Seasons
- New seasonA name, a start and an end date, and how many boxes. Then a match format, a points table and how the table is sorted (see Points).
- A draftNobody but you can see or touch it. Put the players in the boxes, yourself or by handing boxes to admins.
- LiveTake it live on the season’s page says what is left to do. It needs a box with two players in it.
- ArchivedViewable forever. Reopen it brings it back if you archived too early.
Both dates are required. The end date is the day players stop being able to enter scores. A season runs up to 190 days, which is about six months, and can start up to three months from today.
Three months is the length we recommend: a box league works to a deadline, and that is what players turn out for. Run a longer year as two or three seasons, which is what Next season is for.
Taking a season live archives any other live season, and you can put it back to a draft if you went early. Everything about a season is in League settings, and its foot offers what comes next: Go live, Next season or Reopen it.
How boxes are numbered
To give boxes a name, put them in a group. A group can be one box: a Racketball group with one box in it reads Racketball on the tabs. See Groups of boxes.
Playing everyone twice
Each box can play everyone once or twice, and the Still to play list counts both meetings.
A player’s own list shows each opponent once. The return comes up once the first match has a score in, marked v Jo · return, so nobody has two identical rows and wonders which to arrange.
You can switch a box to twice part-way through a season, which is what to do when a box finishes early with a month left. Going back to once only works while no meeting would be lost: if both matches in a pairing are played, clear one first.