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Some evening and weekend leagues or events with more than one round of golf have the same pairings for each round, allowing consistency for league participants. The Multi-Round pairing scheduler will create identical pairings for all rounds in the event/league.
In this article, we will discuss how to create duplicate multi-round pairings.
Setting Multi-Round Pairings:
When you are ready to create the pairings, go to Event/League > Multi-Round Pairings (as shown below).
When going to this page, the setup form has the following sections:
Generate Pairings
Default Course & Tee
Tee Times
Generate Pairings:
In the Generate Pairings section, there will be two drop-downs.
Teams: If your event/league doesn't have teams, disregard this step and leave it at "Don't Use Teams" for all the rounds. If you have teams and you'd like to create pairings by team, then select the team list you want to create pairings by. For instructions on creating teams, Click Here. Note: Team lists that are not synced in all future rounds will be disabled.
Pair By: The other column is the "Pair By" column. If you have teams selected, then these will be your options:
Doesn't Matter: Schedule and balance pairings as best as possible. Don't worry about organizing by teams in any way.
Team (partners): Two Teammates play together in each foursome. Ideal for Four Ball, singles matches, and doubles matches.
Team (foursome): Teammates play together as foursomes. Ideal for best ball of foursome, 4-person scrambles.
Team (spread): Spread teammates apart from each other as best as possible. If there are two-person teams, this will prevent teammates from being paired with each other.
If you did not select teams, the pair-by options would be:
Doesn't Matter: Schedule and balance pairings as best as possible.
AB: Golf Genius will look at all the player's Handicap Indexes and assign each as an A or B player. So, each foursome will have two A players and two B players ordered by ABAB.
ABCD: Golf Genius will look at all the player's Handicap Indexes and assign each as an A, B, C, or D player. Each foursome will be ordered by ABCD.
Flight: If you have to create flights of players (You can do this under Manage Flights/Teams under the Golfers Menu), the scheduler will make sure each player will only play with players within their flight.
Default Course & Tee:
In the Default Course & Tee section, the manager can configure the default course used for each player by gender (i.e., male, female) when generating the pairings. You can set the available tee for males and females using the second drop-down.
Tee Times:
Enabled by default but can be disabled using the check box, set the first tee time for the pairings, the interval(s), and the starting hole for the pairings.
Creating Multi-Round Pairings:
Once the "Create Pairings" button is clicked, you are redirected to the job page, displaying the progress of generating pairings. After completing the job, you will be redirected to the Edit Existing Pairings page of the first future round.
After pairings have been created, the option to "Show Pairings in Event Portal" will be toggled to "Yes" in the Rounds tab. This will be done for all rounds with pairings created using the Multi-Round Pairings tool (as shown below).
Editing Pairings:
After creating the pairings, you can edit the existing pairings by going to Round> Edit Existing Pairings. If you make changes and click "Save Pairings," you can determine if these changes should be reflected in all other rounds or just the current round (as shown below).
Using the popup, select "No" to save the pairings change to that specific round only. When selecting "Yes" in the popup, the changes to the pairings will be pushed to all future rounds if the rounds have pairings created using the Multi-Round Pairings tool.