How Round Robin (Set Partners) works
Standard Round Robin (Set Partners) is a round robin where teams register as fixed pairs and keep the same partner for the whole event. Every team plays the other teams in its group, and standings rank teams rather than individuals.
How it works
Players enter as a pair, not individually. That pairing is permanent for the event — the schedule never reassigns partners. Each round, your team is matched against another team, and your record accumulates as a team.
You choose how many times teams meet:
Single round robin — every team plays every other team in its group once
Double round robin — every team plays every other team twice
Custom rounds — you set the exact number of rounds
How it differs from Rotating Partners
Set Partners | Rotating Partners | |
|---|---|---|
Registration | Players enter as a pair | Players enter as individuals |
Partners | Same partner all event | New partner every round |
Groups contain | Teams | Individual players |
Group editing | You move partner pairs together | You move individual players |
Standings rank | Teams | Individual players |
Cross-group play | Supported | Not available |
If your players are signing up alone and you want them mixing, use Rotating Partners instead.
Key rules
Singles or doubles. Unlike the rotating partner formats, this one genuinely supports both. In a doubles division teams are pairs; in a singles division each player is their own team.
Partners come from the roster. Teams are built from each player's partner information. In a doubles division, any players left without a partner are paired automatically, and if one player is left over they are entered as a single-player team.
Groups are pools of teams. Splitting into groups gives each team a smaller field to play through. By default teams only play inside their own group.
Cross-group play is optional. Turn it on and the app treats every group as one combined pool when building matches, so teams can face opponents from other groups while still being ranked within their own group. This lets you seed teams into pools for standings but keep the matchups varied.
Byes come from odd team counts. A round pairs teams two at a time, so if a group has an odd number of teams one team sits each round. Restricting to your court count adds byes as well.
Standings rank teams. Because the partnership is fixed, the team is the unit — wins, losses and point stats belong to the pair, and final placements are per team.
Adding a playoff bracket
This format ends when pool play ends. If you want the round robin to seed a knockout bracket instead, pick one of the Round Robin to… formats at creation — Single Elimination, Double Elimination, or Compass. Those run the same pool play and then add a bracket stage.