Running League Seasons (Examples)

This guide is for event directors, event managers, and organization admins running league seasons.

How to model a “season” in Paddles Up

Today, Paddles Up models a season as a single Event with Type = League.

• The Event date is your season start (or your first play date).
• The optional end date is the season end.
• Each “league style” you run inside the season is typically a Competition.
• Each competition uses one or more Phases:
  • Group Play for round-robin groups and standings
  • Bracket for single-elimination playoffs

If you prefer each league to have its own participants, staff, and results, create separate League events instead of multiple competitions in one League event.

End-to-end checklist (UI flow)

1) Create the league season event

1. Open Events.
2. Tap New Event.
3. Select the host Organization.
4. In Event details:
   • Set Type to League
   • Set Date & time (season start / first play date)
   • Set Season end date (optional)
   • Add optional venue, ball, and description
5. Tap Create Event.

2) Add participants

1. Open your new league event.
2. Go to the Participants tab.
3. Add players (manually or by import if available for your workflow).

3) Create competitions (your league formats)

1. In the league event, go to the Competitions tab.
2. Tap Add Competition for each format you’re running (examples below).
3. Configure basics:
   • Name
   • Team size (1/2/3 depending on format)
   • Optional start time / prize description

4) Create teams for each competition

1. Open a competition.
2. Go to the Teams tab.
3. Create teams and assign participants (manually or with any available generator in your UI).

5) Create phases and run play

1. In the competition, go to the Phases tab.
2. Tap Add Phase.
3. Choose Group Play (for standings) and/or Bracket (for playoffs).
4. When play begins, Activate the phase.
5. Enter scores as matches are played.
6. When finished, Complete the phase (and proceed to the next phase if you have one).

6) Close out the season

1. When league play begins, set the event status to In Progress.
2. When all play is concluded across competitions, set the event status to Complete.
3. Share results by pointing participants to the event’s competitions and standings/brackets.

Example season: 6 league styles

Below are playbooks for common league styles. Each one is a standalone page you can follow end-to-end:

• Triple Team Men’s (Triples)
• Triple Team Coed (Triples)
• Mixed Fixed Round Robin
• Coed Random Round Robin
• PPB Tour (Weekly Tournament)
• MLP (Team League)