How to set referee assignment rules

Referee rules guide Asignaciones de árbitros, which puts referees and teams on all your games in one go (see how to assign referees automatically). They live in the Reglas de asignación de árbitros tab of your event’s settings. Saving a rule changes no game: it applies the next time you assign referees automatically. Referees you put on a game yourself don’t have to follow it.

Without any rule, automatic assignment gives each game one referee from your list and one refereeing team, and, unless a rule allows it, never gives anyone it picks two games that start at the same time. Referees and teams you put on a game yourself count too: they aren’t given another game at that time, and their games count toward the rules below. Teams are taken from the game’s division, or from a division that shares its phase of the blueprint and plays with the same ball type. There’s no setting for how many referees a game needs: to add more, put them on the game yourself (see how to put a referee or staff member on a game). Teams referee only when you assign team refs or put a team on a game; to choose which teams, add an Arbitraje de equipos permitidos rule.

Before you start

• You need to manage the event, its schedule or its referees.
• If referees are locked, the rules are locked too. See how to lock parts of your event.

Steps

The steps add an Arbitraje de equipos permitidos rule, so that only the teams you choose referee. Every rule type is added the same way.

1. In your event’s planner, click Configuración at the bottom of the sidebar.

   

2. Open the Reglas de asignación de árbitros tab.

   

3. Under Reglas estrictas, click Agregar regla. For a soft preference instead, use Agregar preferencia under Preferencias suaves.

   

4. Choose Arbitraje de equipos permitidos. The new rule opens.

   

5. Under Equipo, pick the teams that may referee. The summary at the top of the rule says what it does.

   

6. Click Guardar todos los cambios de configuración.

   

To describe your rules in plain words instead, click Generar con IA beside Agregar regla, then review the rules it writes before you save.

Hard rules and soft preferences

• Reglas estrictas must be met. Assignment skips anyone who would break one, and a game nobody can take is left without that referee.
• Preferencias suaves only rank who goes first, and never leave a game without a referee. Each has a weight slider for how much it counts. Four types can be soft preferences: Preferencia de misma cancha, Carga de trabajo equilibrada, Exclusión de árbitro/equipo and Condición personalizada.

In most rules, Aplica a picks who it covers: Todos los árbitros, Solo oficiales (the referees on your list) or Solo equipos. Tipo de Juego keeps it to Solo todos contra todos or Solo playoffs. Where a rule below follows Alcance, División específica covers the games of the divisions you pick, Equipo específico the teams you pick, and Árbitro específico the referees you pick from your list; with none picked, it covers no one. Every rule has a switch to turn it off without deleting it, and a bin to delete it. Click a rule’s title to open or close it.

Máximo arbitraje concurrente

For teams. Sets under Máximo de canchas concurrentes how many games a team can referee at the same time, on different courts. Without it, a team referees one game at a time. A referee from your list always gets one game at a time.

Máximo de asignaciones consecutivas

Limits how many time slots in a row a referee or team works, to the number under Partidos consecutivos máximos (3 if you leave it empty). Sitting out one time slot, a break on the schedule included, or starting a new day begins the count again; the minutes between games don’t matter. A team that plays in between has sat out too. Games you put them on yourself count. Follows Alcance.

Arbitraje de equipos permitidos

Only the teams you pick under Equipo referee. Without it, any team can.

División arbitra su división

Teams only referee games of the division they play in. A game with no free team in its own division gets no team referee rather than one from another division.

Asignación de división

The teams you pick under Equipos only referee games of the divisions under Divisiones permitidas. While this rule is on, the teams it doesn’t list can be given games in any division too.

Grupo arbitra grupo

For divisions split into groups. Under Cómo se emparejan los grupos:

• Cada grupo arbitra los grupos que yo elija: for each group you list, pick under Puede arbitrar the groups its teams may referee. Groups you don’t list are left free.
• Un conjunto de grupos que solo se arbitran entre sí: the teams of the groups you pick only referee those groups’ games. Impedir también que cualquier otro grupo arbitre los partidos de estos grupos also keeps every other team off them.

Only group play is affected: playoff games belong to no group.

No puede arbitrar después de una derrota

For playoffs. The loser of a game never referees the next game of the team that beat it. When the loser of the previous game on the court would, automatic assignment gives the game to a team already knocked out, or to a seed that isn’t playing, instead. Round robin games aren’t affected.

Follows Alcance, but which team fills a playoff place isn’t known yet when referees are assigned, so only Global (Todos) and División específica do anything here.

No puede arbitrar un partido antes de jugar

For teams. A team doesn’t referee a round robin game of the team it plays next, nor a playoff game whose winner or loser it may play next, such as a seed with a bye refereeing the game that decides its opponent. Automatic assignment gives the game to another team or place instead.

Follows Alcance. On playoff places, only Global (Todos) and División específica apply, for the same reason as above.

Exclusión de árbitro/equipo

Keeps a referee or a team off the games of the teams you pick. Set Alcance to Árbitro específico or Equipo específico and pick who, then list under Equipos excluidos the teams they shouldn’t referee.

Bloqueo de árbitro

Keeps referees off games that start during a time window: pick a Día or Todos los días, then a Hora de inicio and an Hora de finalización. A day without times blocks that whole day. To block one referee or one team, set Alcance to Árbitro específico or Equipo específico and pick them.

Certificación de tipo de balón

Gives a referee from your list only the games of divisions that play with one of their Tipos de Balón (see how to add referees). A referee with no ball types can take any game.

Nivel mínimo de árbitro

For referees from your list. Only referees at or above the level under Nivel mínimo get the games it covers. From lowest to highest: Aprendiz, Júnior, Certificado, Sénior, Principal.

A referee’s level is the Nivel de árbitro you set when adding them to the event (see how to add referees). Left on Predeterminado, the level on their referee profile counts. A referee with no level at all gets none of these games.

To cover only some playoff games, pick their stages under Etapas de playoffs (opcional). Left empty, the rule covers every game Tipo de Juego allows. Follows Alcance.

Carga de trabajo equilibrada

As a soft preference, favours the referees and teams with the fewest games so far. Even without it, those with the fewest games are tried first.

As a hard rule, nobody gets more than one game ahead of whoever has the fewest: among all the referees on your list, or among the teams that could referee the game. Someone who can’t take games for a while, blacked out or playing, holds the others back, so some games can be left without a referee. Follows Alcance.

Preferencia de misma cancha

As a soft preference, favours keeping a referee or team on the court of the last game they refereed. As a hard rule, a referee or team stays all day on the court of their first game that day. Follows Alcance.

Condición personalizada

Builds your own IF/THEN rule. CUANDO narrows the games and referees it looks at. ENTONCES says whether they Debe coincidir or No debe coincidir the conditions you add there. Conditions can look at the referee’s type (official or team) and the game’s court, round, type or playoff stage.