As a Pennant Manager, your responsibility will be to manage and assist the overall flow and operation of a Pennant Competition. Some of these duties may include assisting with entering players and teams as well as managing the results of competitions.
The below guide will walk users through steps and tips of being a Pennant Manager as well as how it can link to the creation of a Pennant Competition.
Club Administrators will be able to operate these functions.
For information on How to Create a Pennant Competition, click HERE for our BowlsLink Support article.
Importing Players #
Depending on the level of access you have, the competitions you can put teams and scores into will be in either of two places.
Player/Team Manager given access to their own team only. Click on My Competitions.
A Person with access to the Club Administration in BowlsLink. Click on My Club Entries.
The Pennant Competitions will appear under ENTERED or IN PLAY Tab.
Once you have found your chosen Competition, Select the Tool Icon on the right-hand side and select the Manage Results option.
The following page will display the matches and fixtures for the specified Competition.
Select the appropriate Fixture round with the Tool Icon and select View Results
Under each Team is a SELECT TEAM Box. Click one at a time to start importing players under each team.
Repeat this process to add all team members.
Use the Blue Buttons to IMPORT players from the membership list into the required positions.
NOTE: First week of Competition, you will most likely need to import the players from the membership list to the Competition unless the team has been copied from a previous season.
If you have already entered a team in an earlier round you can import that team by clicking the spanner icon and select Import Teams. Then select which team from previous matches you are wanting to import.
Substituting Players #
If a player or players are needing to be substituted, this can be done via Manage Results.
When viewing the Pending Results, click the tool icon and select View Results. From the following page, click the tool icon on the righthand side and select, Manage Teams.
A side menu will open on the righthand side allowing team members or SUBSTITUTES to be selected. When selecting a Substitute, search members by “surname [space] club name” – e.g. “Hancock Melbourne” – or by National ID. Only the 50 most relevant matches will be shown.
The Substitute will then be added into the Entry – Click SAVE.
The member will appear in the entry as (sub), and be reflected in the BowlsLink Results Portal (click Show Teams) as well as the Competition’s dashboard with their role as Substitute. This information will be reportable via the Competition’s info in the Results Portal.
Matching Skips #
If you are not using SHUFFLE TEAMS you will need to ensure the correct teams are playing each other.
The HOME team is responsible for matching the TEAMS who play each other.
If the teams in the system do not match then click the tool icon against the team. Select SWAP AWAY TEAMS
Find the correct SKIP from the available list using the drop down arrow then select SWAP
Once selected, the AWAY TEAM will now swap positions. i.e. from Team 4 to Team 1. Repeat this process for as many teams as required.
Entering Results #
For Pennant competitions, only the HOME team can enter results, however, these may also need to be finalized with the agreement and confirmation from the AWAY team.
When viewing the Results of the matches, select the Update Results button – this will open a sidebar menu where the results can be input. These may be ends, points, scores or a combination, depending on how the Event was set.
Once the results are added, Click SAVE.
This process will need to be repeated for all the Rinks and BowlsLink will automatically calculate the totals.
Depending on your Competition Settings the results may be FINALIZED or at the bottom of the Results page, there will be an information box stating that the opposing team (AWAY Team) will need to approve the pending results.
If any changes are required, the Home team can still do this by editing the team that needs changing.
Click the Tool Icon and choose Un-finalise Side Match. This will un-finalise the match, which you can choose Update Results and change.
AWAY team Confirming the Results #
If you Competition is set for the Away team to confirm for the results and ladders to be finalized the AWAY team will be required to confirm the results.
The AWAY team needs to log in and follow the steps above to get into the correct round match (Competitions > My Club Entries). At the bottom of the screen is a confirm button, this option is only available to the away Sides.
Once the results have been Confirmed, neither the home nor away Sides can make any additional changes. Please ensure that all details are correct prior to confirmation.
Note: The only admins who can make changes after a result has been Finalized are Competition Administrators.
For more support please contact bowlslink@bowls.com.au