A season is a way of designating a competition to a time period which 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 Shoulder Season i.e. 2015/2016, that is any competition running from within the dates July 1 and June 30
- A Calendar Season i.e. 2016, that is any season running within the dates January 1 to December 31.
This page allows you to configure seasons and initiate a competition:
- Set current season as default filter for all pages within own organisation or child affiliates.
- Create and manage list of seasons.
- Data rollover to save time in establishing grades, draws, ladder, team settings, etc.
Set to New season
- Select the season - the list is restricted to the season(s) that are in progress, and seasons from up to a year ago.
- Click Update.
At some point before the commencement of the first round (preferably about a month before), the Association should also set the current season for all affiliated Clubs. This is done by clicking the Set Current button. The normal course of events is for the Association to set is own season, carry out team setup, draw creation etc, and then to set the Clubs' current seasons. This is to avoid setting the Club season too early where no matches have been set up yet. |
- Setting current season for child organisations only applies if the current organisation is an Association (i.e. this function does not apply to Clubs)
- Seasons normally last for a year, and span either the calendar year (eg 2016) which are deemed to start on 1 January, or a crossover of years (eg 2016/2017) which are deemed to start on 1 July.
Note that these are nominal start dates only, and do not affect when matches are actually played.
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Season List
This section allows past seasons to be added to the Association so that historical data (e.g. fixtures) can be entered.
- To add a season, select Add season, select the new season and click the Add button. If the season has already been added it is not added again. Seasons that have already commenced cannot be added here. The Current Season tab must be used for this.
- To remove a season, click the Delete link next to the season. Seasons cannot be removed once matches have been created within that season.
Data Rollover
This section enables system administrator options to copy partial or the entire season/competition settings from previous a season across to another (later) season.
Data that can be rolled over includes grade, draw, teams or fixture slots, etc.
