Set up your water polo league, step by step

Open eggbeater.app/admin.html and sign in with the Google account that owns your club. Click the Purchases tab in the sidebar.

Pick the right SKU for your league:

• Club League — $99/season — Your club's own internal or recreational league. All teams belong to your club.
• Multi-Club League — $249/season — Teams from multiple clubs (regional leagues, cross-club competitions). Inherits every Club League feature plus visiting-club spectator access and cross-club standings.

Stripe handles the checkout. Cancel anytime — the subscription is per season, not annual. Once payment clears, the Leagues tab in the sidebar shows a crown 👑 instead of a lock 🔒.

In the admin sidebar, click Leagues. You'll see a setup card at the top with two primary buttons:

• Set up league → launches the wizard for a brand-new league
• 📥 Import from Sheet pulls an existing schedule from Google Sheets
• 📋 Import league JSON loads a complete league config from a JSON file (used for migrations and seed scripts)

Below the setup card you'll find the empty states for Live Dashboard, Live Game Console, Standings, Player Stats, and Past Leagues. They fill in as you complete the next steps.

Click Set up league →. The wizard is one scrolling form. Fill in:

• League name — e.g. "Bay Area Adult Water Polo League"
• Season label — e.g. "Spring 2026" or "2026 Winter Season"
• League ID — auto-generated from the name; you can edit it before publishing
• Display language — sets the default language for spectators (English, Spanish, or French). Spectators land in your chosen language automatically; the picker still lets them switch.

Save and close at any point — your wizard draft persists locally until you commit.

In the wizard's Divisions & Teams step, add at least one division (most leagues use one — e.g. "Adult" or "Open"). For each division, list every team by name.

Rosters can be loaded two ways:

• League Rosters card on the Leagues tab — paste a CSV with columns Team, Cap #, First Name, Last Name (optional Division)
• Google Sheets URL — pull directly from a tab in the same sheet that holds your schedule

Roster entries flow into:

• The Alignements writeback tab (with per-player stats columns)
• The cap# → name auto-resolve in the per-game edit modal (so you don't have to remember who #11 is when entering saves)
• The player-stat aggregator for W-T-L attribution

Two paths depending on whether you have an existing schedule:

Auto-generate

• In the wizard's Format step, pick: Round Robin, Single Elimination, Double Elimination, Swiss, Weekly Pods, or Pools-to-Bracket
• In Schedule preset, set the game day (e.g. Thursdays), start times (e.g. 20:00 and 21:00), pool/court names, and minimum rest between same-team games
• Click Generate Schedule → and the wizard materializes every match with date, time, and venue

Import from Google Sheets

• Click 📥 Import from Sheet on the Leagues tab
• Paste the sheet URL or CSV content
• Map columns (Eggbeater auto-detects most standard headers)
• Preview the first 5 rows, then Import N games

Leagues with multiple stages — preseason exhibition, regular season, playoffs — should configure phases so standings and stats segment correctly.

Each phase has:

• ID — e.g. regular-season, playoffs
• Name — display label (e.g. "Regular Season", "Playoffs", or in your league's working language)
• Type — regular, playoff, preseason, or exhibition
• Counts toward standings — true for regular season + playoffs; false for preseason and exhibition

Each game has a phaseId. Edit a game (✏️ Edit button) to change which phase it belongs to, or mark it as an exhibition game so it doesn't affect standings even when finalized.

In the wizard's Points & tiebreakers step, configure your scoring rules.

Default points policy: 3 win / 1 tie / 0 loss. Shootout wins default to 2 pts (per FINA convention).

Tiebreakers resolve teams with equal points. The default chain (most-to-least applied):

1. Points
2. Wins
3. Head-to-head record
4. Goals against (fewer is better)
5. Goals for
6. Goal differential (capped at ±5/game)
7. Team name (alphabetical)

Many leagues simplify to a shorter chain like points → goals-for → name. Pick whatever matches your league's bylaws — Eggbeater applies it consistently across all standings views.

On the Leagues tab, find the Publishing card and click Publish League. Eggbeater:

• Mints a 6-character share code (e.g. SPRG26) — admins can pick the code
• Activates a public spectator URL: eggbeater.app/tournament.html?code=YOUR_CODE
• Auto-generates an SEO landing page at /leagues/{your-slug}/
• Applies your club's branding (logo + primary/secondary colors) to the spectator page

The spectator page detects the league's display language and auto-switches the UI accordingly. French leagues land in French; Spanish leagues land in Spanish.

On the standings card header, click 📊 Export to Sheets. The first time you'll grant Google Sheets API access via OAuth. After that:

• Eggbeater creates a new workbook in your Drive titled "{League Name} — {Season}"
• Initial export populates ~7 tabs: League Overview, Master Schedule, Standings (combined + per-phase), Per-division standings
• Additional tabs land on subsequent exports as data accumulates: Alignements (with per-player stats), Statistique per phase, Career, Archives, and one Feuille de match per played game

Auto-sync: every time a game's score flips to FINAL, the workbook updates within a few seconds — no manual re-export needed. Auth survives for ~50 minutes; after that, click Re-export once to refresh the token.

Three paths to record a score:

A. Live scoring during the game

• The scorer at the desk opens eggbeater.app on a tablet, enters the share code, picks the game, and starts the clock
• Tapping Goal, Assist, Save, etc., logs events with the cap number and timestamp. Button labels render in the league's display language (English, Spanish, or French) automatically.
• Spectators see updates within 5 seconds. Standings re-rank live.

B. Final score only

• In the admin Live Game Console, type the final score in each team's input and click Save
• The game flips to FINAL. Auto-sync pushes the score to the Google Sheets workbook within 3 seconds.

C. Backfill events from a paper scoresheet

• Click 📝 Log on the game's tile
• Enter events one at a time: period, time, cap color, team, cap #, action, position
• Each submission appends to the game's action log and refreshes the per-game writeback tab

Before flipping a game to FINAL, fill in the two referee names via ✏️ Edit. Eggbeater warns when the refs are missing on a non-exhibition game.