NOTE: To create a schedule for a season, Teams, Divisions, and Locations need to be created first.
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 to setting up the schedule is to make sure there are locations available for games to take place.
In the upper-right corner of the Schedule section, click the three-dot icon, then Add Location.
If no locations have been added yet, you will be shown a blue Add Locations button in the center of the page to select.
Choose the needed locations from the dropdown.
If you do not see the needed locations or have not yet created any locations, click the blue Add Location text to be directed to the Locations page of Season Management.
Once finished making selections, click Add Location.
Adding Time Slots
Once game venues have been established, 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.
To add another time slot for the same selected locations, days, and dates, click Add Another Time Slot.
Click All Done.
Creating Scheduling Rules
Scheduling Rules allow admins to ensure all games are standardized lengths and to rule out any 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. For example, holidays or days when facilities are closed for private events.
Select any locations to apply venue restrictions to and click All Done when complete.
Generating Matchups
With scheduling rules in place, matchups between teams of a given division can be generated to later apply 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.
Generated games will now display for each of the selected teams. To lock in any specific matchups, click the lock icon.
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.