Leagues
Set your team's line-up
Captains and vice-captains set their team's line-up on the night's page. While yours is missing for your next night, the league's Overview shows a “Set your line-up” row, and a reminder arrives at 10 a.m. league time the day before.
Step by step
- Open the nightTap the night on the league's Fixtures tab, or the Set your line-up row on the Overview.
- Open the line-upUnder Line-ups, tap Set line-up next to your team. Once every game has its players, it says Edit.
- Pick the playersChoose a player for each game. This night's substitutes are listed under Substitutes.
- Save itTap Save line-up. Save for now keeps a part-filled one; it counts as in once every game has its players.
Hidden or open line-ups
The league's rules set this. With Hidden until both are in, the other side's picks show as Hidden until both line-ups are in or the night is locked. With Open, each side sees the other's as soon as it's saved. A team game needs at least two players.
Changing a line-up
- Until both line-ups are in, change yours as often as you like.
- Once both are in, ask the organizers to change yours.
- Once the night is locked, with open line-ups, you can swap a player in a game nobody has started with Change.
- Under the Fill in until the start rule, you can still fill empty seats after the lock with Fill seats, hidden line-ups included. Each game you fill locks straight away.
- The league's owner and admins can change any line-up until the night is over.
- Nobody can change a line-up while the night is suspended.
When line-ups lock
| How | When |
|---|---|
| By hand | A captain, the league's owner or an admin taps Lock the night once both line-ups are in. |
| Automatically | At the night's start time, or the minutes before or after it that the rules set, whether or not both line-ups are in. This needs a start time for the season. |
A night the organizers unlocked doesn't lock itself again, and neither does a night whose lock time had already passed when the start time was set. Lock those by hand.
If a line-up is missing at the automatic lock, the rules decide. Fill in until the start leaves those games waiting for players. Forfeit the unfilled games forfeits each game a side didn't fill, and voids a game neither side filled; if neither side put anyone in and nothing has been played, both teams forfeit the night.
The owner and admins can tap Unlock games not started to send locked games nobody has started back to the line-ups. Forfeited games come back with Undo the forfeit on the night's page, or one at a time from the game's result with Restore it to be played.
Games a player
If the rules limit how many games one player plays a night, saving a line-up over it is refused with the player's name and the limit. A game played as one set of legs, such as a Chicago pairing, counts once.