How to set referee assignment rules

Referee rules guide Atribuições de arbitragem, which puts referees and teams on all your games in one go (see how to assign referees automatically). They live in the Regras de Atribuição 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 Arbitragem de Equipes Permitidas 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 Arbitragem de Equipes Permitidas rule, so that only the teams you choose referee. Every rule type is added the same way.

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

   

2. Open the Regras de Atribuição de Árbitros tab.

   

3. Under Regras Rígidas, click Adicionar Regra. For a soft preference instead, use Adicionar Preferência under Preferências Flexíveis.

   

4. Choose Arbitragem de Equipes Permitidas. The new rule opens.

   

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

   

6. Click Salvar Todas as Alterações de Configuração.

   

To describe your rules in plain words instead, click Gerar com IA beside Adicionar Regra, then review the rules it writes before you save.

Hard rules and soft preferences

• Regras Rígidas must be met. Assignment skips anyone who would break one, and a game nobody can take is left without that referee.
• Preferências Flexíveis 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: Preferência por Mesma Quadra, Carga de trabalho balanceada, Exclusão de Árbitro/Equipe and Condição Personalizada.

In most rules, Aplica-se a picks who it covers: Todos os Árbitros, Apenas Oficiais (the referees on your list) or Apenas Equipes. Tipo de Jogo keeps it to Apenas Pool Play or Apenas Eliminatórias. Where a rule below follows Escopo, Divisão específica covers the games of the divisions you pick, Time 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 de Arbitragem Concorrente

For teams. Sets under Máximo de Quadras Simultâneas 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 Designações Consecutivas

Limits how many time slots in a row a referee or team works, to the number under Máximo de Jogos Consecutivos (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 Escopo.

Arbitragem de Equipes Permitidas

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

Divisão apita a própria divisão

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.

Atribuição de Divisão

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

Grupo apita grupo

For divisions split into groups. Under Como os grupos são emparelhados:

• Cada grupo apita os grupos que eu escolher: for each group you list, pick under Pode apitar the groups its teams may referee. Groups you don’t list are left free.
• Um conjunto de grupos que só apitam entre si: the teams of the groups you pick only referee those groups’ games. Também impedir que qualquer outro grupo apite os jogos destes grupos also keeps every other team off them.

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

Não Pode Arbitrar Após 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 Escopo, but which team fills a playoff place isn’t known yet when referees are assigned, so only Global (Todos) and Divisão específica do anything here.

Não Pode Arbitrar Partida Antes de Jogar

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 Escopo. On playoff places, only Global (Todos) and Divisão específica apply, for the same reason as above.

Exclusão de Árbitro/Equipe

Keeps a referee or a team off the games of the teams you pick. Set Escopo to Árbitro Específico or Time específico and pick who, then list under Equipes Excluídas the teams they shouldn’t referee.

Indisponibilidade de Árbitro

Keeps referees off games that start during a time window: pick a Dia or Todos os Dias, then a Hora de início and an Horário de Término. A day without times blocks that whole day. To block one referee or one team, set Escopo to Árbitro Específico or Time específico and pick them.

Certificação por Tipo de Bola

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

Nível Mínimo de Árbitro

For referees from your list. Only referees at or above the level under Nível Mínimo get the games it covers. From lowest to highest: Trainee, Júnior, Certificado, Sênior, Chefe.

A referee’s level is the Nível de Árbitro you set when adding them to the event (see how to add referees). Left on Padrão, 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 Fases de Playoffs (Opcional). Left empty, the rule covers every game Tipo de Jogo allows. Follows Escopo.

Carga de trabalho balanceada

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 Escopo.

Preferência por Mesma Quadra

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 Escopo.

Condição Personalizada

Builds your own IF/THEN rule. QUANDO narrows the games and referees it looks at. ENTÃO says whether they Deve corresponder or Não deve corresponder 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.