Skoryd

Brackets & seeding

Tournaments (and round-robin + bracket leagues) play out a bracket. This page covers the bracket types, how Skoryd seeds them, and the seed sources you can choose from.

Bracket types

  • Single elimination — lose once and you're out.
  • Double elimination — a Winners and a Losers bracket; you're out after your second loss. The Grand Final can include a reset game if the Losers-bracket finalist wins the first one.
  • Round robin + bracket — a group stage seeds players/teams into a playoff.

Byes are filled automatically when the entry count isn't a power of two, and an optional third-place match can be added.

Seeding

Seeding decides who plays whom in round one — typically strongest vs weakest. Skoryd ranks entrants by average PPR (gross throwing production), which is a better skill signal than raw win count, then places them into the bracket using a snake seed so the strongest and weakest are kept apart early.

Seed sources

When you generate the bracket you pick where the seeding numbers come from, using one dropdown of options grouped by source:

  • This event's round robin — seed the playoff from the group-stage results (the default for RR + bracket).
  • Skill rating (SSR) — seed by each player's Skoryd Skill Rating, an opponent-strength-based skill number rather than raw production. A player's singles and doubles ratings are blended into one number so anyone with a rating gets seeded.
  • This club — overall results across the club.
  • Quick Play — casual-play results.
  • Previous leagues / tournaments — a recent completed event at this club (bounded to the last ~90 days so the list stays short).
  • Global — results across all clubs (good for an open, cross-club tournament).
  • Seasons — a season's standings, either a club season or a global season.

Entrants with no history in the chosen source seed at the bottom.

Note

The bracket seeding and the round-robin matchup order are chosen separately — seeding the playoff doesn't change how the group-stage games were ordered. You can also order matchups by registration order, by seed, or randomly.

Bracket play format

The bracket doesn't have to be played in the same format as the round robin. On the generate page, Bracket play format lets you pick Singles or Doubles for the playoff whatever the group stage was:

  • Singles round robin → doubles bracket — players qualify individually, then get paired into teams for the playoff (see Pairing method below).
  • Doubles round robin → singles bracket — the teams break up and each player advances on their own, seeded by their individual results.
  • Same format both phases — the normal case. A fixed-partner doubles event keeps its registered partners in the bracket.

Bracket matches show the teams or players that actually played them, so a doubles bracket lists both partners on the scorer, the results page, and the podium even though the event itself was set up as singles.

Note

Because everyone qualifies as an individual in a singles round robin, a doubles bracket needs an even number of players advancing — the generate page sizes the bracket in teams and selects twice that many players.

Pairing method (doubles brackets from individuals)

When a doubles bracket is built from individual players who don't have fixed partners — a singles event turned into a doubles bracket, or a Partner Switch event (partners rotated all tournament, so there are no permanent teams) — the generate page asks how to form the teams:

  • Balanced (snake) — strongest with weakest (seed 1 + seed N, seed 2 + seed N−1, …), for even teams.
  • Stacked — seed 1 + seed 2, seed 3 + seed 4, … (the top players team up).
  • Split — the field is halved and each top-half player is paired with the matching bottom-half player (with 8: 1+5, 2+6, 3+7, 4+8).
  • Blind draw — random pairs.

Balanced, stacked, and split rank the field by the seed source above, so load seed stats first. (A regular fixed-partner doubles event keeps the partners set on the event, so it doesn't show this.)

Bracket dates

The generate page asks which day (or days) the bracket is played on, so it shows real dates on the schedule instead of "Date TBD":

  • Tournaments list the event's own dates with the ones left after the round robin already ticked. Tick or untick days as you like — bracket rounds are spread evenly across the days you pick. If the round robin ran all the way to the last day, the bracket defaults to that same day.
  • Leagues don't have a fixed date list, so you pick one day for the bracket. It defaults to a week after the last round-robin match.

You can always adjust individual match dates afterwards on the schedule editor.

Regenerating the bracket

If a bracket comes out wrong — wrong format, wrong size, or seeded before the last round-robin scores were in — an organizer can use Delete bracket on the event page. That removes only the bracket; the round-robin matches and their scores are kept, so you can generate a new bracket straight away.

Heads up

Delete schedule is the bigger hammer — it removes every match in the event, round-robin games included. Use Delete bracket when you only want the playoff back.

During the bracket

Winners advance automatically as matches are approved; in double elimination, a loss (including a forfeit) drops the team into the Losers bracket. The bracket page shows the live state, and a finished bracket match returns you to the bracket view rather than the event page.

Forfeits

A forfeit ends that player's or team's event — they can't get back in. Whoever was still standing wins the match and moves on as normal.

In the Grand Final of a double-elimination bracket, that decides the whole event:

  • Losers-bracket finalist forfeits → the Winners-bracket finalist is champion.
  • Winners-bracket finalist forfeits → the Losers-bracket finalist is champion, and the reset game is not played. There's no decider to play against someone who has withdrawn.

Either way the podium and the final standings show the same champion, and the event can be completed straight away.

Note

Forfeited by mistake? An organizer can reopen the match from the ⋮ menu in the scorer and score it properly — see Confirming & disputing scores.

Once a bracket exists, the event page's standings table is labelled Round-robin standings — it stays the qualifying record that decided the seeding, and doesn't change as bracket games are played. The bracket's own games are listed underneath in Bracket results, and the final placings appear on the podium when the event completes. The Match Scores page keeps the two phases in separate sections for the same reason: bracket round 1 isn't round-robin round 1.

Reading the bracket

The bracket is drawn like a printed paper bracket, with connector lines running from each match into the next. In double elimination the Winner's Bracket sits on top, the Loser's Bracket below, and the Grand Final on the right.

  • Match numbers — each match has a small number in its left corner.
  • Empty slots name where the player will come from rather than showing a blank — e.g. "Winner of #7" or, in the Losers bracket, "Loser of #7" so you can trace where a losing team drops in.
  • Every match keeps a fixed spot, so the layout doesn't jump around as games finish. On a phone, the bracket scrolls sideways.