This article describes how to configure a competition in the PlayHQ admin portal.
A Competition contains one or more seasons. Participants register for each season, are allocated to their team(s), and the teams fixtured for the season.
Create a competition
Creating a new competition is a two-step, guided process:
- From the main menu, click Competition Management
- Click Add Competition.
- Complete the Competition Details page, then click Next.
- Complete the Game & Grade Default Settings, then click Create Competition.
Learn more about each area below.
Competition settings are based on the sport
Some settings may only be visible to specific sports.
Competition Details
| Setting | Description |
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Competition Type |
Each competition type contains features that assist set up and management of the competition. Domestic: Matches in domestic competitions are played at venues linked to your association. Home and Away: Matches in home and away competitions are played at venues related to the home team Tournament: Tournament style competition with Round-robin played as a group phase (with or without pools) and knockout style finals |
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Competition Name |
A competition name should allow for multiple seasons. A competition name might be 'Junior Domestic', 'Senior Domestic', 'Australia Day Tournament', 'Country Representative League'. |
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Format |
The format allows participants to search for the competition by format easily. The formats displayed are defined by the sporting governing body. |
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Transfers |
Enable transfers to restrict player movement between clubs in a competition. This option requires participants to complete a transfer request before registering. |
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Permits |
Enable permits to let participants play temporarily at another club. Registration and payment are not required, and the player's primary club will remain unchanged. |
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New Player Approval |
Requires players who have not registered before to be approved before being allocated to a team. Transferred or permitted players will be automatically approved. |
Game & Grade Default Settings
Click the Next button, to view Game & Grade Default Settings that will apply to new games and grades created for the competition.
Game Settings
Set the default settings for every match in this competition. These settings can also be changed within individual grades.
Learn more about each setting in Managing Grades
| Setting | Description |
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Game Sheet template |
Choose the format of your game sheets. Note the available options will differ between sports. |
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Period Type |
Choose between common period types in the sport. |
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Period length (mins) |
Choose the period length for the grade's games. |
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Game slot time |
Choose the total game duration for the grade's games. This should include any warm-up time, pre-game, and wrap-up time after the game. |
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Period Scores |
Choose to enable/disable period scores. If enabled, you will need to choose By Period or End of Period. |
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Lineup Limits |
Choose the minimum and a maximum number of players and/or coaches who may participate in a game for a team |
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Player Positions (Netball, AFL & Hockey) |
Set whether player positions are available when selecting starting lineups. Player positions will also appear on the participant portal when lineups are published. If enabled, admins will need to choose whether positions are enforced when selecting lineups, meaning players must be assigned a position in order to be able to save lineups. Note: For AFL, both teams lineups must be entered and all 18 on field positions assigned in order to display player positions on the public game centre. For Hockey and Netball, positions will display whenever they are entered. |
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Overtime |
Choose to enable/disable overtime for the grade. |
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Extra Scores (AFL) |
Allows the inclusions for super goals (9) for AFL 9's competitions |
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Time-out limits (Basketball) |
Set time-out limits for game periods and over-time so that time-out limit can be displayed for electronically scored games for this grade. |
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Foul Penalties (Basketball) |
Foul penalties are enforced with limits for electronically scored games played in that grade. |
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Extra Scores |
Choose to enable/disable extra scores. If enabled, you will need to select the value of the extra scoring type. |
| Court Percentage Allocation | If the games do not require a full-size court or field, you can set the. percentage required here. By default, a Court's size will take up 100%. |
| Game outcome points | Set the whether points awarded to game results are sport default or custom. Game outcome points are the number of points awarded towards a teams ladder points. |
| Ladder Ranking View | Select the calculation to decide the order of the ladder. For more information click here. |
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Ladder visibility |
Set whether the grade's ladder is to be visible on the organisation's PlayHQ Discover site. |
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Game Type (Cricket) |
The game type pre-sets the Overs, Innings, Total Game Slot Time, Game Outcome Points and Fixture Slot. |
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Overs (Cricket) |
Set the number of overs |
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Super Over (Cricket) |
Set whether a super over is applied in a tied game. This can then be set to be applied always or just in finals. |
Grade Settings
Set the default settings for every grade in this competition. These settings can also be changed within individual grades.
Learn more about each setting in Managing Grades
| Setting | Description |
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Club Access Settings |
Set club access that will be provided. This includes allowing clubs to enter scores usimg the Admin Portal and via electronic scoring. Every sport grants a different level of access by default. |
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Publishing Lineups |
Association Admins have the ability to select when team lineups are published on the PlayHQ public site and participant portal. Three options are available:
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Best Players |
Choose to enable/disable best players.If enabled, you will need to select the amount of best players. |
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Player Points |
Choose to enable/disable player points for the grade. If enabled, you will need to choose whether to Enforce a team total player points cap |
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Finals eligibility |
Choose to enable/disable finals eligibility for the grade. If enabled, you will need to select the value for minimum number of games played. |
On completion, select the Create Competition button. A competition tile will be created on the Competition Management landing page.
Edit a competition
You can update the competition details at any time by selecting the relevant Competition tile, and then selecting the Settings tab. From here, you can update details using the General, and Grade Defaults sub-tabs.
Note: The Competition type cannot be edited.
Update the information you would like to change, and then select Update & Save.
Delete a competition
You can delete a competition by selecting the relevant Competition tile, and then selecting the Settings tab. From the General sub-tab, select Delete competition.
Note: Delete competition will be disabled is the Competition contains one or more Seasons.
Confirm the deletion by clicking 'Delete competition', or click 'Cancel' to return to the previous page without deleting the competition.
