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Draw Type (Round Robin or Knockout) Indicates the type of draw that needs to be generated. Round Robin is where competing teams play each other over a series of rounds throughout a season with generally a finals series involving the highest ranked teams. A Knockout draw is a typical tournament situation where the winning team in a match progresses to the next round while the loser drops out until a winner is found. Selecting the draw type will fill the Fixture Type drop down list with fixture templates that are of that draw type and disable some input fields.
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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 limited venue slots"
For knockout fixtures seeding becomes more important and would be used to seed higher ranked players in the draw so that they don't meet each other until later on in the tournament.
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