This screen allows you to set up the divisions that you will use in your season, and assign teams into them.
These are a blank canvas each season. You can restructure to your hearts content between seasons, as you need to assign the teams at the start of every season. There is no automation in terms of promotion or relegation, so you have ultimate flexibility every step of the way.
If this is your first season, you will have no divisions set up, and a whole list of unassigned teams. If you already have some divisions created, they will appear here for you to use. If you have a long list, use the filter to narrow the list down.
Add Division
Pressing the green + button will allow you to create a division. If the relevant setting is enabled, this will also allow you to determine which day of the week this division is played on.
When created, you can press the Use button in order to select it as a division to be used for the season.
When the division is selected, you get all your options based around the structure of the division.
Green Up/Down – These will move the divisions “ranking” up and down compared to the other divisions. This affects the sequencing of the divisions throughout the website. You want “Premier League” ao appear above “Division 1” for example.
Add Bye – This will add a “Bye” team into the division to help with your drafting process. This is useful if you want to have a Bye in position 5. Otherwise it will add byes to round up to an even numebr in the next step.
Red Remove – This will remove the division from being used for the season.
Match Format (If Match Format Per Division is enabled) - The match format that will be used for this division. For more information, click here.
League Table Profiles - This is where you determine how your league table is configured in terms or points awarded, sort orders, bonus points etc. More information can be found here.
Promote/Relegate – The position in the league table that will show the lines to indicate who is going up and who is going down
Play Each (If Play Each Team Differs Per Division) - Determines how many times each team will play each other duering the course of the season
Division Sponsor - Give you the ability to pick a sponsor for the division, and for their logo to appear on the fixtures, results, rankings and league table pages of the website and the app.
Repeat the process for all divisions.
/Note: If you have an odd number of teams in your division and you offer the possibility for a team to join mid-season/after it has started, you should insert a Bye team to your division. This is so that you can convert this to a proper team if the eventuality calls for it.
To assign teams into Divisions, simply use the dcheck boxes next to the unassigned team and choose a division. This will add the selected teams to the division.
Repeating that process until all teams are assigned a division. If you make a mistake, you can or remove the team with the red button.
The number of the team/the position in the division list is very important. The system uses these to avoid table clashes with teams that share a table.
Assuming your divisions are of equal size, the system will flag these table clashes, and make suggestions to you on the positions the teams could be moved to.
You can drag and drop the teams into position using the grey handle to the left of the team number to make the clash go away
Above each division is a method to avoid the clashes. It advises that any teams that share a table shluld be paired together. This also applies across divisions.
The system has a mechanism to prevent table clashes for divisions of the same size, but also of a differing size as long as its only by 2. So divisions of 10 and 12, Divisions of 12 and 14, etc.
It will need to have byes added if you have an odd number of teams.
It requires each "half" of fixtures start at the same time. So if a division of 10 has 9 matchdays in the first half, and a division of 12 has 11 matchdays, matchday 10 and 11 will be a break for the division of 10.
If you have a lot of table shares (or only 1 or two, it'll still work) the Resolve Clashes button will number all your teams to avoid them.
It makes a best effot attempt to do it, but mathematically in league where there are mostly shared tables, spready adcross divisions, and of different sizes, it can't be guaranteed to avoid them.
If that is the case for you, please get in touch at [email protected]
When your season is running, you may need to change things like the promotion/relegation lines, amtch format etc. You can do this in the Divisions tab in the same way as pre season.
Once your season is started, you may want to convert one of your existing Bye’s into a real team to help fill your division. If you access the Season: Divisions screen when your season is underway, you will find where your Bye’s appear are also a button.
Pressing this will do the following.
Rename the bye to {Division name} Bye
Update all fixtures for the Bye with the new name
If you chose to “Delete Byes” as part of your season wizard, it will recreate them for you
Create a new “Team” record, and link the new Seasonal Team to that Team
Create a Player record for {Division Name} Bye Captain and set them to be the captain and vice captain.
You can then edit the captain to be the real captain, invite them to create an account and add the players using the usual tools available.