Generating matches for a league

After adding teams to a league, the option to generate the league matches will become available.

From the home page, click the Leagues tab.

Select the correct season from the dropdown menu to check what leagues exist already.

Click the Generate button.

The Generate League page has several key features.

The league generator first attempts to maximise the number of rounds and matches for the league. You can instead select a specific Number of Rounds. The word Loop describes a Number of Rounds where all teams play each other an equal number of times.

Each row shows a date with Matches:

All matches are seen on this table, including potential conflicts with existing bookings on the diary.

The first action to take on this page once the red conflict bookings have been resolved is to click the Improve Rink Balance button at the bottom of the page.

This makes Bowlr run dozens more calculations to attempt to improve the rink balance. The system keeps the best result of all the calculations and the page refreshes to show the best result.

Sometimes, a better result can't be achieved, or it may take many attempts due to mathematical probabilities.

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When a satisfactory result is achieved, scroll to the bottom and click Write matches to diary to proceed to complete the matches/fixtures part of creating league.

Busy clubs recommend the league secretary gets all league matches into the diary first, which frees up other club organizers to use the diary. The league secretary is then under less pressure to finish inputting all of the team captains and team members and distribute league prints etc.