Good Game Sports
Cream of the Crop

Create a Cream of the Crop event

Cream of the Crop runs as a League across multiple dates, or as a Single Day Event. Players register individually, and partners change every game.

Create from CourtReserve

Use this when the event already exists in CourtReserve and registrations should stay linked.

Before you start: club admin access in Good Game Sports (owner or staff), CourtReserve admin access, and a CourtReserve plan that includes API access (Advance or Momentum). If the integration is not connected, complete Enable API access in CourtReserve and Connect CourtReserve first.

  1. Open your club page, go to Settings, then Integrations, and click CourtReserve. Once CourtReserve is connected, this opens CourtReserve Events.

  2. Find your event under Unpublished. Events sync from 2 days in the past to 100 days in the future.

  3. Click + Create Event on GGS.

  4. Set Event Type to League or Single Day Event, Type to Doubles, and Format to Cream of the Crop.

  5. Click Create Event.

An event created directly in Good Game Sports cannot be linked to CourtReserve later. If you want registration sync, start from CourtReserve.

Create directly in Good Game Sports

  1. On your club page, click Create event (or Create Event next to the search bar on the Events tab).

  2. Enter the Event Name and set Event Type to League or Single Day Event.

  3. Set Format to Cream of the Crop.

  4. Fill in Location Details and Date and Time.

  5. Choose your Registration Type and pricing, then continue.

  6. On the divisions step set Division Type to Doubles and confirm the format.

  7. Complete the description sections, then create the event.

Add players

Players enter individually; there is no partner to record. Import a spreadsheet, use + Add Players, or sync from CourtReserve.

For CourtReserve-linked events, go to the Players tab and tap the refresh icon next to Last synced from CourtReserve (Sync from CourtReserve). See Sync players into an event.

Any number of players from 4 up can play, so you don't need to cap registration at a particular count. See Player counts for Cream of the Crop for the courts each count produces.

Courts

Every court plays at the same time, so set the courts you have on the division. Cream of the Crop never builds more courts than that. With a big turnout on few courts, it makes bigger courts (6 or 7 players) at the bottom instead of adding courts.

Review Cream of the Crop Settings

On the event settings page, open Cream of the Crop Settings to set:

  • Group Size Priority: whether courts of 4 (the default) or courts of 5 play on top when the count isn't a multiple of 4.

  • Partner Match Configuration: 1 Match per Partner (the default) or 2 Matches per Partner, which plays each court's schedule twice.

  • Game Scoring: an optional play-to and win-by target for each court size.

  • Absence Penalty (leagues): on by default. Players keep their place when they miss a game day; with the penalty on, each missed day after the first drops them 2 places.

Standings sort by win percentage, then average point differential, across the whole event. Courts are formed by finishing place in the last round, so the table won't always match the court order. Changing the standings sort reorders the table but not the courts. See How Standings Are Calculated.

For leagues, set up the season

Add your play dates. See Managing rounds and dates in Ladder formats.

Configure the opt-in deadline. Each round is built from the players opted in for that date, and the Absence Penalty counts a missed date only when the player didn't opt in. See League opt-in.

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