Scheduling & Beyond

Once registration closes or your league fills up, we get to work putting together your schedule. Here's what the full process looks like — from that first schedule all the way through the end of your season.

How Your Schedule is Created

After registration closes, the volley.love team builds a custom schedule for your league. It usually takes a day or two. We look at your courts, time slots, number of teams, and any custom requests you submitted when creating the league — and put together the best possible schedule that works for everyone.

What We Optimize For

A good schedule isn't just about filling in time slots. Here's what we focus on when building yours:

• Fair matchups — Every team plays every other team a similar number of times
• Even time slot distribution — Nobody always gets stuck with the early slot or always plays late. We spread time slots as evenly as possible across all teams
• Equal match counts — All teams play the same number of total matches (when possible)
• Evenly distributed double headers — When double headers are needed to fill available court time, we spread them out so no single team gets more than their share
• Minimal repeated matchups — We space out rematches so teams aren't playing the same opponent week after week
• Avoiding long gaps between matches — If a team plays multiple times in a day, we try to keep their matches close together rather than leaving them sitting around for hours
• Your custom requests — Any accommodation requests you shared when setting up the league are factored in

Reviewing Your Schedule

When the schedule is ready, we'll email you a link to review it. From there you can:

• Approve it — and we'll notify all your captains automatically
• Request changes — tell us what needs to be different and we'll put together an updated version

After You Approve

Once you approve the schedule:

• Captains receive an email with a link to their team's schedule
• The season is underway — scores, standings, and stats update automatically as matches are played
• If you need to make changes (cancellations, team changes), you can manage that from your league dashboard

Late Registration

If your league isn't full when scheduling starts, you can keep registration open for new teams. When a new team joins, we'll put together an updated schedule that includes them — no extra work on your end.

Learn more about late registration

Questions?

We're here to help. You can always contact us or reply to any email from volley.love.