Basketball Tournaments
Run a basketball league in CloudMonet: pick the squads, generate the fixtures, score each game live or enter its result, and the standings and leaders update as games finish.
Set up a tournament
Create it
Open Tournaments in the workspace sidebar, click New tournament and choose Basketball. Give it a name.
Pick the squads
Tick each squad taking part. A squad is a team's roster (up to 15 players, with jersey numbers and positions); each game picks who starts from it. Click New squad to add one without leaving the dialog. You can paste a team list, one player per line.
Choose how the table is ranked
Pick FIBA, NBA style or College style, or open Change the details to set your own:
- Rank the table by table points or win percentage.
- Table points for a win, a loss, no result and a forfeit. FIBA's are 2 for a win, 1 for a loss and 0 for a forfeit.
- Tiebreakers, in the order they apply: head-to-head, head-to-head point difference, point difference, points scored, points allowed, points quotient and wins. Reorder them with the arrows.
The table below explains the rule in plain words as you change it.
Forfeits, leaders and game rules
- Forfeits are recorded as a win for the other side at a score you set (20–0 by default). They count for points scored and allowed.
- Leaders are ordered per game or by total. Per game needs a minimum number of games played, so one big night doesn't top the list. Leave it empty to use half the games the busiest team has played.
- Game rules are what every game started from a fixture plays by: period length, shot clock, timeouts and fouls. Pick a preset (FIBA, NBA, college, club) or set your own. You can still change them for a single game.
The tournament opens in its Tournament Center.
Fixtures
On the Fixtures tab, generate a round-robin (every squad plays every other once, or home and away), split the squads into pools first, or add fixtures one at a time. Set each fixture's date, time and venue from its ••• menu.
Playing a fixture
Click Start game on a fixture. The two squads are fixed and the tournament's rules are filled in. Pick who starts for each side and create the game. You can then:
- Score it live from its Match Center or the scorer's phone. When you record the final, the result goes into the tournament.
- Enter the result from the fixture instead: a final score (with the points in each quarter, if you have them, which also records overtime), a forfeit (who won it), or not played.
A game scored live keeps its player stats, which feed the leaders. A result entered by hand has the score only, so it counts for the standings but not for the leaders.
If you undo the final, or delete the game, the standings drop it.
The Table and Leaders tabs
The Table tab shows played, won, lost, win percentage, points for and against, point difference, current streak and the last five results. With pools, each pool has its own table. The Leaders tab lists points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks and three-pointers made. Switch between per game and total at the top.
Tournament graphics read the tournament's feed, so a graphic you add under Graphics updates as games finish. Ready-made basketball standings, fixtures and leaders graphics are not available yet.