Feature
In-Season Tournament Mode
Add optional tournaments to an active league season without creating a second competition system. Select teams already in the season, choose single elimination, double elimination, or a manually arranged bracket, schedule each matchup, score games live, and publish tournament results separately from regular standings.
Simple Setup
How It Works
Create an In-Season Tournament
Open an active season and add one or more optional tournaments. Each tournament has its own name, dates, status, field, bracket, games, and public results.
Choose Teams and Seeds
Select teams already assigned to the season and set their tournament seed order. Tournament seeding stays independent from the regular-season standings table.
Build and Schedule the Bracket
Choose single elimination, double elimination, or a manually arranged bracket. Add an optional third-place game, then assign dates, times, and venues to the matchups.
Score and Publish Results
Use the same live-scoring workflow as regular games and playoffs. Final scores advance winners through the bracket, and the public tournament page shows the field, schedule, bracket, and completed results.
Capabilities
What You Can Do
Single, Double, or Manual Brackets
Use single elimination, double elimination, or manually arrange the opening matchups. The same bracket engine powers season playoffs and tournament stages.
Season-Team Tournament Fields
Build each tournament from teams already assigned to the active season. Set and adjust tournament-specific seeds without changing the teams or rankings used elsewhere in the season.
Tournament Game Scheduling
Turn bracket matchups into scheduled games with dates, times, and venues. Tournament games appear in the appropriate admin, scorekeeper, calendar, and public schedule workflows.
Live Scoring and Advancement
Score tournament games from the existing live console. When a matchup is final, the winner advances to the correct next-round slot and the bracket records the result.
Separate Competition Results
Tournament results stay separate from regular-season standings and season stat snapshots. Organizers can still include tournament games when they intentionally choose a combined game or stat view.
Public Tournament Pages
Publish a dedicated tournament page with the participating teams, schedule, bracket, and results. Draft tournament games remain private until the organizer publishes the tournament.
Built For
Who Uses This Feature
League Administrators
Add a midseason cup, invitational, or other bracket event to an active season without rebuilding teams, accounts, schedules, or public pages in a separate product.
Coaches and Teams
Check scheduled tournament games and follow each completed matchup through the bracket using the same league website and game-day workflow they already know.
Players and Fans
Open the public tournament page from any browser to see the field, upcoming games, completed scores, and the path to the championship without needing an account.
Related Feature Pages
Compare adjacent workflows before finalizing your league operations stack.
Frequently Asked Questions
What tournament formats are available?
Tournament Mode supports single elimination, double elimination, and manually arranged brackets. Organizers can also add an optional third-place game. Pool play and round-robin tournament stages are not part of the current release.
Can I run more than one tournament in a season?
Yes. An active season can contain multiple tournaments, each with its own field, seed order, bracket, schedule, lifecycle, and public results page.
Do tournament games change regular-season standings?
No. Tournament games and player stat rows are scoped separately from regular-season standings and season stat snapshots. Combined views can include them when an organizer intentionally selects all games.
Does the bracket handle byes for uneven team counts?
Yes. Single-elimination brackets place structural byes when the field is not a power of two. Those byes advance the appropriate seeds without being counted as played tournament games or results.
Can I use this for a multi-day tournament with scheduled times?
Yes. Assign dates, times, and venues to tournament matchups and run the bracket over one day or several days using the existing scheduling and scorekeeper workflows.
Can teams register for a standalone tournament without joining a season?
The current Tournament Mode is designed for tournaments inside an active league season and uses teams already assigned to that season. Standalone tournament registration and outside-team entry are not part of this release.
Ready to put this workflow into practice?
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