On the platform
Run it on LeagueNav
Your staff schedule in the same workspace our specialists use, connected to registration, game night and results. We set it up with you, and people who run leagues are a direct line away.
Explore the platformScheduling intelligence
Part of the LeagueNav platformSchedules that hold up after you publish
Every Game checked against every facility window, blackout and commitment, with people making the tradeoff calls. Run it yourself on LeagueNav, hand the season to our specialists, or buy scheduling on its own. 50,000+ games scheduled since 2021.
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- Games scheduled since 2021
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Why scheduling is hard
Placing games is the easy part
A round-robin is math. A real season is a stack of rules that pull against each other, most of them living in one person's head. And the work does not stop on publish day.
Shared facility time
A limited set of Slots, shared with other leagues and programs, in windows that change after you have planned around them.
Team requests and blackouts
Blackout dates, late-start limits, and players or coaches who are on more than one Team.
Fairness everyone can see
Balanced start times, home and away, rest between Games, and the same number of Games for every Team.
Division rules
Different formats, Game lengths and cross-division play, all drawing on the same pool of facility time.
Commitments nobody wrote down
The Team that always gets the early slot, the promise made to a facility, the rule only one person remembers.
The changes after you publish
A facility cancels a night, a Team drops, playoffs move. Fix one Game by hand and three others break further down the season.
How we schedule
Code checks the rules. People make the calls.
LeagueNav checks every Game against every facility window, availability and commitment, the same way every time. When rules pull against each other, a person decides with the tradeoff in front of them.
Get the inputs right
Facility windows, Teams, divisions, blackouts and commitments go in first. We flag what is missing or likely to break before a single Game is placed.
Check every rule, every time
Each Game is checked against every Slot, the same way every time. Hard rules never bend. Targets such as rest, start times and balance can bend, and when one does, it is flagged for review.
Make the tradeoff calls
When two targets pull against each other, a person chooses, with what each option gains and costs laid out. The reason stays with the schedule.
Publish
You approve the season. It goes to your league website and player app on LeagueNav, or out to the systems you already use.
Handle the changes
After you publish, every moved Game is checked against the same rules, so fixing one night does not quietly break three others.
What code checks
- Every facility window and Slot
- Team availability and blackout dates
- No facility booked twice, no Team in two places at once
- Rest, start-time and home-and-away targets, flagged when they bend
- Every change after publishing, checked the same way
What people decide
- Which target bends when two of them disagree
- The commitments and history that never made it into a rule
- Who gets the late slot this time, and why
- When a change is worth the ripple it causes
- What your league approves before anything goes out
Ways to use it
Use it your way. Scheduling alone is welcome.
Scheduling is the flagship of the LeagueNav platform, and you can take it however fits your league this season.
Managed scheduling
Hand us the season
Our specialists own your season schedule within an agreed scope, including the changes after you publish. You keep the decisions that should stay with your league.
How managed scheduling worksScheduling only
Just the schedule, done well
Keep the rest of your setup. We build and check the season and hand it over in the form you publish today. Add more later only if it earns its place.
Ways to work with usManaged scheduling
Hand us the season. Keep the decisions.
Our scheduling specialists own your season within an agreed scope: the build, the review, publishing, and the changes after you publish. You approve the schedule and keep the calls that belong to your league.
A season you can stand behind
Every Game checked against your agreed hard rules, with the remaining tradeoffs surfaced and explained instead of hidden.
One point person
A dedicated scheduling contact for the season. Send a change and a person who knows your league handles it.
Changes after publishing
An agreed allowance of reschedules and exceptions, each one checked against the same rules as the original build.
We own the miss
Experienced schedulers review every schedule before it ships. If we miss a confirmed hard rule, it is ours to fix.
What the scope covers
Initial build
The full season, built and checked against your agreed hard rules.
Review rounds
An agreed number of review-and-revise rounds before you approve.
Publishing
Your league website on LeagueNav, or the formats your current platform takes.
Change allowance
A defined volume of changes after publishing, with response times set up front.
Communications
Schedule notices to your Teams where you hand them to us; otherwise they stay with you.
Major rebuilds
A wholesale rebuild mid-season is scoped separately, and we say where that line sits.
Rush and late inputs
Compressed deadlines and late inputs are handled, and scoped, before we start.
Clean handoff
If you take scheduling back, you keep the rules, the decisions and the history.
Your Preview includes a quote for the season. Nothing is billed until you approve the scope and the price.
Scheduling is one of the jobs we can run for you. See managed operations.
Proof
50,000+ games scheduled since 2021
Season after season, every one placed against real facility time, Team requests and league rules. The people who schedule them actually run leagues.
Tyler Fitch, Founder.
See the leagues on LeagueNav →Scheduling Studies
We also study how schedules get made
Each study rebuilds a real season from public data and shows what every tradeoff cost. Our NHL study works through 1,344 games in 185 days. It is independent research from public information, not client work.
Free tools
Just need the matchups?
If your season really is a simple round-robin, the free tools will do it.
FAQ
Questions about scheduling
Yes. Scheduling on its own is welcome. We build and check your season and the rest of your setup stays as it is. If registration, game night or results on LeagueNav earn their place later, they are there.
Within an agreed scope: preparing and checking your inputs, building the season, surfacing the tradeoffs, review rounds, publishing, and an agreed allowance of changes after you publish. The scope, including where a major rebuild starts, is written down before you commit.
The affected Games are checked against the same rules as the original build, so a fix in one week does not break three others. On managed scheduling, your scheduling contact handles the agreed changes. On the platform, your staff make the change in the same workspace, checked the same way.
No. The rules are checked by code, the same way every time, and people make the tradeoff calls. Software helps find the options and explain them. It never decides on its own.
Your free League Preview includes a quote. It depends on your Teams, Games and divisions, your facilities, how clean your data is, how complex your rules are, your deadlines, and how much changes in season. Nothing is billed until you approve the scope and the price.
Yes. Your League Preview is a private link built around your organization: your name and colours, your structure and the kinds of rules you schedule around. It arrives within 48 hours, with the quote.
LeagueNav Preview
See your league running in LeagueNav.
Tell us how your league runs today. Within 48 hours you get a private Preview built around your organization, and a quote for the work you would hand to us. Free, and no obligation.