Setting up and managing leagues can be one of the most time-consuming (and frustrating) parts of bowls club admin. You have to manually create each fixture, working around player and rink availability to avoid conflicts, then make sure each fixture is fairly allocated across the rinks. It’s a slow and tedious process that eats up time you could have spent improving other parts of your club.
With Bowlr's League Management module, you can make all this a thing of the past. It automatically generates and compiles leagues in seconds, saving you from doing it by hand, while its balanced rink algorithm guarantees every fixture is distributed fairly across all the rinks. It’s great for your admin team, and great for your players!
Interested in what Bowlr has to offer? Give us a call on 01202 684400 today! Our friendly team are here to answer your questions and show you how Bowlr can be a fantastic addition to your club, so don’t hesitate to reach out.
League Organisation
Our league management system offers a wide range of customisation options, giving you full control over how your leagues are set up and run:
• Create a league from scratch, duplicate a previous one, or import one from a spreadsheet.
• Customise the league's mode, season, division, scoring options, and more.
• Keep track of league entry transactions.
• Generate and print session sheets in a few clicks.
You can tweak the league’s details at any stage of the creation process, so it’s easy to adapt if and when new information comes in.
Automated Fixture Generation
Once you've added teams to a league, you can move onto generating league fixtures. All you need to do is click the 'Generate' button, and the system will automatically generate, assign, and sort all the fixtures for the upcoming league. It does all the hard work in just a matter of seconds, saving you from hours of slow and monotonous data input!
Before confirming your fixtures, you'll be shown a clear overview of the rounds and play dates. This is so you can easily spot any potential scheduling conflicts in your diary and resolve them.
Balanced Rink Allocation
Don't stress about uneven rink allocations. Thanks to Bowlr's smart balancing algorithms, every fixture is distributed fairly across all the rinks you have available.
After your leagues have been generated, you can click on the 'Improve Rink Balance' button below. This will prompt the system to calculate rink balances until it finds the fairest combination possible. The balance ratings are clearly shown in tables underneath, so you don’t have to search through the fixtures manually to find out how balanced the rink spread is as a whole.
Transfer to Diary
Once Bowlr has finished generating the league fixtures, it can copy them over to your club's diary. This diary can be easily accessed online or viewed on your club's lounge or reception TV(s), so players won’t have to come into the club and ask your admin team about upcoming fixtures to stay in the loop. The diary can also be added to or edited as needed, even once all the fixtures have been transferred over.
If you want to learn more about our diary system, read through the details of our Booking and Calendar module!
Record Scores
Once a fixture is complete, players can submit their scores using the tablets available at the club. The system will then automatically populate the league tables with these results, saving you from having to enter them manually.
Say goodbye to the hassle of setting up fixtures by hand. With Bowlr, you can have your leagues set up and ready to go in just a few minutes – no hours of hard work needed.
If you’re ready to simplify admin and give your players the next-level experience they're looking for, then let's get started. Call us on 01202 684400 today!
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