Events and Scoring Management Screen¶

Events and Scoring button in management screens

Events Grid¶

The events grid is used to define all events that exist in your competition.

Example Event Grid

You can work through the grid in on the web page or set it up on a spreadsheet and copy it in.

Column Headings¶

Flexible Timetabling¶

Note

If you want to make sure your events are in chronological order but you are not sure of your final timetable, then give event IDs in order, simply 1, 2, 3, etc. Once your timetable is finalised, click the RENUMBER EVENTS button.

Standard Event Codes¶

We've put together a table of the event codes available in our system. These are used to specify what your event is.

N.B. Not all events are listed as it would be infinite to list every distance possible. Pay particular attention to distance events as the format is repeated, e.g. 60m, 60H, 5k, 5 miles, 20km walk, 2000m steeplechase, relays, etc

Event	Code	Note
High Jump	HJ
Pole Vault	PV
Long Jump	LJ
Triple Jump	TJ
Shot Put	SP
Discus	DT
Hammer	HT
Javelin	JT
Other Throw	OT	For any miscellaneous throw
60m	60	Any raw number is assumed to be in metres, i.e. 100m is 100, 200m is 200 etc.
60m Hurdles	60H	Any number ending with H is a hurdles event over that number of metres
2000m S'chase	2000SC	Any number ending with SC is a steeplechase event over that number of metres
20km Walk	20KW	K is for kilometres, and W is for walk
Decathlon	DEC
Heptathlon	HEP
Pentathlon	PEN
Quadkids	QUAD
Octathlon	OCT
4x100m Relay	4X100	Always the number of athletes, then 'X', then the distance of the relay in metres
Track mile	MILE
Road mile	1M	Any number ending with M is a road event over that number of miles
5 km	5K	Any number ending with K is a road event over that number of kilometres
5 miles	5M
Marathon	MAR
Half marathon	HM
5 mile cross-country	XC	You can use XC as a simple code, and put distance in the event name
Higher is better (i.e. press ups)	H1	Can use any code from H1 to H9
Lower is better (i.e. golf-style scoring)	L1	Can use any code from L1 to L9
Set time	T30	Any number preceded by T is a timed event. T30 is a 30 minute event

Sportshall Event Codes¶

Event	Code
Standing Long Jump	SLJ
Standing Vertical Jump	SHJ
Standing Triple Jump	STJ
Balance Test	BAL
Speed Bounce	SPB
Target Throw	TART
Overhead Heave	OHT
Hi-Stepper 4*8m	32H
Chest Push	CHT
Shuttle Run 10m*10m	100
Indoor Javelin	JT
800m	800
Shot Put	SP

For help with the SportsHall concept and to learn how the events work and codes should be applied, please take a look at the handbook.

Events Table¶

The events table is a quick way to view, add, edit, or delete events.

Events Table

You can quickly view the Event Number, Code, Age Group, Gender, Category Limit, Name, number of rounds, and the Time & Day of each round.

You can search for events by any the values in the event table, or you can filter your search to only look at the values of the event number (Event ID) or event code.
The table by default will only show 10 rows, and you can use the arrows to look at the next next events, or you can increase the rows per page to 20 or 50.

Deleting an Individual Events¶

At the end of the page, you will see two Actions allowing you to delete and edit individual events.
To delete an event you just need to click the rubbish bin icon.

Note

You can't delete events with entries, and attempting to will return an error message. If you cancel an event, you can hide it from the timetable, by going to advanced settings.

Editing an Individual Events¶

To Edit an event, you want to click the pen and paper icon, under the actions heading.
You will then see each value which can be edited placed in a white box.
To save your changes, click the tick, and to discard your changes click the stop sign.

Adding an event¶

To Add an event, you need to click the red plus button in the top right hand corner.
This will generate a new row, with blank values, allowing you to input them, like you see when editing an event.
To save your changes, click the tick, and to discard your changes click the stop sign.

Warning

The event table is still in a beta form.

Scoring¶

OpenTrack has a number of ways to calculate scores, of both teams using our pre-configured and configurable scoring methods, and for individuals in combined events competitions.

To utilise our team scoring methods, first you must define your teams, if you're unsure how to do this look at our teams docs pages.

All team scoring tables set up will be accessible from the competitions home page, while combined event scoring tables are accessible from the events/results button on home page.

Pre-Configured Scoring¶

Pre-Configured Scoring

We have a number of pre-configured scoring methods to conclude which teams wins the match. We have scoring for the National Athletics League, Oxbridge Varsity match, Surrey League XC, and many more. If you have a match which needs match scoring get in contact.

Configurable Scoring¶

If you want to see which team one a specific event, you can configure your own scoring table.

Concept¶

These scoring methods are primarily used for XC and road races. The basic concept is to filter a (possibly large) race and apply a scoring system to a sub-group of the runners. You do this by defining the Scoring Tables you wish to display. Each of these becomes a web page you can link to. So, for example, within a race of several hundred athletes, you can have multiple matches going on such as...

Men's or women's team of N runners
Mob matches where almost every runner counts
Age group competitions (e.g. M40/M45 team prize)
Age graded virtual team competitions, which engage everybody
A two-club match within a much larger race

Setting up a new configurable scoring table¶

To start click New and then you will see a blank form which allow you to define the rules of your scoring system.

Configurable Scoring

Configurable settings¶

Additional Settings¶

Allow non-scorers - If ticked non-scorers can score.
Allow incomplete teams - If ticked, teams which don't meet the value of "Scorers er club/team" can still have a team score.
Displacement - If ticked, athletes who are not in their clubs top number of athletes, can still help their club by displacing rival team members, reducing or increasing their score depending on how you're scoring.
Filter penalty Score to Category - ???

Special Rules¶

There are currently four special rules:

Three are Mob Match Rules:
- All runners in the smallest team count, which defines the number of scorers by the smallest team.
- Last runner in smallest team excluded - ???
- Last 2 runners in smallest team excluded - ???
The fourth rule is an Oxbridge varsity rules for the lower team, where the first 8 athletes score double.

Combined Events¶

Simply select the scoring table you wish to apply for your combined events and click SAVE

Basic Settings

Advanced¶

If there are multiple combined events during your competition, and some require different scoring methods to others (e.g.. Introducing WMA factors for Masters athletes, or the English Schools 800m factor), then click ADVANCED. This allows you to change the scoring method for individual combined events.

Simply select the scoring table for the event you wish to be different and click SAVE.

Advanced Settings

Custom Formula¶

If a specific event within a combined event uses a different scoring method then you can specify this via the custom formula method. For example, if, for some reason, you wish to score the heptathlon as per normal World Athletics rules, except for the high jump, which has a different formula, then you need to use this method.

1) Firstly select standard World Athletics scoring for the HEP, as described above. 2) Go to the EVENTS page and then scroll down and choose the Advanced Configuration for the event in question. So, in this example it would be the HJ for the HEP.

Custom Formula

The custom formula will always override any other scoring method selected. So, you keep World Athletics as the standard scoring for the HEP but input your individual formula for the HJ and then click SAVE.