NOTE: Teams, Divisions, and Locations must be created first to create a schedule for a season.
The preferred flow for generating a schedule includes the following steps:
Adding Locations
Adding Time Slots
Creating Scheduling Rules
Generating Matchups
Autoschedule
First, navigate to the season's Schedule Assistant:
From HQ, click Competition > Season Management.
Within the correct season, click Schedule.
In the upper-right corner of the Schedule section, click the three-dot icon, then Scheduling Assistant.
Adding Locations
The first step in setting up the schedule is to ensure available locations.
In the upper-right corner of the Schedule section, click the three-dot icon, then Add Location.
If this is your organization's first location, click Add Location in the center of the page.
Choose the needed locations from the dropdown.
If you do not see the needed locations or have not yet created any, click the blue Add Location text to be directed to Season Management's Locations page.
Once finished making selections, click Add Location.
Adding Time Slots
Once you've added game venues, create the time slots to indicate when the locations are available to host games.
In the upper-right corner of the Schedule section, click the three-dot icon, then Add Time Slots.
Fill out the required information for the time slot details.
Click Add Another Time Slot to add another time slot for the same selected locations, days, and dates.
Click All Done.
Creating Scheduling Rules
Scheduling Rules allow admins to ensure all games are standardized lengths and to rule out scheduling conflicts with dates and locations. For more on the types of scheduling rules, click here.
In the upper-right corner of the Schedule section, click the three-dot icon, then Scheduling Rules.
Select the division to create rules for.
Complete the game length and time rules, then click Next.
Select any Blackout Dates and click Next.
Blackout days are specific dates you wish to exclude from the schedule, such as holidays or days when facilities are closed for private events.
Select any locations to apply venue restrictions and click All Done when complete.
Generating Matchups
With scheduling rules in place, matchups between teams in a given division can be generated and later applied to the created time slots.
In the upper-right corner of the Schedule section, click the three-dot icon, then Generate Games.
Select the Division.
Enter the number of games per team.
Use the checkboxes to indicate which teams in the selected division to include.
Click Generate Games.
The system will now display generated games for each of the selected teams. Click the lock icon to lock in any specific matchups.
Click Save All Games.
Autoschedule
Automatically assign matchups to created time slots to create a complete schedule that adheres to schedule rules.
From the left side of the scheduling assistant, select the division to schedule for.
Created matchups will display below the division name.
At the bottom of the matchup list, click Autoschedule.