Tiebrake documentation

What is Tiebrake

A one-page overview of what the app does and who it's for.

How Tiebrake schedules fairly

An algorithmic solver builds the season so everyone rotates through everyone, game counts stay balanced, and breaks are spread evenly — not a manual guess.

Play every week, or just some of them

Set each player's own target — a full season, 50%, or any specific number of games — and combine it with their personal unavailable weeks; the solver plans around both at once.

Taking part without registering

Your invite link is enough to join, submit availability and see your schedule — no password or email required.

Registering for convenience (optional)

Add a password and email if you want to log in later without the invite link, e.g. on a new device.

Joining a club via an invite link

What an invite link does, linking it to an existing account, and setting a password.

Logging in and out

Where your session is stored and what logging out clears.

Clubs, members and roles

The difference between a club Admin and a Member, at a glance.

Your privacy in a club

Other members never see your phone number or email — only your name. Club admins can, so they can reach you.

The life of a season

Draft, published, archived — what each status means for you as a player.

Marking weeks you can't play

How to submit your unavailable weeks and what happens after the deadline.

The submission window and deadline

Why submissions can be closed, and what it means if an admin submits for you.

Viewing “My Matches”

Where to see every match across every club and season you're part of.

Reading week labels and match times

Why a week's date can shift once the schedule is published.

Requesting to be excused from a week

Posting a request when you already know you can't make a scheduled week.

Replace vs. swap offers

The two ways another player can respond to an open request, and what each changes.

Accepting an offer

What happens the moment a trade is accepted — schedule, calendar feeds, other pending offers.

Cancelling a request

How to withdraw a request you posted, and what happens to offers already made on it.

Subscribing vs. downloading a file

Live sync (webcal) vs. a one-time .ics snapshot — and why they drift apart.

Your one calendar feed, wherever you subscribe from

The subscribe button on a season page, on “My matches” and on your account are all the same personal feed — plus the separate, admin-run club feed.

Differences between calendar apps

How Google, Apple and Outlook calendars each refresh a subscribed feed, and the side effects that follow.

Regenerating your calendar link

Why you'd do this, and that it immediately invalidates every calendar app already subscribed.

Switching your language

Where the setting lives, and how it follows you across devices once you're logged in.

Managing your account

Name, contact details, password, avatar, design and your calendar feed.

Product tour and appearance

Replaying the guided tour, light/dark mode, and choosing a design.

What club admins can do

A feature overview for club administrators — roster, season setup, the fair-scheduling solver, requests.

Plans and subscriptions

What a plan unlocks, how Hobby, Starter and Pro differ — and that players never pay.

Platform-level operations

A feature overview for platform operators — full guides are for logged-in admins only.