Generating the bracket after Round Robin

Use this after the round robin is finished and you are ready to create the knockout bracket. The bracket seeds from the current standings, so your standings rules and any incomplete matches directly affect the result.

Generate the bracket

1. Open the Knockout tab for the division.

2. Tap the admin menu.

3. Select Generate Bracket.

4. Review the completion warning if any round robin matches are still unscored.

5. Choose how teams should advance.

6. Confirm to generate the bracket.

For the standings rules that determine seeds, see How Standings Are Calculated and How to Modify Tiebreakers.

Choose how teams advance

The generate dialog gives you four ways to build the bracket.

Finals + Third Place Only

This takes the top 4 teams overall across all groups and creates semifinals, a final, and a third-place match. Use this when you want a short finish instead of a full knockout bracket.

• Semifinals are seeded 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3.

• The semifinal winners move to the final.

• The semifinal losers move to the third-place match automatically.

Pick Number of Teams Per Group

This advances the same number of teams from every group. If you choose top 2 and you have 4 groups, the bracket will include 8 teams.

This is the best option when you want equal representation from each group.

Pick Total Number of Teams

This advances the best teams overall across the division until the bracket is full. It does not require each group to send the same number of teams.

Use this when you want the strongest overall field, even if one group sends more teams than another.

Pick All Teams

This puts every team into the knockout bracket. The bracket size rounds up to the next power of 2, so 6 teams become an 8-team bracket with 2 byes.

How seeding works

Seeds come from the current division standings. Your primary sort, secondary tiebreaker, and tertiary tiebreaker determine who becomes seed 1, seed 2, and so on.

Once teams qualify, the bracket uses standard tournament seeding. The highest seed plays the lowest seed, the second-highest seed plays the next-lowest seed, and the two best seeds can only meet in the final.

For more detail on seed order and byes in bracket play, see How seeding and byes work in bracket formats.

Avoiding early rematches between groups

When you use Pick Number of Teams Per Group or Pick Total Number of Teams with multiple groups, the app does not simply seed teams straight down the standings list. It uses alternating group seeding to spread teams from the same group across the bracket.

The system takes the best available team, then rotates to the next group for the next seed, and continues through the groups in order. This helps prevent teams from the same group meeting again in the first round.

If the bracket includes byes, the app also checks whether two same-group teams that received byes would meet too early in the next round. If needed, it swaps their bracket positions while keeping their seed order intact.

How the bronze match works

A bronze match is created automatically when the bracket has two real semifinals with no byes in those semifinal matchups. You do not need to add it manually.

• The loser of semifinal 1 goes into one side of the bronze match.

• The loser of semifinal 2 goes into the other side.

• If a semifinal includes a bye, the bronze match is skipped.

• You can score the bronze match like any other bracket match.

• If you do not want to play it, you can leave it unscored. It does not block the final.

How byes work

If the number of qualifying teams is not a power of 2, the bracket adds byes automatically. The field expands to the next bracket size, such as 4, 8, 16, or 32 slots.

Bye matchups resolve automatically before the bracket is saved, so teams with byes advance into their first real match without manual scoring.

For examples and bracket-size rules, see How seeding and byes work in bracket formats.

Clear and generate again

If you need to correct pool play results, change the advancing teams, or use a different bracket option, clear the bracket and generate it again.

1. Open the admin menu.

2. Select Clear Knockout Bracket.

3. Confirm.

4. Select Generate Bracket again.

Clearing the bracket removes knockout matches only. Pool play results stay in place. After the bracket is complete, see Viewing Final Placements. If you are using a full double elimination workflow instead, see Generating a double elimination bracket.