Match formats
A match format says how a fixture is played: which games, how long each one is, and how the night adds up to a result. Every league or cup gets one for its sport when you set it up, so you only need this page to change it.
Formats are on the Formats page of the league's or cup's admin panel. A league can use a different format in each division, and a cup in each round.
The quick way
The quick setup asks a few questions in plain words:
- Which game do you play? 501, 8-ball, a set of tennis, or Name your own.
- How long is one game? A single leg (or frame, or set), Best of a number, or First to a number.
- How many games in a match? One for a league of individuals; several for a team night, with a Running order of singles and doubles.
- What is each game worth? Every game counts the same, or Weight some games (make the doubles worth more, say).
Every option
To build one by hand, start from a template or a Blank format, then set:
- Scoring unit: what decides the fixture. Matchups won or Legs won add up the games played in it; Goals, Points, Frames, Sets and Games take a final score.
- Matchup Structure: the games that make up a fixture, each with its Discipline (singles, doubles, triples or team), its game (for example "501" or "Cricket"), how many players each side puts in, how long it is, and the points for a win or a draw. Leave it empty for a sport scored with one final score, like football.
- Player uniqueness: whether a player can appear in more than one game of a night: No restriction, Once per discipline (one singles and one doubles, say) or Once per fixture.
- Lineup submission mode: Per matchup (players picked game by game as the night goes on) or Full fixture (the whole line-up in before the start, revealed to both sides together).
- Require both sides to confirm start before the match begins.
- Allow individual matchups to end in a draw.
- Stat types: which stats are recorded in this format.
Padel options
A padel format also sets what happens At 40–40 (Golden point or Advantage), At 6–6 (Tie-break or Play on (win by 2)), and the Deciding set (a full set, or a championship tie-break to 10 or to 7). See Padel.
Changing a format
A change applies to fixtures that haven't started. Matches already played keep the format they were played under, so old results always read correctly. When a new season follows on from the last one, its formats carry over.