Run a game day

What a scorekeeper does before, during and after a game day: check the schedule, mark the day live, score each game, handle a postponement, and close the day.

Updated · In the admin: Game days

A game day is a date at a venue with its games scheduled into it. Owners and admins build the schedule; the scorekeeper runs the day. Everything below happens under Manage › Game days and Manage › Schedule & scores.

The day before

  1. Open Manage › Game days and check the day's Date, Venue, Doors / first tip and Ends. Edit them if the gym changed its hours.
  2. Open Schedule & scores, filter by the game day, and check that every game has both teams, a tip-off time and a court.
  3. If the league streams games, paste the Live stream link on the game day. The public game day shows a Watch button.
  4. Upload a Printable schedule (PDF) on the game day if the league prints one for the door.

At the gym

  1. Set the game day's Status to live. The public site marks the day as in progress.
  2. For each game, open its Score sheet at tip-off and press Start game (live). Enter period scores and player lines as you go, and Save as final when it ends. See the score-a-game guide for the sheet itself.
  3. If a game is moved to another court or time on the day, edit the game's Court and Tip-off so the public schedule stays right.

Postponements and cancellations

  • A game that will be replayed: set its Status to postponed. It stays listed with that label and out of the standings. An admin gives it a new date later.
  • A game that will not be played: set its Status to cancelled.
  • A whole day lost to weather: set the game day's Status to cancelled. Its games keep their own statuses, so mark them postponed or cancelled as well.

After the last game

  1. Check Schedule & scores with the Scores owed filter: it lists past games with no final score. Everything from today should be gone from it.
  2. Set the game day's Status to completed.
  3. Tell the admin about anything that needs a roster change: a player who played but was not listed, a jersey number that changed.

Standings, player pages and the leaders board are already up to date; nothing needs to be published.

Questions

What can a scorekeeper change?

Game days, games and score sheets. A scorekeeper cannot edit teams, players, pages or payments; ask an admin for roster changes.

A team did not show up. What do I do?

Score the game as a forfeit the way your league's rules say, for example 20 to 0 to the team that showed, with every player left at 0, and save it as final. If the league replays no-shows instead, set the game to postponed.

Try it on a sample league

A seven-day test drive comes with a season already loaded, so you can follow this guide click for click.

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