We often find ourselves looking to create a tournament that allows us to create teams within a larger team. For example, this could be a club vs club event, where we have 12 players on each team that make up 6 pairs (teams) within the team. Then these teams within the team, play an alternate shot and their scores aggregate to produce a score for the team of those 12 players against the other team of 12 players.
This format is possible using the Best Team Scores (Teams within Teams) Scoring Format. This format allows you to play a team vs team event, but use the scores of pair(s) or foursome(s) within those teams to produce an aggregate team score.
An alternative to this format is a team-based Stroke Play format that counts a certain number of individual player(s) total scores from each team, frequently played in college golf, high school, and Canadian leagues. For more details about setting up the Best Team Players (College Scoring Format), Click Here.
In this article, we will discuss how you can set up the Teams within Teams format, display the leaderboard on a tv, and view some example leaderboards.
Setup:
To set up this tournament format, follow these instructions:
Go to Rounds > Tournaments > New Tournament. (Note: If this is a multi-round tournament, go to League/Event > Multi-Round Tournaments > Add New Tournament over Multiple Rounds.)
Select the team list that was created in step #1.
Select "The tee sheet is or will be physically organized by team".
Select "Best Team Scores" in the "team scores will include" dropdown.
Enter the total scores that should be counted. Are you counting only the top 4 total net scores for each team? If so, leave gross blank. Are you counting a combination of gross and net scores? If so, then enter the number to be counted for each. When taking a combination of gross and net total scores, it is important to select the desired optimization. Because you cannot use a team's gross and net score for the team total, it has to be one or the other. Do you take the best total gross scores first, then the remaining net? Or do you take the best net first? Or, do you take the optimal combination of both? If taking the optimal combination, our system will determine the absolute best combination to give each team the best possible score.
Select the competition. Use "Team (All Pairs)" if pairs will be used for team scoring (e.g., Alternate Shot). Use "Team(All Foursomes)" if foursomes are used for team scoring.
Finish the tournament setup and select your desired settings.
Below is an example tournament setup:
Once the tournament is set up, you can then create pairings. If setting up a "Team (All Pairs)" competition, make sure the pairings are organized so that Player 1 and 2 in the pairing group are on a team and Players 3 and 4 are on another team. If setting up a Team (All Foursomes)" competition, make sure the pairings are organized so that all the players in the foursome are on the same team.
TV Display:
When using the TV Display leaderboard for this format, there will be a summary page showing all the team totals with their rank (as shown below).
There will also be a separate page for every team. On this page, the pair/foursome scores will be displayed (as shown below).
You can optionally remove these pages from the TV Display rotation by selecting "Manage Pages" in the blue settings bar and marking/unmarking pages as visible (as shown below).
Live Scoring:
If using live scoring for this type of format, in-progress scores are calculated by taking the current best X out of Y "To Par" scores of the team. The "Thru" column on the leaderboard will also list the minimum thru and maximum thru of every team (as shown below).
If using live scoring for this type of format, you can also define how an in-progress leaderboard should be ranked. This will allow you to determine how players that have not started will be considered for the team score. To define the how the in-progress leaderboard is scores go to Event/League > Event/League Profile > Tournaments & Scoring > College Scoring. You will be given two options on how to score the leaderboard (as show below):
Considered part of the team score and displayed as even par for the round: If this option is chosen, during a round set to in-progress, players will be considered to be part of the team score even if they have no scores yet. These players will be considered to be even par.
Not considered part of the team score and displayed as no score for the round: If this option is chosen, during a round set to in-progress, players will not be considered to be part of the team score until at least one score is entered. These players will be displayed no score even par for the round and are not considered part of the team score.
Leaderboard Examples:
Best 2 Gross of 4:
In the above example, there are 4 teams of 8, with 4 pairs within those team of 8. We are counting the best 2 out of the 4 pairs total gross scores from each team. East Team won with a total team score of -2. The pairs of Trainer/Wallace and Langenfeld/Jennings had the lowest 2 scores for that team and they were all added up for one team score.
Best 2 Gross + Best 1 Net:
This example uses teams of 8 with 4 pairs. Of the 4 pairs on each team, take the best 2 Gross total scores plus the best net total scores. The scores being used are in bold on the right. We used the gross scores of the pairs Trainer/Wallace and Chamberlin/Vermillion and the net score of Lattimer/Nichols. Those pairs scores added up for a total team score of +27.