If have the option to add the tournament tool to your league, this way, you can create a bracket connected to your league division already with your teams and players. To turn this tool on, you have to contact CompuSport directly ([email protected]) Let us know which events needs these extra tools.
There is an additional charge, same charges as tournaments : $1 per player per bracket, cap at $3 per player.
Once the tool is added:
Create your Brackets
Go to Brackets (Menu > Manage > Brackets | Round-Robin > Brackets)
1. Click on Plus to add a Bracket,
2. Choose the Division you want to associate to the Bracket,
3. Choose a bracket format: ex: Double Elimination 8, Double Elimination 16, etc.
4. Save.
*Repeat for all the divisions.
*** Click on your bracket, pencil to edit. Go to Score Input and repeat your same settings from league from Round-Robin.
How to shuffle my league final bracket (Playoffs)
Here is an example of a league that wants to bring the 6 tops teams of a league division into a league final bracket.
Using the Fill Up Brackets & RRB (Tool to shuffle the teams into the bracket)
Menu > Manage > Brackets/Round-Robin > Fill Up Bracket and RRB
- Choose the division you want to shuffle. (only shuffle 1 at a time if you don't want them to be mixed up together)
- Choose the Method you want to use to shuffle. In this example it is High vs Low. High vs low will give the high ranked teams the byes. 6 teams going into a single 8 elimination.
- Choose your Sort by, in this example seeding them by the Rank information (Make sure they are properly ranked based on the Stat Model Editor Ranking parameters)
- Review the ranking
- This this example we are unchecking the two bottoms teams as only the 6 tops teams move on.
- Click on Try Shuffle,
- Review the bracket lay out to make sure the seeding is how you wanted it.
- If it's good, click on Accept Results.
If you want the two bottom teams to play a match against each other, but it's not in the bracket. You can create individual matches in the calendar by clicking the plus. This will want to create matches in the league division.
You can arrange to have stats go together if necessary by creating a Stats/Standing Grouping group.
Scheduling Your Tournament
The scheduling part of the set up depends on what type of scheduling you will be using.
You can also choose to do it manually under Menu > Manage > Schedules/Charts > Charts.
Choose division.
Click in the middle of a match > Option button.
Edit Schedule.
You can tell them at what time and what surface.
How to Set Up the Continuous Play tool
What is "Assigned times and surfaces"?
Brackets public