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A fixture type defines a template used for creating a draw of matches according to the defined pattern. To view the pattern or fixture template that will be followed for a given Fixture Type you can click on the "More Information" link next to the Fixture Type drop down box
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 A fixture template will be defined for differing numbers of teams within a grade, i.e. 8 Team Grade, 10 Team Grade etc. The draw creator will choose the correct template automatically based on the number of teams in the grade (teams with an odd number of teams and hence a BYE will be rounded up to the next even number). If the grade does not have the correct number of teams for the selected fixture template then the error below will be displayed: 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 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. |
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- Standard weekly fixture (round robin)
- Standard tournament (knockout)
- Tournament with group phase (grade pools)
- Multiple grades at one time
- Grades with the same teams and fixtures
- Grades with the same teams but reverse fixtures
- Grades with multiple team entries form from the same organisation
- Fixtures with venueground venue/ground shares
- Custom fixture templates
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This is also a common competition format and is typical of where the basic fixtures will be the same but for one of the grades the home and away teams will be reversed . This is where for one or more selected grades.
For example, the Seniors may play at home in a given round and the Reserves play away in the same round to avoid a venue clash.
To create these draws the Copy Draw function must be used with the Reserve Reverse option selected for the draws to be copied. Please see the help page for Copy Draw.
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Occasionally a grade will need to contain two teams from the same organisation (club). In this case, there needs to be a way to distinguish these teams wherever the draw, match or ladder is displayed. This is achieved by using the options in the Team Settings page to designate different display and media names for the teams.
Adding multiple teams from the same organisation is easy and is done via the "Allocate Teams to Grade" screen screen. On the left hand side for of the screen will be , a list of organisations that can add teams to the grade is displayed. Simply add the same organisation as many times as required.
When this happens adding the same organisation name, a message will be displayed at the bottom of the screen as follows:
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You will then be required to change the Team (Display) Name and Team Media Name in the Team Settings page so that the teams from the same organisation have different names. Otherwise on saving this screen you will see the error message below, on Update, the following error message will display:
In the example below there are two teams in this grade entered from Hampton and the user has named them "Hampton Blue" and "Hampton Black". The name can be whatever you like as long as they are different.Team (Display) names must be unique.
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Where you have teams in the same grade or across multiple grades that share a home venue, you therefore need to ensure that they are alternating match by match as either the home or away team to avoid scheduling at the same venue at the same time.
The Draw Creator can accommodate this via its a built-in Fixture Type of "Enhanced Round Robin". See Draw Creator - Concepts - Fixtures TypesTemplates for . See Fixture Templates above for more information on this.
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- Select the teams that are in the grade(s) via the "Allocate Teams to Grade" screen screen.
- Go to the "Team Settings" page screen and define a default home ground for each of the teams (also set the default start time for teams that require it, and set the Draw Seed if you need to control the order of matches).
- Start the Draw Creator and select "Round Robin" as as the Draw Type and select a fixture template from the Fixture Type drop down dropdown box (Enhanced Round Robin will suffice for most situations).
Click on the :More information" link link next to the fixture type drop down dropdown box and select the "Enhanced Round Robin" fixture fixture type. Take note of the "Pairs" table for each team entry situation. - Set the Venue Allocation method to "Use default home grounds".
- Set other settings as required ont on he Start page and pages that follow.
- Submit the draw and you are done.
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This is similar to topic one Standard weekly fixture (round robin)or or Standard tournament (knockout) but it is where you want to use your own custom fixture template to create the draw.
Simply contact Support support requesting the uploading of your template and then the next time you create a draw it will be listed in the Fixture Type list as either a Round Robin or Knockout type.