Annual Golf Tournament (Match Play)

I’m attempting to use SportsPress for an annual youth golf tournament that is match play. There are two teams of 12 from the same two cities each year. The match is played over 2 days and involves 3 separate matches. The format is *similar* to the Ryder Cup.

Match 1 is team match play between 2-player teams from each city and is for 9 holes. Each 2-player teams earns 1 point for each hole won or 1/2 point if the hole is a tie.

Match 2 is team match play between 2-player teams from each city and is for 9 holes. Scoring is the same as for Match 1.

Match 3 is individual match play between a player from each city and is for 18 holes. Scoring is the same as for Match 1.

Team scoring is 1 point for a match win, 1/2 point for match tie and 0 point for a match loss.

For example, assume 2 players from each team (“Match 1 Team A” consisting of Player A1 and Player A2; “Match 1 Team B” consisting of Player B1 and Player B2).

Match 1 is 9 holes and Match 1 Team A wins holes 1, 3 and 5 while Match 1 Team B wins holes 2, 4, 6 and 8; the remaining holes are ties. This would result in a score of Match 1 Team A = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1/2 + 1/2 = 4 (1 point for the wins on holes 1, 3 and 5 and 1/2 point for ties on holes 7 and 9) and for Match 1 Team B = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1/2 + 1/2 = 5 (1 point for the wins on holes 2, 4, 6 and 8 and 1/2 point for ties on holes 7 and 9).

Team scores after Match 1 would be Team A = 0 and Team B = 1 (Match 1 Team B wins over Match 1 Team A by 5 to 4).

Match 2 is 9 holes and Match 2 Team A wins holes 1, 2, 3 and 4 while Match 2 Team B wins 5, 6, 7 and 8; hole 9 is a tie. The resulting score is Match 2 Team A = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1/2 = 4.5 and Match 2 Team B = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1/2 = 4.5.

Team scores after Matches 1&2 is Team A = 0.5 and Team B = 1.5 (each team gets 1/2 point added to their overall score).

Match 3 is 18 holes individual match play. Player A1 plays Player B1 with the results A1 wins holes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 and Player B1 wins holes 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 17. Resulting score is Player A1 = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 9 and Player B1 = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 9. Player A2 plays Player B2 with results of A2 wins 2, 6, 10, 14 and 18 and B2 wins 1, 5, 9, 13 and 17; the remaining holes are tied (3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 16). Resulting score is Player A2 = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 = 9 and Player B2 = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 = 9.

The overall tournament score is then overall scores for Match 1 + Match 2 + Match 3:

Team A: 0 + 0.5 + 0.5 (Player A1 and Player B1 tie in Match 3) + 0.5 (Player A2 and Player B2 tie in Match 3) = 1
Team B: 1 + 0.5 + 0.5 (Player A1 and Player B1 tie in Match 3) + 0.5 (Player A2 and Player B2 tie in Match 3) = 2

I’ve specified “Golf” in the General tab of the Sportspress settings, imported sample data and installed the Sportspress for Golf plugin. I realize all of these are geared towards individual and not match play, but I figured that I could decipher how Sportspress was configured for individual golf play and then apply that to a custom configuration for match golf play.

Unfortunately, the “Configure” section of Sportspress is more or less inscrutable and there is no documentation for how to setup custom configurations (that I can find anyway). In particular, there appear to variables that are used in calculating results or stats that I don’t see where they are actually defined in the configuration (e.g., “strokes” is specified in the “par” Event Results but I don’t see where “par” is defined…).

Any help appreciated!