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- automatically assign teams to matches according to certain competition formats or "(Fixture Types").
- calculate the dates and assign venues to matches.
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Fixture Types/Templates
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The most common pattern to follow in team based fixtures is a simple round robin or what's called a "Standard Round Robin" fixture template within the Draw Creator. This is basically where every team plays other teams in the grade once before playing them again and where possible a team alternates between being the home team or away team for each match. The fixture template for this looks like this:
The numbers above will correspond to the seeds of the teams as set in the Draw Creator Seed page or Team Settings page
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In more advanced fixture templates a "Pairs" table may be defined as below for the built in "Enhanced Round Robin" fixture type.
The pairs table defines what pairings of seeds can be used across grades to avoid venue shares. So if Team A and Team B in grades Grade A and Grade B share the same grade Team A could be given seed=1 in Grade A and Team B would be given seed=2 in Grade B and using the Enhanced Round Robin fixture template above the teams would not play at "Home" in the same round number.
For knockout fixtures the fixture template looks like this:
As you can see Seeds 1 & 2 are at the opposite ends of the draw so would meet in the Final if they won all their matches.
If you have your own fixture template that you would like to use you can contact Support and arrange for it to be loaded so that it appears in the "Fixture Type" drop down box on the Start page of the Draw Creator.
Match Types
The match defines properties of the match that may be used in different parts of the system at various times. For instance the following items may be defined as part of different match types:
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The Draw Creator works in a "wizard" style screen layout where, with each subsequent page, you have the option of providing extra detail and customizing customising the resulting fixture to your needs.
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Step 1 - Start Creating Draw
This page allows for the collection of Enter the basic information to start constructing the draw:
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This page allows a refinement of some settings entered in the first page at a round level. The items that can be changed with depend if on whether the sport is a multi-day sport, like cricket
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Number of Match Days | This allows for the number of match days to be set for the given round. It is only displayed for multi-day sports, like cricket. This value is used to create the round dates and times which that you'll be able to change in the Round Dates Date page. |
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Successive Dates | If the sport is a multi-day sport like cricket, then this will indicate that the match days fall on successive days. This value is used to create the round dates and times which that you'll be able to change in the Round Dates Date page. |
Match Type | Sets the match type for the given round. See "Suitable fixture types" Fixture Types. |
Venue Options | When using the Home and Away Venue Allocation method and the round is a finals round, an option will be displayed called "Set venue home team" which will indicate . This option indicates that for finals matches in this round, the venue is set to be the Home team venue of the finals match which is always the team that finished higher Team ending highest on the ladder. Not checking this box will mean that the finals match is not allocated a venue. |
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The Draw Creator calculates the dates for each round of matches according to the settings entered in the first two pagesStep 1 & 2. This page allows those dates to be changed. If the sport is a multi-day sport like cricket, up to 4 match dates per round will be available.
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Step 4 - Venue Selection
This screen allows for settings relevant to the "Fixture Slot" Venue Allocation mode method and is not displayed if the "Home and Away" mode is selected
(See Start Creating Draw).
Venue Allocation Options | Process in Grade Sort Order : Matches
Consider Club Preferences : - This is a future enhancement and is not active at the moment. |
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Default Fixture Slots | These slots will be used for any grades that have no fixture slots setup set up in the Grade Management Season tabSettings screen. |
Default Venues | For any Fixture Slot marked with "Any Venue", the venue to us will come be selected from this list of venues. |
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Step 5 - Seeding Page
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Draw team seedings will determine which teams play each other in a given round over the entire draw. These can also be setup set up in the Team Settings page screen, but a random seed will be set for all those teams that do not have one set before this page is displayed.
For round robin style draws, the seeding can be used to allocate to teams in different grades to accommodate venue shares and avoid venue clashes. See "Create Draw with venue slots"Fixture Slots.
For knockout fixtures, seeding becomes more important and would be used isused to seed higher ranked players in the draw so that they don't meet get drawn to play each other until later on in the tournament.
If you have selected multiple grades on the Start Page then this page is not displayed so seeds . Seeds need to have been set in the Team Settings page.
See "Suitable fixture types" Fixtures.
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Step 6 - Edit Page
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Home Team | The home team for the given match. |
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Away team | The away team for the given match. |
Click here to edit venues | Clicking this link will allow the venues for the matches to be changed, regardless of whether they were set as default home team venues or allocated automatically by the Draw Creator. If any of the Venue Allocation methods were chosen, then the venues are able to be edited by default and the link is hidden. |
Venue | If this displays the text " Default home team venue" , then the default venues for the home team, as set up in the Team Settings page screen, is used. |
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Step 7 - Review/Submit
When this page is first displayed, you are given the option of reviewing the draw before submitting it. If multiple grades have been selected in the Start Page, then the first grade in the list is used to generate the display.
At this stage the draw(s) have not been submitted and you will need to press the Submit button to do this.
If during the review that you need to go back and change information in previous pages, you can click the heading of the page in the wizard progress display header or click the Previous button.
On submitting the draw(s), a check will be made of any venue clashes that may have been created as a result of these draw(s) and a message will be displayed, as below
Clicking on the link in the box above will take you to a screen that allows you to view the venues venue clashes and click on them to allow the venue to be changed for a given match.