Types of Weekly Leagues

Running a Weekly League on Scoreholio: Your Options Explained

Scoreholio offers multiple ways to structure and manage a weekly league depending on your needs. Whether you're organizing a fixed-team league or a flexible weekly blind draw, here’s a breakdown of the three main methods you can use — along with their benefits and limitations.

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1. Set Schedule League (Most Commonly Used)

✅ Best For:

Organizers who want to schedule every match in advance and run a consistent, streamlined league across a fixed number of weeks.

🔧 How It Works:

Using the Set Schedule feature, you build your full league schedule upfront. Scoreholio will automatically generate matchups based on your format and schedule, and you run each week directly from this setup.

✔️ Pros:

• Entire schedule is created upfront — no weekly setup required.

• Great for competitive, team-based leagues where consistency is key.

• Weekly flow is simple: just show up, run matches, and submit results.

• Sub management

❌ Cons:

• Teams cannot be added or removed once the schedule is created.

• No flexibility format changes.

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2. Import Method League (Best for Dynamic or Tiered Leagues)

✅ Best For:

Organizers who want maximum flexibility and may need to adjust teams, formats, or divisions from week to week.

🔧 How It Works:

Each week, you import the previous week's player or team data into a new tournament. This allows you to retain stats and adjust your structure as needed.

✔️ Pros:

• Add or remove teams/players each week.

• Great for promotion/relegation or multi-division leagues.

• Fully customizable week-to-week.

• Keeps historical stats across weeks.

❌ Cons:

• You must carefully manage the Game Log. Re-importing the game log across multiple weeks will cause the system to stop assigning matches once one team has played every other team once.

• Slightly more setup time each week than a Set Schedule.

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3. Scoreholio Season Submission (Best for Switcholio/Blind Draw Leagues)

✅ Best For:

Organizers running blind draw, Switcholio, or mixed format leagues who want an aggregated points leaderboard across multiple weeks.

🔧 How It Works:

You run your weekly tournaments using the Import Method, then submit each week’s results to a Scoreholio Season. The season acts as a centralized leaderboard for player stats and points.

✔️ Pros:

• Combines multiple tournaments into a single leaderboard.

• Players see cumulative stats, rankings, and match history.

• You can limit how many tournaments count toward a player's overall score (e.g., “best 6 out of 10”).

• Easy to manage long-running leagues or club nights with rotating players.

❌ Cons:

• Requires using the Import Method for tournament setup.

• No pre-built schedule.

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🧠 Which Should You Choose?

Your League Style	Recommended Method
Fixed teams, predictable weekly schedule	Set Schedule League
Flexible teams, tiered divisions, promotion/relegation	Import Method League
Blind draw or Switcholio with points tracking	Scoreholio Season Submission

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🛠️ Pro Tip:

You can even combine methods — for example, using the Import Method to adjust teams and also submitting each week’s results to a Scoreholio Season for long-term point tracking.

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