Leagues that are not scored on plain won and lost

Not every league is scored the same way. Your league software lets each league set its own point system, and it prints whatever columns those rules call for on the standing sheet. PinPortal reads the columns from the headings on your sheet rather than assuming every league is a plain won-and-lost league, so your standings page shows what your sheet shows.

What you will see on your league page

A plain league gets the usual three columns: Won, Lost, and Pins + HDCP. Most leagues are this.

A league ranked on percentage of wins to losses also gets a % Won column. This is the setting that matters when a team joins partway through the season, because it lets that team compete on the same footing as teams that have bowled every week.

A split season gets a Season column beside the split. Won and Lost become Split Won and Split Lost and show the current segment; Season shows the record for the whole year. The extra column only appears once the two actually differ, so nothing changes for you until the first split resets.

Half points are shown as half points. A team on 55 and a half reads 55½, not 56. Rounding it away hides a tie and can put two teams in the wrong order.

Divisions are grouped and labelled just as the sheet groups them.

You do not have to configure anything

There is no setting for this in PinPortal. Your league software already knows the rules, and its standing sheet is the record. Set the point system there, export as normal, and PinPortal follows.

“Standings for this week are not in yet”

When a week has scores but no standing sheet, PinPortal will fill the standings in itself by adding up the weekly results, but only when it can prove that doing so reproduces your league’s own sheet. It checks its arithmetic against the most recent week that did have a sheet. If every team matches, it fills the week in and labels it as computed. If any team does not match, it writes nothing and the week says its standings are not in yet.

That check is deliberate. Performance points, Peterson points, regressive points, bonus points for high game and match-point systems all add up to something other than points per game won, and a standings table that quietly disagrees with the sheet on the wall is worse than no table at all.

The fix is always the same: export again once the standing sheet for that week exists, and import it. The standings come straight off the sheet and the message goes away.

What is stored behind the scenes

Every sheet column is kept even when it is not shown: scratch pinfall, actual games won as distinct from points won, and the year-to-date record. Actual games won is the tiebreaker USBC rules fall back on, and it is a different number from points won on any league awarding more than one point a game.

If your rules changed partway through

Point systems and handicap rules do change between seasons. Your standing sheets always carry whatever rule each season was bowled under, so the standings on your league pages stay right on their own.

The one place it matters is the handicap PinPortal works out for itself, for substitutes and for bowlers carrying an average in from last season. Those follow the handicap settings on the league, and a season bowled under an older rule can keep it: see League settings explained, under “Seasons that used a different rule”.

Related

See Importing a season ZIP, Weekly updates during the season, and Import troubleshooting.