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 Règles de planification 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 Couverture des terrains 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 Paramètres at the bottom of the sidebar.

   

2. Open the Règles de planification tab.

   

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

   

4. Choose Couverture des terrains. The new rule opens.

   

5. Under Terrains à couvrir, pick your streamed court. Matchs par équipe is the least number of games each team plays there, and S’applique à narrows the rule to a division or to teams. 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, 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:

• Règles strictes must be met. When a time slot would break one, the generator leaves that slot for another game, or empty.
• Préférences souples guide the generator without blocking anything. Each has a weight: drag its slider towards Élevé 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.

Blackout

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. S’applique à can narrow it to a division or to teams, for a team that can’t arrive before a certain time. Set both a Heure de début and an Heure de fin: a blackout without a time window blocks nothing.

Matchs consécutifs max.

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

Temps de repos minimum

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

Restriction de terrain

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 Couverture des terrains.

Couverture des terrains

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 Trier par jour 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.

Condition personnalisée

Builds your own IF/THEN rule. Portée de base picks the matches it looks at. QUAND narrows them with conditions on the court number, start time, division, home team or away team. ALORS says whether those matches Doit correspondre or Ne doit pas correspondre the conditions you add there.

To start quickly, click ✨ Commencer avec un modèle: Restreindre la division à des terrains spécifiques, Bloquer une équipe d’un terrain, Pas de parties avant une certaine heure or Pas de parties après une certaine heure.