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- The most common scenario is that every team plays once per weekend and that the desirable outcome is that every team plays every other team at least one time. The default value for one 'round' of games is therefore seven days, typically Saturday-Friday.
- If there are 8 teams in a division, it will use no more than 4 slots in any 4-day period. The round length can be set to 1 day in the event that teams play more than once in a weekend (or any two-day period), or 0 days if teams play more than once per day.
- If any rounds have been specified in the game scheduler for the selected division and competition, then the matchmaker will only use those rounds: it will not try and generate new ones. You may elect to have the matchmaker generate all the rounds for you, ort to or manually designate all of the rounds for the season or the portion of the season that you are scheduling.
- If no rounds have been specified, the matchmaker will automatically assign rounds based on the start date, the number of rounds requested, and the round length. It will register a warning if either of two conditions are true:
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- If either of the above conditions are true, the matchmaker will still generate a partial schedule.
- Teams will be assigned slots at different times each week so that no team plays in the same time slot more than once to the extent made possible by the available slots.
- If you have an odd number of teams, the Matchmaker will automatically schedule a Bye each week. You may specify whether you prefer Byes to be the first or last slot of the day.
- If you have more weeks in the season than you need for every team in a division to play every other team, run the matchmaker twice: if you have N teams, run it first for the first N-1 weeks of the season, and then run it again for the remainder of the season, and it will start matching every team against every other team again and get as far as it can.
- The 'Balance Home & Away' option will attempt to evenly distribute the number of home and away games that each team receives within the specified time frame.
- Once you click 'Assign Match-ups,' the match-ups are saved in the system -- if you don't want to keep them, be sure to click the cancel button!
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