The Ladder competition format has been presented by KNLTB, The Netherlands. What is a Ladder system?

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This format sees all players placed in a ladder, one on top of the other. Players challenge each other. If a player lower down the ladder beats a higher placed player, they change places – the lower, winning player moving up the ladder. TIME PLAYERS / COURTS SINGLES / DOUBLES 1 session or 1 day 10-20 players per ladder Singles AGES TEAM / INDIVIDUAL OBJECTIVE 9/10 years or older Individual Competitive Structure of a Ladder competition The following are some key tips for organisers: COURTS AND PLAYERS A maximum of 20 players per ladder is recommended. If more than 20 players, create a Division 1 Ladder and a Division 2 Ladder.

SCORING Choose a scoring format. Best of 3 tiebreak sets works well. Players score their own matches. SCORESHEETS A ladder is displayed in the club showing all the player names, when players win a match against somebody above them – they switch places on the ladder. A notice board can be used to display the ladder or a purpose mde ladder created. ORDER OF PLAY The organiser should set a start and finish date for the ladder, giving at least 3-4 months in time e.g start on 1 May and finish on 1 September.

Players must organise with other players to play matches in their own time. Players challenge each other in order to move up the ladder. As an example, for a ladder that has 20 players, 20th-15th place can challenge players a maximum of 4 places above them, 15th - 5th placed players can challenge players 3 places above and 4th-1st can challenge 2 places above. Players should not refuse a challenge from a player below. If players continue to refuse challenges or are unable to play matches they should be removed from the ladder or moved down a set number of places. It is important to encourage competition at all times and highlight the benefits of playing everyone within the ladder system. AT THE END The winner is the person at the top of the ladder on the finish date the organiser set.

If the organiser is running a number of ladders, the top 3 players in ladder could each be promoted and the bottom 3 relegated. This is similar to how league competitions work. ADVANTAGE The advantages of both previous systems are combined in this system. On the top there is a very clear rank order visible. In this system it is possible to place a lot of players. DISADVANTAGE Like all the other challenge systems, this system depends on the involvement and participation of the players.

Timescale – The players choose who and when they are going to play. The challenge systems are generally drafted so that they can be played over a long period of time. Participants – maximum 60. This is combination of both previous systems: a pyramid with on top a small ladder. On the bottom part the rules for the pyramid system apply. For the ‘chimney’ the rules for the ladder system apply (not challenging more than two ranks up). Adapting the Format Many formats can easily be adapted to suit players e.g.

Aged 10-and-under, mixed ages, teams and to be a more or less competitive event. To understand more about how to adapt competition to suit to the needs and lifestyles of the player,. Applying Themes Many competitions are more fun and easier to promote if they have a theme such as Davis Cup, Olympics or Family Day attached. To understand more about how to apply themes to competitions,.

EXAMPLE Ladder Competition Click below under 'Related Links' for an example Ladder Competition format, including a sample to use.

I created Excel templates for saving sports results. There are many variants of tournament: 3 – 16 teams in each group. The number of groups is not limited. Each group is on a separate sheet. It contains a list of teams, the schedule and it automatically generates the table. Settings – team names For changing the team names just edit the table “Team name”. The changes will be reflected in the Schedule and in the Table.

Settings – points for a win, a loss and a draw File contains sheet named Options. There you can set the points. The changes will apply to the entire file. Settings – how to add more groups In each file are 4 groups. If you want to add another group, copy one of the sheets and rename it (For example copy sheet named GroupD and rename it to GroupE).

If you want to remove some of the group, just delete the group sheet. Automatically generated table You have to fill the score of each match and the table will be automatically sorted by number of points. There are no Excel macros, just an array formula and lookup function. The table calculates: GP – Games Played W – wins D – draws L – loss GF – Goals For GA – Goals Against GD – Goal Difference PTS – points Bonus/penalty points You can give a bonus or penalty points to the each team. For example: team2 has 9 bonus points and team4 has 10 penalty points. This will be automatically calculated to the final table.

League schedule template Template for 9 – 16 teams can be used as the league schedule. Rounds are separated in different color. How to update and create more teams template Do you need some modifications?

Try it yourself There is the video guide how to update 3 teams template to 4 teams template. Free download MS Excel files 3 teams in each group: 4 teams in each group: 5 teams in each group: 6 teams in each group: 7 teams in each group: 8 teams in each group: 9 teams in each group: 10 teams in each group: 11 teams in each group: 12 teams in each group: 13 teams in each group: 14 teams in each group: 15 teams in each group: 16 teams in each group: Edit. I improved the formula so that it took into account the goal difference.

Thanks Bert for inspiration. In the next few days, I will add other versions with a different number of teams. The schedule has now 4 rounds. Each team can play with others twice as home and twice as visitor. So you can use this template for some kind of sport league (basketball, football, ice hockey, volleyball, ) Edit. 14 teams template added - bonus/penalty points feature - ranking improved - if points and goal difference are equal, then ranking is based on goals scored - schedule in 10, 12 and 14 teams template is now prepared to be a league – each round is separated by a color Edit. 9 teams template added Edit.

3 teams template added - 11 teams template added Edit. 13 teams template added - 15 teams template added Edit. 16 teams template added Edit. video help “How to update this template”.

The Mattam League December 23, 2017 at 11:33 pm If it’s a cup competition you need, there’s a way to create one. If you’re familiar with using the “=” in Excel, you can create 32 fixtures, then 16, then 8 and so on by simply “equalling” the list where you type your team names in, multiple times. It can be done all the way to the cup final. Once you’ve built your fixtures list (32s, 16s, 8s etc) you need to create a mini league of the 2 teams who are playing in each fixture. There are youtube videos that explain “RANK” and “VLOOKUP”. If each fixture has an equalled winner, the next round can be drawn automatically. All you need to do is type team names in and stick the scores in!

You can have 2-legged games, replays and penalty shoot outs. Difficult to explain in this reply but gimme a shout if you need an Excel file with this system already created. Or I can make a special one for you. Cheers Matt. Lev Baddley October 28, 2017 at 11:12 am I’m looking for a spreadsheet to create fixtures in a swimming league with 6, 7 or ‘n’ number of teams entering. Each team has one home gala against 3 other teams and will play against the other teams an even number of times or as close as.

For a 7 team league each club would play the others twice in a season at various venues, once at home and three times at away clubs. So for a 7 team league the grid would have 7 columns and 5 rows – the top row being the header for each home gala and the rows for the lane numbers – 1 to 4.

Is there a formula that would create a fixture list such as this that can be adapted according to the number of teams who enter each year? Regards Lev Baddley. Javier Ortega September 18, 2017 at 5:27 am I love the template, but would like to know if there is an easy way to adapt to my league’s 10 point system: 6 = win 3 = tie 0 = loss 1 point per goal UP TO 3 goals per game. 1 point for a shot out (opponent left at “0″) So for example, Team A plays Team B, the score is 5:0 Team A gets 10 points (6 points for the win, 3 points for the goals, 1 point for the shot out). Team B gets 0 points.

Another example, Team C plays Team D, the score is 2:1 Team C gets 8 points (6 points for the win, 2 points for the goals). Team B gets 1 point (1 point for the goal). Example 3, Team E plays Team F, the score is 5:5 Both teams get 6 points (3 points for the tie, 3 points for the goals). Is there a way to adapt the point system to meet this criteria? If so, would you be able to create it? Nigel Preece July 15, 2017 at 12:50 pm A neighbour of mine has just inherited management of a local darts league and the format is 16 teams in four divisions, each playing each other once, then the league splits into two with the top eight playing each other once for promotion and likewise the bottom eight for relegation.

At seasons end each team will have played 22 games. The league season has to be this short so as to fit in no less than three cup tournaments.

Is there such a template for a league that “does the splits” as I’ve described. We’ve managed to organise this in the past, albeit in a bit of a long winded way, but is there a simpler way of doing it. No great shakes if not. This is really a shot in the dark. Khaled Africa January 16, 2017 at 9:35 am Hi, i am busy organizing a cricket tournament, so that we can help kids find something to do instead of just wasting their time on the streets. I’m inviting 20 high schools, and it would be held over the space of a weekend.

Now, the 20 high schools would be divided into 4 groups of 5. Each team plays each other once in the group with the top 2 qualifying for Gold Quarter Final Section. Teams 3 and 4 qualifies for the Silver Quarter Final Section, with team 5 being knocked out unfortunately. After the Quarter Finals there will be a Semi-Final for each section and likewise a final for each section. We will be having scouts at the tourney and hopefully they can spot a few sport stars of the future. I came across your templates about a year ago, and find them to be the best (imho) i have found on the web. If anyone can create this, i know you canI wish you the greatest of success in your life and may only the best of doors open for you in the future.

Regards Khaled. Joachim January 16, 2017 at 11:17 am Hi Khaled, I can probably help you make this sheet and upload it to enterexceldotcom when I am done. However, I need you to answer a few questions first as I am not familiar with cricket. How do you rank teams that end up with equal points?

What kind of league table format will you need: Is “Played Wins Draws Losses Points” enough? How do you select quarter-final opponents? Group A winner vs Group B runner-up, Group C winner vs Group D runner up etc. Or do you have a more creative format in mind? Br, Joachim Enter Excel. Khaled Africa January 19, 2017 at 7:14 am Hi If you are from the US, Cricket would be similar to Baseball with totally different rules lol. There generally aren’t Draws in Cricket.

There arebut very rarely, win/lose/draw should be fine – 3-1-0 being the general standard, but we can add an extra dimension we can sayfor every 10 runs scored, We can give a 1 point bonus. So if team A vs team B and team A wins the match, they would get say 3 point and because they scored 100 runs they would get an extra 10 point giving them 13 point in total, team B lost in a close encounter, scoring 98 runs, so they would get no points for the loss but still get 9 points because they score 98 runs.

Group A winner vs Group B runner-up, Group C winner vs Group D runner up etc, would be fine to select the Knock Out Rounds. Regards Khaled. Joachim January 11, 2017 at 8:47 am Have uploaded the 18-teams double round robin now.

I have randomized the matches. If you would like a defined setup like team1 vs team2, team3 vs team4 etc or just choose matches yourself, let me know. League table is ranked by the following order: 1) points 2) goal difference 3) goals scored 4) internal points/goal difference in matches between teams in question 5) pre-season rank (which you can manually enter in column D) Let me know if it works ok. Cheers, Joachim. Mrkky December 22, 2016 at 4:01 pm Hi – Yes pretty good.

Prob i got is i need to manually move the fixtures around so they in current order. On the blank one on here i managed to edit the fixtures copy and pasting to correct weeks. A lot of fixtures get moved from original weeks due to 2 teams at one venue etc and 1v2 3v4 etc i cant match up. Other than that its really good.

I did forget one thing – The total points (pts) is 2 for a win plus the GF so for example a 5-4 win would give team 7 points in total. Its a sum of GF PLUS GW (2 POINTS) Is it possible i can manually move the fixtures and if so how do i dontate for your time. Its really good though. Joachim December 22, 2016 at 4:34 pm Regarding the fixtures issue. I mean by the end of the season all players will have played each other 4 times.

So the list of fixtures in my sheet is correct, right? Just not in correct order?

I see two easy solutions and two a bit more tricky: 1) If you have the fixtures you could send them to me and I could plot them in (of course that doesnt help if a game is postponed) 2) I could add another “highlight player/team” option so it is easy for you to find a specific matchup and enter scores for that one and then you could enter the date/venue in the “notes” cell 3) I could just make the “matches” section blank and then you select from a dropdown menu which players faced each other and plot in the score. And I could add summary section where you could see the total of games each player has played.

4) I could expand the “matches” section and make you just cut/paste matches up and down in in Not sure if any of these alternatives solves your problem? Joachim January 17, 2017 at 6:17 pm Hi David, Could you just please try to show me an example here, for example one match and how the table would look after. Would it for instance look something like: Match 1: Team 1 vs Team 2 HOMEWIN League standings after match 1: 1) Team 1 Played 1 HomeWins 1 Homedraw 0 Homelosses 0 Awaywins 0 Awaydraws 0 AwayLosses 0 Points 3 2) Team 2 Played 2 HomeWins 0 Homedraw 0 Homelosses 0 Awaywins 0 Awaydraws 0 AwayLosses 1 Points 0 Sorry for the broken formatting, but not so easy with this comment section. If it looks anything like above I could probably fix it tomorrow Br, Joachim. David May 25, 2017 at 5:44 pm Hi Joachim Sorry for length of time replying however ended up manually altering tables until end of season. My issue was that when a team defaults and does not play a game, I have to award the game (ie the 3 points, without awarding any goals.

Problems are that if I have a match (Team A V Team B ) and Team B default, if I enter HomeWin in results columns it gives the points to TEAM B, should be Team A. I have discovered that if I enter WalkOver in results columns then it awards Win,Loss &Points correctly, but does not show the game as PLAYED for either team. Please see example below after one game with Team B defaulting. Premier DivisionGPWDLGFGAGDPTS Team A 01000 0 0 3 Team B 00010 0 0 0 I use 5 separate templates for 5 Divisions, number of teams is either 10 or 12 in each Division Thanks David. Michael Mwanja August 18, 2015 at 1:06 pm 1.I want a competition of 14 teams divided in to two pools of 7 teams each 2.Each pool will have games played on a home and away basis 3.Each team will play a cross over match once against each other team in the opposite pool 14 teams in two 7-team divisions, where each team plays the other 6 in its division exactly twice, and plays each team in the other division exactly once. I searched the web and got the attached result but not helpful.,if you dont mind in assisting the teams are below Region ARegion B 1.KCB1.Kabras 2.Strathmore2.Nakuru 3.Mwamba3.Impala 4.Homeboyz4.Nondies 5.Western Bulls5.Harlequins 6.Mean Machine6.Blakblad 7.Thika7.Sharks. Becky Cacciotti August 15, 2015 at 2:05 pm Hello, I am trying to create a double header schedule with 14 teams,each team plays 2 games vs a different opponent and each team has the same number of early, middle and late games approximately.

The sport is basketball and we have 2 courts. The league only plays on 4 sundays and each team only gets 4 games, so they wont even play everyone once. It would be great to have the doubleheaders back to back or with only one game in between. Any suggestions. I really need help.

Oyvind August 2, 2015 at 12:50 pm Hi I Have an idea for tourneys. Say you Have 12 players Which you give a number. Lets Say there will be 4 players on each team. Lets Say in game one nr 1-4-6-10 is to play 2-3-8-9. In game 2 the rest (5-7-11-12) meets a random draw of the other numbers. What i mean here is that there are no teams, but just players.

Players that are on winning teams the most will win the tourney. There are 2 tings to consider, a random draw of numbers, mening that there are new teammates for every game and that all players play the same amount of game. Is this possible to do in excel? Takk for any help. Jeff January 24, 2015 at 12:15 am Hi, This is a great spreadsheet and saved me a lot of hassle to get to this stage. Are you intending to add a facility for semi finals and finals at all?

I am organising a small squash tournament where there will be 2 groups of 6 with the top 2 of each group going to a semi final for the “cup” and the bottom 2 of each group going to a semi final of a “plate” and it would be good to show this progress too on the sheetI will probably be able to put together something, but wondered if you had considered this? Thanks, Jeff. DANCEY22 June 11, 2014 at 2:28 pm Hi, This is great for my son’s footy tournaments. I that saw you had a message on 12th May 2014 regards changing the formulae to take into account 2 points for score draw and 1 for 0-0 draw. I have seen other spreadsheets that enable amendments to be done to the points tally by adding or subtracting a point. The other sheets called them penalty points.

Could that be incorporated, if you haven’t been able to amend as per the request yet? If you have amended, could you let me have please.

Zeno January 14, 2014 at 11:55 pm My specific problem is that in your W cells you have: =SUM(($AG$3:$AG$8=V2).(ISNUMBER($AH$3:$AH$8));($AK$3:$AK$8=V2).(ISNUMBER($AJ$3:$AJ$8))) I tried to increase that array for 2nd leg and another 6 games. I widened array but I always get #VALUE! Error and I don’t understand why. I basically need this: =SUM(($AG$3:$AG$14=V2).(ISNUMBER($AH$3:$AH$14));($AK$3:$AK$14=V2).(ISNUMBER($AJ$3:$AJ$14))) But changing 8 to 14 keeps giving me error. Even visually the array seems fine. What am I doing wrong?

Zeno January 15, 2014 at 8:34 am Ok, now I’m spamming. I figured it all out and modified the table. Everything is working now except sorting on goal difference It will sort the teams on points but if two teams have same points, the table won’t compare goal difference so it can happen that -3 will be above +2. I believe it’s all sorted in formula: =X3.Options!$B$2+Y3.Options!$B$3+Z3.Options!$B$4 I just don’t know how to include another function that would first sort by points and if points are equal then it would sort by GD (column AC in my table). And sorry for spam, but this is the best sheet (out of 20 I tried) and I’m putting some efforts in it.

Ray Wesley November 18, 2013 at 6:19 pm Jan, A good sporting template in that the league table appears on the same page as the results. However, Hassan Abazari is correct to state that the goal difference problem needs to be resolved as outlined in his post of October 13th. Are you able to: 1-ensure teams/players with the same number of points are separated by goal difference and not alphabetically as appears to be the case? 2-are you able to provide templates for 14,16,18 and 20 teams? 3-are you able to provide a points deduction facility? 4-are you able to program the fixtures in order that for example 1 is at first home to 2 then away to 3 in it’s next game then home to 4 etc?

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I have noticed that some teams are playing 3 consecutive away games especially in the 12 team template? Certain amendments would only improve what is a superb template. If additions or amendments cannot be made then so be it.