absolute control over all aspects of Sports Scheduling

Constellation Features
Constellation Sports Scheduling Software System is a magnificent time saving tool for sport federations and anyone who does sports scheduling, sports competitions and game events. Constellation can handle sports schedules of any size and complexity.

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When you improve something by an order of magnitude, you have not made something better - you have made something new. CONSTELLATION has boosted Milano FIGC Office Productivity on unprecedented level.

The Constellation scheduler can be customized in order to automatically accomplish users' unique scheduling desires. It gives you absolute control over all aspects of the fixture calendars, and creates solutions effortlessly and in harmony with the team constraints.

The user experience is interactive and seamless. The Constellation application suite comes fully documented with searchable help system to provide solutions and examples to any situation.
Clubs simply fill in the requested information on web in the wizard like interface, and Constellation automates the sport season competitions, championships, tournaments, league, balanced round-robin and even exercise schedules. Constellation can schedule games with any combination of dates and times. Constellation automates round-robin league schedules, cross divisional or practice schedules for any sport that requires pairings – binding and other constraints.

It is easy to set team and field constraints, game length, configurative time management utilities to help you organize events the way you would like; object constraint sharing; automatic schedule generation and re-generation; contact management; import teams, fields, officials, players and player rosters from other users' projects; constraint and conflict checking and resolution.

It has so many features that they can not be listed in one single page, and some of them are enlisted here!
> Multiuser Support
> Ease of use enables quick learning curve and reduces need for help desk
> Low maintenance
> Cross platform files exportable/ viewable in all systems (Mac, Win, Unix)
> Detailed error report with input data consistency-control
> Geographic proximity groupping of the teams inside league-divisions
> Interactive Schedule build process
> Inter-divisional Conflict Feedback
> Schedule Constraint Fixtures/Calendars
> Auto conflict resolution
> Team Roster Player with auto conflict resolution
> Interactive report feedback
> Team Home and Away Sequence feedback
> Team classification results report
> Filterable and searchable Schedule Views
> Live updating and reporting
> Team rivalry feedback report
> Team games per week report
> Early - Late game slot distribution report
> Unsatisfied constraints feedback report
> Unsatisfied conflicts feedback report
> Full featured email reporting with support for scheduled mailings
> Player roster support and administration
> Time shifting feature
> Last minute adjustments (cancellations and updates)
> Handling of score results (batch export-import)
> Customizable CSV output
> Printable HTML schedules
> Output to Excel spreadsheet format


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WHAT IS FIXTURE?
The Fixture is fixed game in schedule. It is game time slots scheduled in advance.

FIXTURE should meet all CONSTRAINTS
Before you can run the scheduler you will need to have setup all CONSTELLATION GRAPHS:
a/ Set the dates and times when fixtures should take place each week, team and venue availability calendars, i.e. availability and preferred calendars for league, divisions, teams and venues
b/ Setup exceptions dates when fixtures should not take place e.g. December 25th
c/ Setup the teams in your club(s) and the venues where teams play.
d/ The CONSTELLATION scheduler enables venue sharing between leagues, divisions and teams
e/ If all constraints cannot be met then conflicts can be resolved via the conflict checker.
f/ venue and team compatibility binding constraints setup

FIXTURE SPREADSHEET UPLOADER
You can create your schedule using your own systems and then manually upload it using a FIXTURE UPLOADER


The different status of a fixture:
Available Games and Results Report
Lists open game time slots to help you reschedule rainouts or cancellations.

- Cancelled: A fixture which was cancelled and will not be re-arranged at a later date. Not reflected in table.
- Postponed: A fixture which was cancelled and will be re-arranged for a date in the future. Not reflected in table.
- Home/ Away Walkover: A home win irrespective of the result (which is optional). Win and result applied to tables.
- Home / Away Win Penalties: Used to progress a team to the next round of a cup if the result was a draw.
- Abandoned: Fixture was not completed, score shown as a result. Not reflected in table.

CONSTELLATION SCHEDULER FEATURES
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- Creates schedules in a “predictable” manner based on fixed schedules. Teams are guaranteed to be scheduled based on these templates.
- Accommodates venue sharing within a division
- Accommodates venue sharing between separate divisions
- Support a division calendar when each division fixture should take place
- Support a team calendar when each team fixture should tale place

- Support a venue and pitch calendar, when each venue / pitch is available
- a) All matches scheduled at the team’s highest priority pitch regardless of availability
- b) matches will be schedules at available pitches. if there are no available pitches then at the team’s highest priority pitch regardless of availability.
- c) conflicts show if a venue / pitch is used on a non preferred time or if it is double booked.


Support predefined fixtures
- a) Dates when specific teams must play can be specified and these will be satisfied if the number of consecutive home or away matches is not affected.
- b) if a team does not play its opponent on the same date as a predefined fixture it is shown as a conflict.
- c) Teams have to be set up in the division to be scheduled. Each team has to have a highest priority pitch.
- d) Requires some fixtures for a division which could have been setup any way.
- e) Preferred / available / closed calendars for league, division, team, venues and pitches.
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League Schedules
Create round-robin and traveling league schedules easily. Just enter your locations, teams, game times and start date.
League Scheduler automatically creates your game schedules for the whole season.

Flexible Scheduling
League Scheduler takes care of balancing game times and locations across the teams.
And gives you the flexibility to enter max games per day and per week, min days off between games, and number of times each teams plays each other.
Our league scheduling software handles multiple locations, division play, and game and team exception processing.
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More Features in League Scheduler

Team Standings
Once your league starts, as you enter game scores the team standings are automatically tracked.
Standings report shows won/loss record, ties, win percentage, and points. Options to choose which fields to rank teams including head-to-head tie-breakers.

Exceptions & Block Out Days
Add block out days to prevent games from being scheduled for all teams.
For non-traveling leagues, you can also add individual team exceptions for day of week or times.
For example, all games for the Comets must start after 6:00pm.


Audit Reporting
The Audit Report is a very important tool you can use to determine if the league schedule will work for you.
You can always edit the schedule and then return to the Audit Report to look over the counts.
Total counts are shown for Home and Visitor, Locations, Game Times, Days of Week and Team vs. Team.

Available Games Report
Lists open game time slots to help you reschedule rainouts or cancellations.

Division Play
Our league scheduling software handles division play and allows the number of times teams play inside and outside a division to be different.

Game Highlights
Add game highlights, comments, weather conditions, etc. and view them on the game scores report.

Reporting Options
You can view, print, or export league scheduling reports. You can choose a date range for any report.

Help for Every Screen
Convenient help screens in our league software are available to assist you through every step of your league scheduling.


More Features in League Scheduler

Export Game Schedules
Export game schedules to your calendar program with iCalendar, vCalendar, and Google Calendar formats. Or export to comma separated format to use in Excel.

Manual Entry
Sometimes you're handed a schedule that's already been done by hand. League Scheduler allows you to manually enter this in exactly as is without going through the compute options.
The schedule will be accurate and you'll have the advantage of great looking reports and the free website too.

Share Locations
You can share locations across multiple schedules and League Scheduler will not create conflicts.

Free League Website
Post your league schedule on your own free website. Just choose your website name and publish. View sample League Website

Import Teams
Import team names and locations from a CSV file.

Scheduler allows you to make those last-minute adjustments, then to click the "Schedule Calendar" button. Seconds later, you've got your new calendar.

The program allows you to define divisions, teams, and venues, and then to automatically create a schedule for up to 500 teams per league/division (or maybe a few more). Pairings can employ our optimized algorithm, random pairings, "available timeslots" method or manual method. The program also includes algorithms for single- and double-elimination tournament play for 5-16 teams.