League settings explained

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Edit any league from League Management → Manage Leagues.

  • Active: whether the league is currently running. Inactive leagues keep their pages and history; imports into them trigger a warning.
  • Visible on public site: controls the public page, league lists, and sitemaps. Uncheck for internal or practice leagues.
  • No-tap: marks the league as no-tap scoring; a badge appears on public pages so visitors understand the big scores.
  • Scoring: points per game / total, and handicap base and percentage, used when PinPortal needs to compute standings itself. These are the league’s current rules; a season bowled under different ones can keep them, see below.
  • Handicap cap, negative handicap & rounding: match these to your BLS handicap options. The cap limits handicap to a maximum number of pins (0 = no cap); the negative-handicap option lets bowlers whose average exceeds the base carry a negative handicap; rounding chooses drop-fractions (the BLS default), nearest pin, or round up. These apply only to handicaps PinPortal computes itself, substitutes and entering handicaps, never to values printed on your standing sheets, which are always used as-is. Changing them affects future imports; re-import a week to recompute it.
  • Gender overrides: pin a bowler to the men’s or women’s boards when the league-software data has it wrong. Overrides survive re-imports.
  • Hidden bowlers: bowlers listed here are removed from all public pages, TV images, and sitemaps at display time; their scores still count toward team totals. See the Privacy section.
  • Day, time, location, description: shown on league lists and pages; auto-filled from your league data where possible.

Seasons that used a different rule

Handicap rules change. A league moves from 90% of 210 to 100% of 200, and the seasons already bowled have to keep the rule they were bowled under, or every handicap PinPortal works out for them comes out wrong by a dozen pins.

Underneath the handicap settings is a list of every season the league has bowled, with a percentage and a base box for each. Every season follows the league setting unless you fill one of those in, so if your rules have never changed there is nothing to do here and nothing changes.

Leave a box empty and that part follows the league, so a season that only moved its base does not have to restate the percentage, the cap and the rounding as well. The column on the right shows the rule actually in force for that season as you type. Clear both boxes and the season goes back to following the league.

Set one only for a season that was genuinely bowled under different rules. If you are not sure what an old season used, leave it alone: following the league is a better answer than a number nobody can vouch for.

Manual lane assignments

The lanes icon on each league opens the lane editor: set or fix upcoming lane pairs by hand, useful for position rounds, division pairings, or anything the imported schedule doesn’t capture. Pick the week, add pairs (lanes + the two teams), save; public pages update immediately. A later import for that week replaces manual entries with the sheet’s schedule.

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