A league ties several tournaments into one overall competition. You create it in the Console under your club, and pick the league at the top of the form when setting up a tournament.
Two league types
- Leaderboard league — sums points from the tournaments and shows a table. Each tournament keeps its whole pot to itself. The simplest kind, and all many clubs need.
- Prize league — a share of each tournament’s pot is noted into a shared league pot, settled when the season concludes. You pick the conclusion: winner on points or final table.
Like everything else in DealMeIn, the pot is numbers recorded and displayed — money always moves outside the app.
Rules you can set
- Period — start and end.
- Min/max tournaments — how many must be played to count.
- Counting (best N) — set 0 and everything counts. Otherwise only each player’s N best results count, so one bad tournament doesn’t sink a season.
- Min/max players — tournaments outside the range don’t count.
In the standings, Points shows the counting results and Total shows everything played, so players can see both.
Scoring
A league uses the standard tournament points unless you say otherwise. For something of your own, there are four systems:
- Position formula —
(player count − position + 1) × multiplier. Simple and predictable. - Fixed table — you set points per position. Positions you don’t list score 0.
- Tournament formula — the same shape as the standard points, with your own base point.
- Last longer — rewards surviving longest.
You can also award participation points, so turning up is always worth something.
The league pot (prize leagues)
For a prize league you set a percentage of each tournament. When a linked tournament is finalized, that share is noted into the league pot — and the finalize card shows the whole calculation, so nothing shrinks silently.
The league page has its own pot card showing the accumulated pot and what each tournament contributed. Every member sees the same numbers.
Pre-announced structure
A league is a pre-announced competition, and the rules shouldn’t change along the way:
- The league is created with a fixed timer setup and blind structure. Tournaments linked to it use these.
- Once a linked tournament has been announced, the setup and economy lock — on the tournament and on the league itself. An administrator can override the lock, but gets a clear warning first.
How a league ends
Leaderboard league: whoever tops the standings wins. When the season is done, close the league.
Prize league — winner on points: when the season is over, use Settle the league. The pot is distributed over the final standings by the percentages you set when creating the league, with room to adjust per place before confirming. The distribution is kept as a payout record on the league page, and counts in each player’s overall statistics.
Prize league — final table: the top N qualify for a finale. You generate the finale tournament from the league, and starting stacks come from league points: points × chips per point, clamped by a minimum and maximum you choose. Whoever collected most across the season starts with the most chips. The finale is played for the whole league pot — qualifiers are marked as paid, and the finale has no rebuys and no add-ons.