Creating and Activating Finals
The function of Activating Finals calculates and transposes the completed match ladder data into your Match Day finals slots based on your selected finals formats.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Before you can activate your finals, ensure that you have created a finals format. You will know if you have created a finals format, as your finals templates will be visible in the Match
Day > Matches list.
CREATING A FINALS FORMAT
Select the Competitions module > select the competition of interest > hover your mouse over Owned Competitions from the top menu and select Competition Format > scroll to the bottom of the page and select
Finals Format for divisions as required. You can apply finals formats to all divisions, or selected divisions only as some may not play finals. Select Next to setup the finals structure for each division selected.
Complete finals information for all selected divisions.
REGENERATE THE DRAW
Regenerate the Draw
Once you’ve entered the finals details, select Create Draft Draw and regenerate using the following steps.
a. If there are specific divisions that you would like to generate finals for, select only those divisions
b. Regenerate from the last round of the season
c. Regenerate using Team Rankings
d. Select No for Overide and delete past matches
Click OK.
PUBLISH FINALS MATCHES
Once you have regenerated your draw, publish by following these steps.
a. Select only the divisions for which you wish to publish finals for
b. Select only the finals rounds
c. Select No for Publish past matches.
Once you have published your matches, the next step is to Activate Finals. To ensure correct team names populate all games will need to have been ended. You can Bulk Update to ensure all games are ended by following the steps here.
ACTIVATING FINALS
- Select the Match Day module
- Select the Competition of interest
- Hover over Competition Details
- Select Matches
- Hover over Action
- Select Activate Finals
- Choose which divisions you would like to activate finals for.
Select the divisions you would like to activate finals for. These matches will be populated with the teams playing in finals. The will be visible in Match Day > Matches list, on the Fixtures page and in the Netball Connect app. If the teams are not populating please follow the troubleshooting steps below.
TROUBLESHOOTING
If you find after publishing, ending all games, and activating finals the teams are not populating into the finals rounds please follow the steps below to rectify.
Go to the last round that has been played, for each game in that last round click on the match ID > Edit > take note of the final scores > Un-End Match > Save, click the same Match ID > Edit > Enter final scores > Select End Match. This will ensure teams will populate in the finals games.