How to set up playoff brackets

A division’s Playoffs tab, on the planner’s Divisionen page, shows its brackets. The main bracket follows the division’s playoff settings: how many teams go through, the bracket type, bronze medal matches and tiers (see how to set up playoffs). Here you change who plays in a match, and add brackets and round robins for the other places.

Before you start

• You need to manage the event, its divisions or its schedule.
• If the playoffs are locked, unlock them first. See how to lock parts of your event.

See the brackets

1. In your event’s planner, click Divisionen in the sidebar. With several divisions, select the division’s tab at the top.

   

2. Open the Playoffs tab. With playoff tiers, each tier has its own brackets.

   

3. Each match shows its number and where its teams come from, such as a place in the standings or the winner of another match. A match with no game on the schedule yet reads Ungeplant. Click a match to change who plays in it, as in the steps below.

   

Add a consolation bracket

A consolation bracket is a knockout bracket for teams out of the main one, such as its quarter-final losers playing for 5th place.

1. Click Trost-Bracket hinzufügen.

   

2. Enter the Bracket-Name and the Anzahl der Teams, then the best place the bracket decides under Zielplatz (z.B. 5 für 5. Platz).

   

3. Click Hinzufügen. The new bracket appears with its first matches empty.

   

4. Click one of its first matches.

   

5. Choose where Team 1 and Team 2 come from: a place in the standings, overall or in a group, or the winner or loser of another match of the same tier. To pick a match on screen instead, click the target icon (Aus Bracket auswählen) beside the field, click the match, then choose Gewinner or Verlierer.

   

6. Click Speichern. Do the same for each of the bracket’s first matches.

   

Add a playoff round robin

In a playoff round robin, a few teams play each other once and a table ranks them into places.

1. Click Platzierungsrunde hinzufügen.

   

2. With one tier, the round robin starts with the teams the main bracket leaves out, if there are any, and the Erster Platz they play for. Its name says which places it decides. Change the Anzahl der Teams or where a team comes from if you need to. The window counts the games and rounds, and warns when a team already plays in another bracket.

   

3. Click Platzierungsrunde hinzufügen. Its number of teams can’t change after this: delete it and add it again instead.

   

4. The round robin shows its table and its games, round by round. Bearbeiten on it changes its name, its first place or its teams. A team that has started playing can’t be replaced.

   

How a round robin breaks ties

The table ranks teams with the division’s standings criteria, in the order set in the event’s settings (see how to set up standings). Teams still level on every criterion share a place. Once the round robin is over, a note under its table says so. Click Reihenfolge festlegen, put the teams in the order your event decided, best first, with the arrows, and click Speichern. Platz teilen puts them back level.

Ordering a tie needs permission to manage results, and works while the playoffs are locked.

Delete a bracket or start again

• To delete a bracket you added, click the bin (Löschen) beside its name, or Löschen on a round robin, then Ok. Its games on the schedule become breaks. The main bracket can’t be deleted.