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 Here we are going to set up a brand new league and walk through what league organisers need to do to get themselves up and running. You will need to be [[lms:home#accessing the lms|logged on]] as a club, district or county.
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 ===== Create a league =====
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 ==== What about non-members? ====
-First of all, it's not a big deal if you leave them off the team. The only reason to keep track of EBU numbers and who is playing in which match is for the purposes of masterpoints, and non-members have no interest in masterpoints. If a division is declared as being for teams of four, and a team submits a result with just three players participating then the league will still be charged for four players. The only exception to this is if zero players play in //both// teams in a match - then the assumption is that the match was not played and an artificial score was awarded.
+First of all, it's not a big deal if you leave them off the team. The only reason to keep track of EBU numbers and who is playing in which match is for the purposes of masterpoints, which non-members have no interest in. If a division is declared as being for teams of four, and a team submits a result with just three players participating then the league will still be charged for four players. The only exception to this is if zero players play in //both// teams in a match - then the assumption is that the match was not played and an artificial score was awarded.
 If league organisers nevertheless want to keep track of non-members, then here are some things to bear in mind.
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   - Clubs have the ability to [[members:add-member|create records for people]] but not join them to the club. They will initially be given a temporary EBU number, but if you wait 24 hours you should be able to find them with the search facility in the members area (follow the procedure as if you're looking for them to join them up to the club).
   - Counties and districts will not be able to do this, but they may have a friendly local club who can oblige.
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+===== Create matches =====
+Once all the teams have been entered onto the system, it is time to set up the matches. **Important:** once you have done this you will no longer be able to add new teams, remove teams, or promote/relegate teams to and from this division. So be sure that all the teams are present and correct before moving on. This doesn't affect the team personnel or team name, which you can change throughout the season.
+When you press //Create Matches// you will be asked to enter the number of rounds i.e. is it a single, double, triple or quadruple round-robin. With 2 or 4 rounds, teams will be assigned home/away against every other team an even number of times. With 1 or 3 rounds, the odd round will be assigned randomly, although league organisers can change home/away for any particular match.
+Once you've selected the number of rounds the team will look something like this:
+{{ :lms:matches-present.png?nolink |}}
+This example is a double round-robin, so //Rebecca's Rovers// are playing each of the other five teams twice, once home and once away. The double arrow icon will swap home/away around and the edit icon will let you amend this match (see next section).
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+===== Edit a match (submit results) =====