How to add scheduling rules

Scheduling rules tell the generator what it has to respect, or should try to, when it places games: rest between games, a court that isn’t free in the morning, a streamed court every team should play on. They live in the Reglas de programación tab of your event’s settings. Rules apply the next time you generate the schedule: saving a rule moves no game.

Before you start

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

Steps

The steps add a Cobertura de canchas rule, so that every team plays on the streamed court. 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 programación tab.

   

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

   

4. Choose Cobertura de canchas. The new rule opens.

   

5. Under Canchas a cubrir, pick your streamed court. Partidos por equipo is the least number of games each team plays there, and Aplica a narrows the rule to a division or to teams. 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, see how to generate rules with AI.

Hard rules and soft preferences

The tab has two lists, and each rule type can go in either:

• Reglas estrictas must be met. When a time slot would break one, the generator leaves that slot for another game, or empty.
• Preferencias suaves guide the generator without blocking anything. Each has a weight: drag its slider towards Alto for the preferences that matter most.

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.

Bloqueo

Blocks a court, or all courts, during a time window, on one playing day or on all of them: a gym you only get at noon, or a lunch break for the whole venue. Aplica a can narrow it to a division or to teams, for a team that can’t arrive before a certain time. Set both a Hora de inicio and an Hora de finalización: a blackout without a time window blocks nothing.

Partidos consecutivos máximos

Limits how many games a team plays back to back. Two games count as back to back when less than 15 minutes separate them.

Tiempo mínimo de descanso

Sets the shortest rest, in minutes, between the end of a team’s game and the start of its next one.

Restricción de cancha

Keeps matches on the courts you allow: all matches, a division (and, when it has several groups, only some of them), or chosen teams. It only says where matches may go. To make sure every team gets a turn on a court, use Cobertura de canchas.

Cobertura de canchas

Gives every team at least the number of games you set on the courts you pick, usually the streamed court.

As a hard rule, those courts are held for teams that haven’t played on them yet, and given up only when the court would otherwise sit empty. This steers the whole schedule: on a day that is already full, giving everyone a turn can leave a few games unscheduled, so check the schedule after you generate. As a soft preference, those courts favour teams that haven’t played on them yet but are never held open for them.

With Ordenar por día on in the blueprint, each day is generated on its own, so the rule counts each day separately: a team’s turn on the court one day doesn’t count for the next.

Condición personalizada

Builds your own IF/THEN rule. Alcance base picks the matches it looks at. CUANDO narrows them with conditions on the court number, start time, division, home team or away team. ENTONCES says whether those matches Debe coincidir or No debe coincidir the conditions you add there.

To start quickly, click ✨ Empezar con una plantilla: Restringir división a canchas específicas, Bloquear equipo de una cancha, No hay partidos antes de una hora or No hay partidos después de una hora.