days Played - The day(s) your league is played on. If you are using Multi-League it will override these and always use one week per day. However if you are using a single calendar, you could have matches on Tuesdays and Thursdays if you had an "express" style season
Play Each Team - How many times each team plays each other during the season
Play Every - Shoose the number of weeks or months between fixtures. Mostly this will be every week, but for itnerleague or county type matches they may be spread further apart
Secondary Calendar - Check this box if you have different calendars for different divisions. You will choose which divisions use the secondary calendar.
Press Generate Dates to generate the calendar for you.
With the dates suggested to you, you can start reviewing them to check they are going to work.
If you click the Edit button, you can alter the date and type of this calendar week.
Date editor
Match is used for league matches. This is utilised by this wizard. You must always have enough Match dates to fulfil your fixtures.
Break is a week that has no matches. This is used by some leagues to denote the deliberate fact that there is no match to be played ad is not a mistake.
Event can be used to highlight a Finals Day or presentation night
Competition allows you to reserve a night for a round of a Competition.
Whenever you edit a week or insert a date that conflicts with a current league night, it will auto repopulate your league weeks based upon your new parameters. In other words, there is no real need to shuffle the league weeks.
If you spot a week that you know you need to make a break for, which is the most common, press the make break button. This will automatically create a new match date extending the season for you.
Make a Break
You can Add Date to insert your presentation night or finals day, and if you get all muddle up, just press Regenerate Dates and it will set them all back to the start again.
When your calendar is completed, press Next at the bottom of the screen.
If your league operates on multiple nights, as in some divisions on a Tuesday and some on a Wednesday for example, then the calendar will have a column for each league night on which you play.
All other calendar operations behave as normal.
If you have divisions of differing sizes you may wish to utilise a secondary calendar. This will allow different divisions to run on entirely different schedules, perhaps allowing for more competition or bye weeks for smaller divisions.
Check the box to Enable Secondary Calendar and select the divisions that will use it. Press “Generate Dates” again to reload the calendars. You will then see an additional calendar for each league day you play on.