Entering fixtures and results

Entering fixtures and results

In this document, fixtures and results refer to a game that will be or has been played - they are treated the same except that a result is just a fixture with a final score attached.

The fixtures dialog operates similar to the dialogs for editing teams, tipsters, etc in the way that you must click the save button or any changed details (including entered scores!) will be discarded. Whilst this may be fiddly, it has been done for consistency.

Games for round [select round]: here you select what round you are entering fixtures for. Beneath this selector are the games for the selected round - clicking on a game here will display its details on the right
Home team, away team: obvious. If nothing is showing here, check that you have entered abbreviations for each team in the "Edit teams" window
Venue: obvious. This option may be disabled if you choose not to keep track of where games are played (see League options)
Margin game: tick this box if you want tipsters to choose a winning margin for this game
Completed: indicates whether the game has been completed or not. You cannot enter tips for completed games. However, you can temporarily un-complete a game, update missed tips, and then re-tick the completed box. This must be done in one Wests session (ie, don't close the program or load another file in between) otherwise the completed scores will be lost because in your data file, Wests doesn't save scores for games that haven't been completed (for obvious reasons).
Start time: obvious. May be disabled if you choose not to keep track of game start times (see League options)
Extra game info: If you're dedicated, then you could use this box to include information that doesn't fit into any normal data associated with a game, or to link to an actual scorecard and report of the match.
Point multipliers: generally these will all be 1, though in the example shown above they are not! These numbers are what the normal number of points received for a correct tip are multiplied by, and can be modified on a game-by-game basis. eg, in the example above, there is more incentive to tip the home team than the away team (because they return more points) however the higher potential points score probably indicates that they are rank underdogs. A basis for the multipliers used in each game could be odds provided by betting agencies (eg in the example above, WB were at $3.30 to win and WCE were $1.33 favourites). Remember that these numbers are also multiplied by the points you set in the tipping comp options. You can only enter whole numbers, including zero if you do not want the results of this match to affect the tipping competition.
Enter/update results: display results box for this game. This is really easy to use! Just enter the final scores in the appropriate boxes.
Save game: commit changes to memory - if you close this window by clicking cancel though, these changes will be lost. Make sure you click OK to close the window!
Delete game: deletes the game from Wests.
All games in this round completed: This tells you the state of the round - whether or not you have entered results for each match. A greyed out box means that some games have been completed. You can click on this box to complete or uncomplete every game in the round at once. The only reason you would want to do this is if you need to enter someone's tips after a round has been completed; since you can't enter tips for a completed match, you can use this option to uncomplete all matches for the round, then enter that person's tips, and then tick the box again to mark all matches as completed again.

You do not need to explicitly enter a bye. If a team does not have a game scheduled for a particular round, it will be allocated the number of premiership points you have specified in the League options. You can choose whether to list teams with a bye for a given round on the fixtures pages in the output options window.