# 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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