Editing groups in Ladder formats
After you start a ladder round, review the groups before play begins. Group editing is where you fix assignments, move players, add late opt-ins, and adjust format-specific settings.
Open the group editor
Tap the admin button.
Select Edit Groups.
Review each court or group and its assigned players or teams.
The editor also opens automatically after Start Games.
Move players or teams
Click the group number dropdown to the left of a player or team.
Select the group where you want to move them.
Tap + to add a group.
Tap X on an empty group to remove it.
Use search to find a specific player.
Tap Save Changes when you are done.
Add players or teams to a group
Use Add Players when someone was left out of the generated matches and you need to place them into a group manually.
Open Edit Groups.
Click Add Players.
Find the player or team in the list.
Select the group where they should be added.
Save your changes.
This list usually includes players who were already opted out, or players who opted in after matches were generated. In team formats, you can add teams the same way.
[!SUCCESS] If player counts increase between rounds, Ladder formats now rebalance into the correct number of groups when the next round is generated. For example, if 17 players were split into 4 groups in one round and 22 players opt in for the next round, the next round creates 5 groups instead of forcing all 22 players into the same 4 groups.
[!INFO] If you use One group per court, group creation stays locked to your court count.
Remove players from active groups
Click the red - button to remove a player from the Active Players tab. Good Game Sports moves that player into the Add Players tab automatically.
Removing a player also updates their event status:
In a league, the player is opted out.
In a single-day event or tournament, the player is checked out.
Use this when a player can no longer play in the current round and you want them available to re-add later if needed.
Ladder League group settings
Ladder League Individual includes a number of switches setting for each group. This controls how many matches each partnership plays before partners rotate.
Choose 1x, 2x, or 3x.
Changing one group updates other groups of the same size.
These options are available in Ladder League Individual only. They are not available for Ladder League Teams yet.
Reorder players within a group
In Humpty Dumpty Individual and Up and Down the River Individual, you can drag players within a group to change matchups and partner pairings. Team-based formats keep fixed teams together, so in-group player reordering does not apply.
For Ladder League, to set a player's or team's ladder position for the upcoming week, change their rank here in Edit Groups (team ladders always set order this way). Ladder League Individual admins can also drag to reorder directly in the Standings. See Ladder League.
Regenerate after editing a group
If you add players to a new group and regenerate, existing matches in other groups stay in place. Regeneration no longer clears matches from other groups that were already set up.
Manual ladder-rank changes are also preserved. When you hand-set a Ladder League order — in Edit Groups, or by dragging in the Standings for a Ladder League Individual ladder — generating the next round respects that order instead of recomputing movement over it, so your edit sticks. This applies to both Ladder League Individual and Ladder League Teams. Once a week's matches are generated, its order is locked; change it in Edit Groups.
When to edit groups
Use the editor right after starting games so you can fix issues before anyone begins play. If you need to create the round first, see Starting games in Ladder formats. If player availability is changing between league dates, see League opt-in. For court-specific setup, see Court management in Ladder formats.