Score entry

Used in: 4. Register and build the site · 8. Run the day

The score dialog: enter, correct or clear one match's score without opening the workbook. It opens from Match Finder in Control Center for a signed-in operator, and from the scorer page for scorer staff with a scorer link. Both use the same dialog.

Turning it on

Score entry is a setting on the event, scoreEntry, in event-data/config/events.json:

Setting	What it means
"scoreEntry": "console"	Signed-in operators enter scores in Match Finder.
"scoreEntry": "links"	Operators can, and scorers can with a scorer link from Mission Control. The event also needs its scorer page.
(absent)	Score entry is off. Nothing in Match Finder is clickable.

Every venue's workbook must be shared with the API's service account as Editor, so it can write the score. Putting the workbook in the event's folder under 1. TOURNAMENTS does this; see Usage step 2. Mission Control's Scorer links switch moves an event between "links" and "console". It never turns score entry on or off.

Opening a match

While signed in, every match in Match Finder carries a small ✎ Enter score hint, or ✎ Edit score once it has a score. Click a match, or focus it and press Enter, to open the dialog. On the scorer page, tap a match. Signed out, nothing is clickable.

For a team event the clickable parts are the match lines inside each matchup card. Live Matches, Standings and Awards stay read-only. A BYE can't be scored. In a standard or dual-meet event a match whose players aren't decided yet opens read-only and says so. In a team event a match with no lineup can still be scored, with a warning.

The dialog puts the people first. For a pair, the two players' names are the bold headline of each side and the team code is a small tag beside them. For a team, the team name leads and the players sit underneath.

The two steps

1. Enter. The two sides sit in the same order as the sheet, team 1 on the left. Each score takes up to two digits. Enter moves from the first box to the second, and from the second to the next step.
2. Review. The winner is named in the largest text, above the score, so a pair of scores typed against the wrong sides shows up before anything is saved. A tie reads Tied — neither side wins this match. Anything unusual is listed as a warning and never refuses the save: a tie, neither side reaching 11, a win by one point, a score over 21, a series game that isn't needed because the series is already decided, or a team match with no lineup. Pressing Enter twice in a row on the last box does not save: the second press is ignored for a moment after Review appears.

Save writes both scores into that match's cells of the venue's workbook and publishes the venue straight away, so pages update within a few seconds, just as if someone had typed the score in the sheet. A message at the top of the screen confirms it. A big workbook can be slow to answer: after a few seconds the dialog says it is still waiting, and a save that gets no answer in two minutes says so. Saving again is safe, because a score already in the sheet is not written twice.

Corrections and clearing

Opening a match that already has a score shows that score in the boxes, and Review adds Was 11 – 9. Clear score, on the first step, empties both cells again, after a Review that reads Clear the score of match #42.

Who entered a score

After a save that changed the score, both score cells of the match get a Google Sheets note (the small corner triangle) listing the last five score-entry edits, newest first:

11–7 · Ana (Courts 3–4) · Oct 8 14:32 · was 9–11

A line has the score, the label of whoever saved it, the Manila time, and the score it replaced (was …, left out when the cells were empty). A clear reads cleared · Scorer link · Oct 8 14:40 · was 11–7. A missing side of a half-filled earlier score prints ?.

The label is the Issued to and Note the operator gave when issuing the scorer link (Ana (Courts 3–4)), or Scorer link if it was issued with neither. A save made in Control Center reads Control Center. The label says who the link was issued to, not who typed.

Anything a person wrote in the same note stays, below the score-entry lines, and is never trimmed. A save that changes nothing leaves the note as it is. The note is written after the score and the publish, and is best effort: if it can't be written the save still succeeds. Notes are for the people running the workbook and never reach the public pages.

When the sheet changed

If the match's cells changed since the dialog opened (someone typed into the sheet, or another operator or scorer saved), nothing is written. The dialog shows what the sheet reads now and what you entered, and offers Keep the sheet's score or Replace with yours. If the match number now belongs to a different pairing, the only choice is Close. While the dialog is open, a note appears under the scores when a new snapshot shows that the sheet's score changed. The boxes are left as they are.

When a save fails

• Publishing failed. The score reached the sheet but the update could not be published. A warning says so. Use Resync this day now on Mission Control. A scorer is told to tell the operator.
• The workbook is not shared. The dialog names the service account to share it with.
• The sign-in expired. The dialog says so. Sign in on Mission Control and save again.
• Scorer links are stopped. The save is refused until the operator sets the switch back to Accepting.

9. When something's wrong lists these with the fix.

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