Creating an open play session

Overview

An open play is a session that belongs to no league and no season — a Tuesday-night drop-in run, or a one-off friendly between two of your club's teams. Unlike a training or match, an open play can hold games, scores, box scores, an ad-hoc roster, and an optional fee, all without any competition attached.

Open plays are a type of club event, so you create them from the same Events area.

Creating a session

1. Go to Events in the sidebar.
2. Click New event.
3. Set Type to Open play. Two extra fields appear:

1. Fill in the rest of the form (title, start/end, location) as you would for any event.
2. Click Create event.

Back-dating a session that already happened

Training, matches, and general club events must be scheduled in the future. Open plays are the exception — because clubs often record a run after it happened, you can set a start date and time in the past for an open play. This lets you back-fill last night's pick-up run and record its games and box scores.

What you can do on a session

Once created, the session page gives you everything an open play needs:

• Drop-in fee — optionally charge players to join.
• Roster — add club members and walk-on guests.
• Squads — form teams on the day for pick-up games.
• Games — record matchups and scores.
• Leaderboard — see how squads and players did.

Edge cases / gotchas

• Sport can't be blank. An open play always needs a sport; the form won't save without one.
• Recurring open plays. Weekly or custom recurrence works just like other events — each instance is a full open play with its own roster, games, capacity, and fee.
• Cancelling. Cancelling an open play is permanent and notifies members. If the session has a paid, public listing, ticket holders are notified too — see Listing a session publicly.