What is Tiebrake

Tiebrake schedules a season of shared court time — tennis, padel, anything played on a fixed weekly booking — across a group that's bigger than the number of courts you've got.

If your club has a standing Tuesday slot and ten players who all want to use it, someone has to decide who plays which week. Tiebrake's solver does that for you: it builds a full-season schedule where everyone gets the number of games they signed up for, opponents rotate instead of repeating, and nobody's stuck with a long unbroken stretch of games or a long unbroken stretch of sitting out.

Once a season is published, everyone sees their own matches, can mark weeks they can't make, and can trade a week with a teammate if plans change. Admins run the season — set it up, generate the schedule, publish it, handle the edge cases. Everyone else mostly just shows up and checks their calendar.

Two kinds of people use Tiebrake:

• Players — see their schedule, report when they're unavailable, request or accept a swap.
• Club admins — set up the season, run the scheduler, manage the roster, and handle anything that needs a human decision.

The rest of this section gets you started either way.