Pool Policy

Pool policy is part of the sheet policy, and is edited in the Settings dialog.

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Set pool policy on the Entries sheet prior to initialising pool play.

Be sure to hit Save settings, scrolling down if necessary.

Shuffle entries

Shuffle the entries into random order when initialising pool play (i.e."doing the draw").

Same clubs don't play (SCDP)

Perform a random draw such that teams from the same club or organisation don't play each other. Only check this if it makes sense for your event.

Has ends

Will initialise pool play with ends columns visible in addition to the shots score. Put the ends score after the shots score e.g. 12-7,5-4. The default ranking will be: wins including draws, ends for, then shot differential.

Has qualifiers

Determines if qualifiers are shown and counted. Qualifiers are denoted by a Q in the Q column. Only check if qualifiers make sense for your event.

Seeded groups

If Shuffle entries is true then entries will be shuffled within groups depending on Groups of below.

Rounds

Must be in the range 3–15. Required.

Games

Enter the number of games to be played, or leave it equal to rounds.

Groups of

Enter the maximum number of teams per pool, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16... . Required.

Chartroom will determine the actual pool sizes based on the number of entries.

To qualify

Specify the qualifying criterion that applies to your event.

Type can be:

  • Wins including draws
  • Pool rank
  • Pool rank + next best
  • Overall rank
  • Overall percentage
  • Points

Value is the number of wins e.g. 3, 2.5 etc., or the rank, or percentage, or points total, depending on type.

Pool rank + next best is a combination of pool rank and overall rank. For example to select pool winners plus the next 3 on overall rank set the value to 1+3.

If the event is decided solely on pool play with no knockout play set Pool rank to 1, 2, or 3... as desired.

To qualify type and value can be changed during the event, for example to decrease the number of wins needed if fewer than the scheduled number of rounds are to be played.

Extra round

Select if you want an extra blank round for pool play.

Dependent rinks

Sometimes pools are not independent, for example if 2 or more pools are occupying the same green. Select to get rinks set automatically for dependent pools, if possible.

Sum by column C

For sides play specify if you want a top summary table giving totals by the club or org in column C i.e. for certain sides events.

Series event

Link multiple pools together that are logically the same pool e.g. multiple round-robins.

Groups of strict

Specify if you want all pools to be strictly the same size. See Groups of above.

Add field

Add a formula to row 3 which shows the number of teams in the field.

Sum by rows

For sides events specify the number of teams (i.e. rows) per side.

It is possible to have Sum by column C and Sum by rows in combination.

Sub groups of

Specify sub groups as preferable to many small pools, e.g. 8 sub groups of 3 can form a group of 24.

Differential points

Specify points for various game margins in groups of 2 values. E.g. to award 8 points for a win, 4 points for a draw, and 1 point for a narrow loss specify as: 1,8,0,4,-2,1

Round points

Specify points based on wins (including draws) for discrete rounds. E.g. in a 6 round competition, to award 4 points for a win in the first 2 rounds and 2 points for a win in the remaining 4 rounds, specify as 4,4,2,2,2,2

Points + ends

Enable Points + ends to have the ends score added to points.

Rink data

Specify a specific set of rink data – essentially who plays who in each round – e.g. Wellington singles.

Group text

Initial text that appears in the header row for each pool and can be used to control pool numbering etc. The pool header text can be edited on the charts at any time.

E.g. Pool # giving Pool 1, Pool 2, Pool 3 … , Group #A would give Group A, Group B, Group C …

Rank By

Specify an alternate ranking schema. Choices are:

  • Wins, ends, shots for
  • Wins, shots for, ends
  • Wins, differential, ends
  • Wins, differential, shots against
  • Matches, games, shot differential (for sides play)

Round Text

Specify the headings for each round, i.e. replacing R1, R2, R3 ...

Advanced Pool Policy

Add or modify advanced pool policy options as JSON in Settings > Advanced.

Rich group text

Works with Group text above to provide some basic text formatting. e.g.

 {"richGroupText":{
      "delimiter":" –",
      "color1":"#CC0000",
      "color2":"",
      "remove":true
  }}

would colour the Pool # text dark red, followed by black text, then finally deletes the delimiter.

Sortable

Specify true to set up the pool rank in column A, e.g. {"sortable":true}. Note this will happen by default if the To Qualify type is Pool rank.

Never Sortable

Specify to protect a sheet from ever being sorted via Sort pool by column A, e.g. {"neverSortable":true}.

scdpSubstr

Use characters from the right of the club for SCDP purposes. If strip is set to true these characters are removed. e.g. {"scdpSubstr":{"strip":false,"right":2}}

GroupSeq and GroupSeqAlpha

Provide starting values for wildcards in groupText e.g. {"groupSeq":2,"groupSeqAlpha":"B"}