Season Settings is where you begin when setting up a new season:

• Entering Master Dates for the regular season
• Turning postseason features on or off
• Entering Master Dates for the postseason if applicable
• Selecting the day you want to receive the League Activity Report email
• Controlling Division Standings listings on DCTV

• Click on the seven “New Season” steps to make sure settings are properly configured for:
  • Season Settings
  • Divisions
  • Post Season Groups
  • Teams
  • Players
• Run step 7, “Run Division Report” to quickly review a summary of all division settings

Navigation:

• Master Dates: Click in any date field to open a calendar for selecting specific dates
• Division Standings: Enter league points and use drop down menus to set primary ranking and tie-breaker settings

Features:

• DartConnect Agreement: These are the boundary dates of your season and reflect when season access is turned on and when season access is turned off.
• Regular Season:  This date reflects the first day that regular season matches can begin and provides access to the league inside the app for league members.
• Do you have a Post Season: Use this drop down to show/hide post season features in the Portal and DCTV.
• Post Season: This date reflects the first day that post season matches can begin and provides access to the league inside the app.
• League Activity Report Day: Sets the delivery day for the league activity report to be sent via email to league administrators. (Most leagues set this for the day after standard league night)
• Division Standings: Control how your league’s Division Standings are displayed on DCTV, including tie-breaker rules.

• DartConnect Agreement: DartConnect will set these dates based on your season request
• Regular Season: Enter the first day that regular season matches will begin
• Use the drop down to designate if your league conducts post-season playoffs or not
• Post-Season: Enter the first day that post-season matches will begin
• Note: Override dates can be set in the Division Settings to accomodate divisions whose start/end is different from the Master Dates

• Here you can choose the day that the weekly activity report is delivered to your email
• Reports will show weekly activity with the week ending the day before your selection

• Enter expected league points per match (can be customized by division in the Division Edit page)
• Select your primary ranking (League Points/Win-Loss Record/None)
• Select up to four tie-breakers in order of preference

Divisions is where you can review your division list, add new divisions or edit the settings for existing divisions.

Review the support information in this section to learn how to:

• Learn how to read and navigate the Division List
• Create or edit:
  • Division name and other information
  • Inter-division play if needed
  • Division-specific game menu
  • Division-specific match format

• Use red “Add Division” button to create new divisions
• Use search function to find a specific division

Introduction

Navigation:

• Click on any header in Divisions List to sort column
• Blue Spy Glass = Access Division Edit page
• Click Team Roster Count to Access Division Team List

Features:

• DCID: DartConnect automatically assigns a unique ID for each division
• Order: By default, divisions are listed alphabetically. Edit “Display Order” in Division Edit page to adjust a division’s position in the list
• Rollup: If your league has multiple divisions and sub-divisions, use “Rollup” settings in Division Edit page to associate divisions into division groups
• Teams: See number of active teams in the division. Click team count to review a division’s team list
• Post Season: If your league has post-season play, every division should be associated with a Post-Season Group. Assign this in the Post Season Group Edit page.

Edit / Create Division

• Enter or change a division name
• Display Order: By default, divisions are listed alphabetically. Use this field to override alphabetic listings of divisions in the league portal, DCTV, performance leaderboard and division standings.
• Rollup Division: Use this feature to override listing divisions alphabetically if you have multiple divisions and sub-divisions (A1, A2 and A3 “roll up” to the “A” Division)

Division Exceptions

For divisions that have different start/end dates or uses a different format for league points, enter overrides in the these respective fields:

• Regular Season Start
• Regular Season End
• Division League Points

Inter-Division Play

If your league allows divisions to compete against each other during the regular season, add the appropriate divisions here.  Note: Divisions must be created first before you can add them for inter-division play.

Game Menu

If creating your first division, use the Game Menu wizard to create a menu with all game played in your league.  If you have existing divisions, select the “Prefill” option to copy over any division’s game menu.

Match Format

If creating your first division, use the Match Format wizard to set up your league match format.  If you have existing divisions, select the “Prefill” option to copy over any division’s match format settings and edit accordingly if needed.  See the “Know your DartConnect Vocabulary” section for definitions of match format terminology.

There is no such thing as “standard” darts terminology, and even experienced veterans confuse the words we use to describe a darts competition.  

Below is a quick explanation of how DartConnect uses the following important darts vocabulary:

• MATCH = A competition that is made up of one or more sets that results in a winning player or team when finished (or a tie if applicable)
• SET = A subset of a match that contains one or more legs. Players must remain the same for each leg within a set, but can change when a new set is started.
• LEG = An individual “round” of a specific game such as 501 or Cricket. A set can be made up of a single leg, multiple legs or “best of” a number of legs.
• GAME = the type of darts game being played such as “501” or “Cricket”

A MATCH is made up of SETS that contain LEGS of one or more GAME types. A leg consists of ROUNDS where each opponent has one TURN of up to 3 Darts.

“Opponents” are defined as the players competing during a given Set or Leg. If the player line up changes for either side, a new set begins. Opponents can be Singles, Doubles, Triples, Quads or Teams (5 or more players per side).

If you’ve completed two or more seasons with DartConnect, you have the ability to estimate team skill level based on 3-dart averages for 01 and Cricket.

Before running this report, consider utilizing the estimated 3-dart average found in the Team and Player list pages.

Teams is where you can review your team list, add new teams or edit the settings for existing teams.

Review the support information in this section to learn how to:

• Interpret and navigate the Team List
• Add/Delete or Assign/Unassign a team
• Retire or Unretire a team
• Edit team settings:
  • Team Name and Optional ID
  • Team Captain
  • Division Assignment
  • Sponsor Location
  • Team Notes

Vocabulary:

• Assigned = Active teams that have been assigned to a division
• Unassigned = Active teams that are waiting for division assignment. Use this designation if the team is skipping a season but expected to return.
• Retired = Use this designation to dissolve teams and release players for new team assignments. If this team record is reactivated for the current season, all players will need to be re-assigned to it.

• Use Red “Add Team” button to create a new team
• Use filter function to show only teams that are assigned or unassigned to divisions
• Show/Hide Retired Teams
• Use search functions to find specific teams
• “Est. ’01 (Points Per Round)/CRK (Marks Per Round) 3DA range”: Enter two 3DA’s separated by a “-” to isolate the range average you seek

Navigation

• Click on any header in Teams List to sort columns
• Blue Spy Glass = Access Team Edit page
• Click Team Roster Count  to open Team Player List
• League ID (L. ID) displays optional league ID

Features

• Estimated 3 Dart Averages (E ’01/E’CRK): DartConnect estimates a team’s future performance based on each player’s previous season averages.  Use column sorting and control panel search to refine your search.
• New Players (NP) / Roster:  New players do not have prior season data and will not be included in the the estimated 3-dart team average.  Use the Roster Count link to review the team player list.
• Retired Checkbox: Use this feature to retire non-returning teams and release the team roster.

Edit / Create Team

• Enter or change a team name
• League Team ID (optional): If your league maintains team ID code, enter it here
• Sponsor Location: Enter the team’s host pub, club or venue.
• Division: Use the drop down menu to assign teams to a division
• Post Season Group:  If your league has a post season, and the status is “Missing,” go the Post Season page in the league portal to assign this team’s division to a PS Group.  For more information, see the “Post Season” support section.
• Team Captain: Assign a player from the Team Roster to be designated as Captain. This enables captain-based reporting.
• Notes: Add any internal notes about this team.

Team Roster

• Review the team roster with player emails
• Click “Remove” to unassign player from the team
• To add new players:
  • Use “Search Player Names” to find existing available players to add
  • Use “Add New Player” button to create and add a player that does not currently exist

Players is where you can review your player list, add new players or edit the information for existing players.

Review the support information in this section to learn how to:

• Interpret and navigate the Player List
• Add/Delete players or change a player’s status and assignments
• Mark a player active or inactive (Act column)
• Player List Features:
  • Click column headers to sort list
  • Single Click checkbox for Active/Inactive setting
  • Single Click Gender to toggle M/F
  • Edit player info or team info with blue magnifying glass

Notes:

• Active / Inactive = Use this setting instead of deleting players in case they return in the future
• Gender = Set player genders to enable the gender filter in the performance leaderboard

• Use Red “Add Player” button to create a new player
• Use “Hide Inactive Players” toggle to show/hide inactive players
• Use search functions to find specific players

Navigation

• Click on any header in List to sort columns
• Blue Spy Glass = Access Player or Team Edit page
• If there is more than one page, there will be page links at the top and bottom of the screen
• The Member column is the player’s DartConnect Membership status: Guest, Premium or Blank for no membership or missing email
• Use “Hide Inactive Players” checkbox in the control panel to show/hide inactive players

Features

• Show Prior Season: Click the green button to show/hide player performance statistics from the prior season

Edit / Create Team

• Enter or change a player name
• Current Email: This should be the same email as the player’s DartConnect account if they have one
• Team: Assign the player to the team by selecting it from the drop down menu
• Post Season Group: If a player is connected to a post season group, it will be listed here
• Player is Captain: Check this box if this player is a team captain
• Season Eligibility: Use this option to suspend a  player or make them ineligible for participation
• Active Status:  Set the player active or inactive (this can also be done with the checkbox on the player list page)

“Additional Player Info”:

• Initial Email: If a player had a previous email in their record it will be listed here
• League Player ID (Optional): If league uses it’s own player identification, it can be entered here
• Video Chat Address:  Reserved for future use

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• Search Fields
• Reset Search

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• Sort on any columns with blue headers
• Red “X”: voids a match
• Blue Spyglass: view match report
• Red Spyglass: edit matches (see “Match Editing” for more information)
• Host player – click name to send email
• Pro Tip:
  • Click team name field to filter on that team’s match history only
  • Click on opponent’s name field to filter that team’s history
  • Use “Clear Search” to reset
• When 200 matches are exceeded, additional pages will be automatically created

• Overview
• View Contacts
  • How to add phone
  • Send email to all contacts
• Force Close
  • DartConnect sends automatic email reminder to host
  • Always better to contact device owner first

Use these tools to:

• Use red spyglass to alter the league points match score of an EXISTING match
• Use “Create Match” to create league points for a match that was not recorded in DartConnect to manage division standings

Here are the types of edits and changes you can make to a match:

• Reassign a match to the regular season or post season (within the same season only, you can not change the season a match was played in)
• Adjusting league points (match score)
• Adding Match Edit Notes
• Deleting individual legs
• Changing the players that participated in a set
• Changing the winner of a leg
• Changing the player throwing order for team games (pairs, triples, quads)
• Merge or unmerge matches (team leagues only)

To edit a match, click the RED SPYGLASS for any match in the log:

• Use Red “X” on the left side of the main match log listing to void a match, click again to reactivate
• Note: Merged matches must be unmerged in order to void them
• The league points for voided matches will be removed from Division Standings
• Voided matches will appear “grayed out” and italicized

Click the ‘X’ to void any match

• Use “Season” drop down menu to change a match from “Regular Season” to “Post Season” or vice versa

• Click on either player’s or team’s league points to change the score
• Click “Update League Points” when finished

Two types of notes:

• Public: Displayed in BOTH the league portal and public match report
• Private: For internal purposes, displayed on league portal only

• Important:  This operation is permanent and not reversible
• To replace this leg, first delete it, then recreate it in the scoring application by correctly identifying home/away teams, playing the leg, saving the match, and then add this leg to the existing match using the match merge tool  (Note: match merging is available for TEAM leagues only)

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To change who won the leg:

To change the player throw order:

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