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- automatically assign teams to matches according to certain competition formats (Fixture Types).
- calculate the dates and assign venues to matches.
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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 that you'll be able to change in the Round 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 that you'll be able to change in the Round Date page. |
Match Type | Sets the match type for the given round. See 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". This option indicates that for finals matches in this round, the venue is set to the Home team venue of the 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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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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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
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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.