Getting started with Ladder League
A Ladder League (previously called Switch Ladder League) is a weekly league where players move up or down a court based on how they finish. Two versions:
Ladder League: individuals; partners rotate within your court each week
Ladder League (Set Partners): fixed pairs, same partner all season (previously Switch Ladder League (Teams))
Start with How Ladder League works for how the ladder works.
Season steps
1. Create the event. Ladder Leagues are always League events. See Create a Ladder League event.
2. Set your play dates and opt-in deadline before generating anything. The deadline counts back from each date. See Managing rounds and dates in Ladder formats and League opt-in.
3. Generate week 1. Choose how to seed the starting order: Random, By DUPR Rating, By Standings, From a Previous Event, or By Event Rank (Ladder League only). See Generate rounds in Ladder League.
4. Score the week. See Scoring matches in Ladder formats.
5. Generate the next week. Movement applies, ladder ranks are rewritten, and courts are rebuilt. See How movement works in Ladder League.
6. Correct the ladder when needed. See Adjust the ladder by hand.
Repeat steps 4 to 6 each week.
Good to know before you start
Ladder rank is division-wide, not per court. There is one 1..N order across every court, and courts can be uneven, so you can't read someone's court from their rank.
Nothing moves until something is scored. Generating the next round from an unscored week just repeats the current ladder.
Absences are forgiving at first. By default one missed day is free and each further missed day drops a player 2 spots. You can change both numbers, and count the drop in courts instead of spots. Byes never count.
Moving one player by hand holds only that player, for one round. Their row shows Held at this spot and everyone else keeps moving on results.
In Ladder League (Set Partners) with Individual Game Wins scoring, score game by game. A match without per-game scores earns neither team any game wins. If other courts have results, the two teams on that court are still ranked by tiebreakers and can move up or down, so enter per-game scores for every match.
Settings that shape the league
Most format settings live in Event Settings → Ladder League Configuration, set per division.
Setting | Effect |
|---|---|
Player Movement | How many players move up or down at each court boundary each week. Default 2 |
Absence Penalty | On by default; set free missed days, the drop per missed day after that, and Spots or Courts |
Group Size Priority | Whether courts of 4 (default) or of 5 sit at the top |
The same panel also holds Partner Match, When a Substitute Plays, and optional Game Scoring targets per group size. Whether wins count as matches or individual games is set separately under Scoring Configuration. For every option and its default, see Ladder League Configuration settings.
Ladder League has no Bye Mode setting. Courts flex between 4 and 6 players, so byes are rare and assigned automatically.
Shared ladder tools
These work the same across all the ladder formats: