LM: Head-to-Head as Tiebreaker

Head-to-head results can not be selected as a tie-breaker in the Standings Settings, and they probably never will be because three and four way head-to-head tiebreakers become pretty gnarly pretty quickly. However, this video discusses some ways to create head-to-head tiebreakers.

LM: Venue Groups

Coming soon!

See the bottom of the League Manager shortcodes man page for more info.

LM: Installing MSTW League Manager Add-ons

The installation process for the premium plugins is a bit different than for the free plugins on WordPress.org. This tutorial shows how to acquire the latest version of the plugin and install it as a .zip file.

LM: Overtime Games w/ LM Addons

The MSTW League Manager Addons plugin offers the option to “Auto-fill Standings”. With this setting, standings are automatically calculated, but until version 2.9 there was no way to include overtime games in these calculations. This tutorial which shows how to set a game as an overtime game, and how the points are calculated for a league’s standings.

The first part of this tutorial is available here.

LM: OT Games w/o LM Addons

Without the MSTW League Manager Addons plugin, that is, without “Auto-fill Standings” set, properly displaying overtime games’ impact on league’s standings is straightforward, because most of the calculations are manual. This tutorial shows how to enter team records and how they are displayed.

The second part of this tutorial is available here.

LM: Admin Roles & Functionality (2.9+)

Team and School administrators were added in version 2.9 to allow members of a website community to manage specific sets of games. Team Administrators (think coaches) can manage the games involving their team. school (or organization) administrators can manage the games involving any team in their school.

This tutorial focuses on the Team or School admin experience when he or she logs into the WordPress Admin Dashboard. In particular, how the game management functionality is restricted. This functionality requires the MSTW League Manager Add-ons plugin.

LM: Setting up Team & School Admins

Team and School administrators were added in version 2.9 to allow members of a website community to manage specific sets of games. Team Administrators (think coaches) can manage the games involving their team. school (or organization) administrators can manage the games involving any team in their school.

This tutorial focuses on the tasks the WordPress Website administrator must complete to enable this functionality. This functionality requires the MSTW League Manager Add-ons plugin.

LM: Customizing Multi-Team Schedules

This tutorial shows how to customize the multi-team schedule shortcode [mstw_multi_team_schedule] using CSS. In the process it explains why the custom stylesheets for most MSTW plugins are placed where they are in your sites WordPress file structure and why you should always create a child theme for your site.

LM: Managing “Meets” (v2.7+)

This tutorial shows how to manage “meets” on the admin screens and how to display them on the front end using the [mstw_league_schedule_3] and the [mstw_team_schedule_3] shortcodes. It is long, but it is a very thorough walk-through of the entire meet management process. This functionality requires the MSTW League Manager Add-ons plugin.

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LM: Create a Team with Home Venue

This tutorial shows you how to create a team with a home venue in the MSTW League Manager plugin.

Teams with home venues are created exactly the same way in the MSTW Bracket Builder (Premium Version) plugin. See also, the MSTW Bracket Builder Premium Version Quick Start man page.

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