How to set referee assignment rules

Referee rules guide Affectations des arbitres, which puts referees and teams on all your games in one go (see how to assign referees automatically). They live in the Règles d’affectation des arbitres 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 Équipes autorisées à arbitrer 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 Équipes autorisées à arbitrer rule, so that only the teams you choose referee. Every rule type is added the same way.

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

   

2. Open the Règles d’affectation des arbitres tab.

   

3. Under Règles strictes, click Ajouter une règle. For a soft preference instead, use Ajouter une préférence under Préférences souples.

   

4. Choose Équipes autorisées à arbitrer. The new rule opens.

   

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

   

6. Click Enregistrer toutes les modifications des paramètres.

   

To describe your rules in plain words instead, click Générer avec l’IA beside Ajouter une règle, then review the rules it writes before you save.

Hard rules and soft preferences

• Règles strictes must be met. Assignment skips anyone who would break one, and a game nobody can take is left without that referee.
• Préférences souples 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: Préférence même terrain, Charge de travail équilibrée, Exclusion arbitre/équipe and Condition personnalisée.

In most rules, S’applique à picks who it covers: Tous les arbitres, Officiels seulement (the referees on your list) or Équipes seulement. Type de match keeps it to Phase de groupe uniquement or Éliminatoires uniquement. Where a rule below follows Portée, Division spécifique covers the games of the divisions you pick, Équipe spécifique the teams you pick, and Arbitre spécifique 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.

Arbitrage simultané max.

For teams. Sets under Terrains simultanés max 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.

Affectations consécutives max.

Limits how many time slots in a row a referee or team works, to the number under Matchs consécutifs max. (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 Portée.

Équipes autorisées à arbitrer

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

Division arbitre sa division

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.

Affectation de division

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

Groupe arbitre groupe

For divisions split into groups. Under Comment les groupes sont appariés:

• Chaque groupe arbitre les groupes que je choisis: for each group you list, pick under Peut arbitrer the groups its teams may referee. Groups you don’t list are left free.
• Un ensemble de groupes qui s’arbitrent uniquement entre eux: the teams of the groups you pick only referee those groups’ games. Empêcher aussi tous les autres groupes d’arbitrer les matchs de ces groupes also keeps every other team off them.

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

Ne peut pas arbitrer après une défaite

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 Portée, but which team fills a playoff place isn’t known yet when referees are assigned, so only Global (Tous) and Division spécifique do anything here.

Ne peut pas arbitrer un match avant de jouer

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 Portée. On playoff places, only Global (Tous) and Division spécifique apply, for the same reason as above.

Exclusion arbitre/équipe

Keeps a referee or a team off the games of the teams you pick. Set Portée to Arbitre spécifique or Équipe spécifique and pick who, then list under Équipes exclues the teams they shouldn’t referee.

Arbitre indisponible

Keeps referees off games that start during a time window: pick a Jour or Tous les jours, then a Heure de début and an Heure de fin. A day without times blocks that whole day. To block one referee or one team, set Portée to Arbitre spécifique or Équipe spécifique and pick them.

Certification type de balle

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

Niveau d’arbitre minimum

For referees from your list. Only referees at or above the level under Niveau minimum get the games it covers. From lowest to highest: Stagiaire, Junior, Certifié, Senior, Principal.

A referee’s level is the Niveau d’arbitre you set when adding them to the event (see how to add referees). Left on Par défaut, 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 Phases éliminatoires (facultatif). Left empty, the rule covers every game Type de match allows. Follows Portée.

Charge de travail équilibrée

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 Portée.

Préférence même terrain

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 Portée.

Condition personnalisée

Builds your own IF/THEN rule. QUAND narrows the games and referees it looks at. ALORS says whether they Doit correspondre or Ne doit pas correspondre 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.