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The type of draw that needs to be generated, either:

• Round Robin - where competing teams play each other over a series of rounds throughout a season, typically with a finals series involving the highest ranked teams.
• Knockout - a typical tournament situation where the winning team in a match progresses to the next round while the losing team 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 depending on the selection.

The season in which the draw is to be created.

A season is a way of designating a competition to a time period that ultimately ends up in a finals series and winner.

There can be several seasons set up for each calendar year.  By default, two seasons for each year are created:

• A Crossover Season i.e. 2015/2016, that is any competition running from within the dates 1 Jul* and 30 June.
• A Calendar Season i.e. 2016, that is any season running within the dates 1 January* to 31 December. 
  *These are typical start dates only, and do not affect when matches are actually played.
  
  

When a season is selected, the Draw Creator wizard estimates the season start date and non-playing periods.

The grade for which the draw is to be created. Only grades with teams allocated for the current season will be displayed.

The grade designates a group of competing teams. Grades can also be referred to as leagues, divisions or competitions within different sports).

Multiple grades or a single grade can be selected. When selecting multiple grades (including possibly grades with different teams), a fixture is created for each grade according to the settings defined.

Where multiple grades have been selected, the Manually edit/enter matches option (see below) is disabled and you will not be able to change Draw Seeds in this process. Draw Seeds and other settings can be set up via Team Settings.

Select the fixture template to use for creating the draw, from a list of fixture templates available for the selected Draw Type.
If your organisation has their own fixtures template, a request can be submitted to have it uploaded and made available for future selection.

The default match type for matches within this draw.

On the Round Settings page, you will have the opportunity to change the match type for a given round of matches and when the draw has been created, you will be able to change the match type for a given match via the Edit

page.

This is the date the draw creator will use for the start of the fixture. The time of the matches may be adjusted in either of the two scenarios:
1) If the home team for a given match has a default start time set as in the Team Settings page then this is used as the time of the match.
2) If no start time as set above, but if the grade has a default start time as set in the

Edit

page, then that will be used as the time for the match.

When using "Fixture Slot" mode, the time

of the match is set according to the first available fixture slot as defined in the Grade

Season Settings screen or the default as configured in the Venue Selection page

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This is the number of rounds you would like to create for this draw.

The maximum number of rounds that can be created is 30, but if you require more then contact support. For knockout draw types the number of rounds entry is disabled and set automatically.

To create Finals matches only set this value to "0"

If you would like to start the round numbering from a number greater than 1 enter the value here. This allows you to create partial fixtures. For instance you may create round 1-3 and then later on create rounds 4-10 and when doing so you will set the Start from Round value to 4.

This is the amount of time in days, hours, minutes to leave between rounds in the fixture. Usually this value is left at 7 days which indicates that once a week a round of matches are played. However for some tournaments or events matches may be played once or several times a day. This value is used to create the round dates and times which you'll be able to change in the Round Dates page.

Venue allocation method

Select from either:

• Home and Away - This is the most common way of allocating venues for matches where each team in the grade plays at their home venue if they are the home team. These can be set up via Team Settings. 
• Fixture Slots - Select this where sports are run out of a fixed venue or venue(s) - often indoor sports such as basketball, volleyball, futsal, etc. The user can specify certain Fixture Slots (i.e. a Match Start Time and Venue/Court combination) that the fixture creation process will use to choose the venue and match start time.

Publish draw to public on completion

This specifies whether to publish the draw when the draw is finalised and submitted.
An unpublished draw is not visible on public web sites and only visible to admin users for the organisation that created the draw. This allows it to be fine-tuned before allowing people to see it.

Manually enter/edit matches

If this is checked the user will be taken to the Manual Draw Edit screen before proceeding to the Review/Submit screen. The user can always go back to this screen from the Review screen before the draw is submitted even if this box is not checked. This option is not available if you have selected multiple grades.