Mini-league parameters¶

This page describes the mini-league configuration parameters accessible from Mini-leagues > Club parameters. For an introduction to the concepts (sessions, divisions, pools, redistribution), see Mini-leagues: concepts.

The parameters are organized into two sections:

• Global parameters: common to all mini-leagues in the club, applied immediately
• Default session parameters: default values used when creating new mini-leagues (individually modifiable afterwards)

Video: the settings and what they change¶

Global parameters¶

These parameters apply to all mini-leagues in the club. Any change takes effect immediately for ongoing mini-leagues.

Automatic calculation¶

Players without matches¶

Determines how players who have not played any match during a session are handled.

Default value: Relegate

Leavers as relegable¶

Determines how players who left the mini-league during a session affect relegation.

• Yes: leavers are placed in last position, then removed. They "consume" relegation slots, which protects active players from being relegated.
• No: leavers keep their ranking position, then are removed. Active players at the bottom of the ranking are relegated normally.

Either way, the leaver is not in the next session: the mini-league has one player fewer (see Constrain).

Default value: No

Shuffle players¶

Controls how players are distributed across pools during redistribution between sessions. In both cases, distribution happens within each division: a player stays in their division (division changes come only from promotions and relegations).

• Yes: the players of a division are randomly shuffled, then distributed across its pools. Pool composition therefore changes each session (new opponents), and the order of the players in the match grid (A, B, C…) is random as well.
• No: players are distributed in order: first the players who stayed, by their results in the previous session, then the players relegated from the division above, and finally the players promoted from the division below. The pools are filled in that order: the best players of the division end up together in the first pool, and the newcomers in the last one, at the end of the grid. The pools of a division are therefore no longer of the same level.

Default value: Yes

Full page¶

Refresh interval¶

Automatic refresh interval for the full-page display (kiosk mode).

• Range: 1 to 60 minutes
• Default value: 5 minutes

Recording¶

Recording type¶

Determines the status of a mini-league when it is saved. The club's value prefills the choice in the form of each mini-league.

Default value: Online

Ranking¶

Ranking filters¶

Allows configuring the criteria used to break ties in the mini-league ranking. Filters are ordered by priority via drag and drop.

Available filters are moved from the left column (available filters) to the right column (selected filters). The order in the right column determines the priority: the first filter that separates two players decides, and the next ones only apply in case of a tie.

Default value: the five filters, in the order of the table.

These filters are also used at the end-of-session switchover, to compare players of different pools of the same division.

Default session parameters¶

These parameters serve as default values when creating new mini-leagues. They can be individually modified on each mini-league after creation.

General¶

Number of players per draw¶

Target size of the pools created at the end-of-session switchover. It changes nothing in the current session. Depending on the number of players and on Constrain, a pool can have one player more, or fewer for the last one.

• Range: 2 to 15 players
• Default value: 4

Constrain¶

Determines how the pools are formed at the switchover when the number of players does not fill the pools exactly, for example when a player left the mini-league or was removed from it.

• No: players fill the pools from the top, some pools getting one player more. The last pool can disappear, its players being spread over the upper pools.
• Yes: every pool keeps the number of players per draw, and the last one gets what is left.

Default value: No

Periodicity¶

Duration¶

Duration of a mini-league session.

• Value: number + unit (days, weeks or months)
• Default value: 1 month

Automatic renewal¶

When enabled, a new session is automatically created at the end of the current session, with players redistributed into pools according to their results.

Default value: Yes

Review period¶

Number of days during which the new session stays closed after the switchover, for the manager to check it before it opens (pool composition, integration requests). The switchover takes place the night after the end of the session; at the end of the period, the session opens and the players are notified. This period is part of the duration of the new session.

• Range: 1 to 3 days
• Default value: 1 day

End reminder¶

Number of days before the end of the session from which the players who still have matches to play are reminded: a notification every day until the last day, and an e-mail on the first day to the players who ticked "Be informed of the changeover a few days in advance" in their notification preferences.

• Range: 1 to 9 days
• Default value: 5 days

Scores¶

Scoring system¶

Match format in the mini-league.

Default value: Best of 5

Score validation period¶

Number of days the opponent has to confirm or contest a submitted score. The deadline never goes past the end of the session. Until it is confirmed, a pending score does not count in the ranking shown.

• Range: 1 to 5 days
• Default value: 3 days

Action on expiry¶

Determines what happens when a submitted score has not been validated by the opponent within the allowed period.

Default value: Validate

Score-to-points conversion table¶

The points awarded depend on the selected scoring system. Each row in the table shows the points awarded to the winner (left column) and to the loser (right column).

Best of 5 matches¶

Best of 3 matches¶

Draws¶

Forfeits¶

Forfeits award points following the same principle, but with distinct scales.

Best of 5:

Best of 3:

End-of-session switchover¶

The night after the end of a session, MySquash creates the next session if automatic renewal is on. Several settings then work together:

1. Each pool is ranked by the ranking filters. Its top players (number of promotions) are candidates to move up, its bottom players (number of relegations) go down. Players without matches and leavers are handled according to their settings.
2. All the players are put in a single list, from the highest division to the lowest, then cut according to the places of each division (number of players per draw, Constrain).
3. Within each division, the players are distributed into the pools, shuffled or not (Shuffle players).

This cut has three consequences worth knowing:

• Relegations decide. When the divisions keep their size, as many players move up as move down. If two players go down from a division but only one promotion is set below, the remaining place goes to the next best player of the lower division, all pools together. Conversely, a player marked "Promotion" in the ranking can stay in their division.
• The form ties the numbers in pairs. Changing the relegations of a pool sets the promotions of the first pool of the division below, and changing the promotions of a pool sets the relegations of the first pool of the division above.
• One player fewer changes the pools. A leaver or a removed player frees a place: depending on Constrain, the pools are refilled from the top, which moves extra players up, or the last pool stays incomplete.