Play every week, or just some of them

Not everyone wants — or is able to — play every single week. Tiebrake doesn't assume full participation; it's set per player.

A club admin sets each player's own game target for a season: the full schedule, roughly half of it, or any exact number of games that adds up correctly across the roster. That means a core group playing every week and a few occasional players who only want a handful of games can be part of the exact same season, on the exact same court booking, without anyone manually working around the mismatch.

The other half of the picture is your own unavailable weeks — holidays, work travel, anything that rules out specific weeks in advance. You mark those yourself (see Marking weeks you can't play), and the solver plans your target number of games entirely around them. A player with a 50% target and three unavailable weeks still gets a schedule built around both constraints at once, not one applied on top of the other by hand.

The result: casual and committed players share one fair schedule, instead of a separate spreadsheet for each.