When you need it
A straight round robin gets unwieldy once a group gets big, too many rounds to get through everyone. Pool play breaks it into smaller, manageable chunks while still ending in one overall winner.
Turn on both toggles
Pool play requires Team Mode and Playoffs both switched on in Tournament Structure. Needs at least 4 teams per pool to make sense.
Split into pools
Choose 2 or 3 pools. Ballsy divides your teams and runs a separate round robin inside each pool, so everyone plays a full, fair set of games within their group first.
Advance to the bracket
Top finishers from each pool move on to a playoff bracket, single or double elimination, your call. The bracket seeds itself automatically from pool standings, no manual seeding required.
Play it out
Playoff scores are entered the same way as everything else, and they stay editable the whole time in case of a scoring mistake. Last match is the gold match. Whoever wins that one gets to be insufferable about it for at least a week.
Ready to actually run this thing?
Free for up to 16 players. No signup, no app, no excuses.