Teams & players
Creating teams, taking in members, handing out roles — and what settles once somebody has bowled.
Teams
A team has a name, a colour, optionally an image and optionally a captain. The colour is unique within the league: it is what makes the team recognisable in every list, every table and every schedule.
The captain and the squad are changed on the team page under Edit team: next to the name, the photo and the colour it says who leads the team and who plays in it — members of the league without a team are taken in there, and whoever has not bowled a game yet goes back out there. A captain sees the page for their own team; the captain themselves is appointed by the league management. The same assignment can still be made under Members, where the person is the subject rather than the team.
How many teams there may be is set in the league settings under Teams. That number is a hard limit — once it is reached, no further team can be created until the number is raised.
Removing a team after the schedule stands deletes the whole schedule with it; you generate a new one afterwards. The team's players stay members of the league and are left without a team.
The two ways into a league
Written down by the league management
Member without an account: first name, last name, optionally a DBV number, optionally a team. The entry belongs to the league. Whoever is written down this way appears in line-ups, results and the table like everybody else — they just cannot sign in. Names typed in lower case are saved with capital initials.
By invitation link
A link into the league, optionally tied to a team. When you create it you set how long it is valid and how often it may be used; the overview then shows status, expiry and remaining uses per link.
There are two kinds. The general link takes in whoever redeems it. The personal link hangs off exactly one existing entry: it can be redeemed once, and whoever redeems it takes that entry over, results, team, season and all. That is how somebody who has been bowling without an account gets one afterwards without a second entry appearing.
Name and DBV number
The league keeps its own copy of first name, last name and DBV number. That lets a league management write a name the way it should read on the print-out without working inside somebody else's profile.
When somebody changes their name in their own profile, the change follows only to where that copy is untouched. Where the league has written the name itself, it stays.
bowlinq does not show e-mail addresses: whether an entry has an account behind it is marked with an icon on the row — one member learns no more about another.
Roles and rights
| Role | May |
|---|---|
| League management | Everything in the league; as the owner also hand it over and delete it |
| Co-league management | The same, except handing the league over or deleting it |
| Captain | Edit and invite the members of their own team, set its line-up, enter and confirm its results |
| Player | Enter the results of their own match day; read everything else |
A captain has rights over exactly one team: their own. Another team is not open to them — neither for writing somebody down nor for inviting. Everything that touches more than one team — creating teams, handing out roles, the schedule — is the league management's.
The co-league management exists so that a league does not come to a halt while one person is on holiday. It is handed out under Members and taken back there as well.
What settles once somebody has bowled
Whoever has bowled a game this season no longer changes team and can no longer be removed from the league. Either would file results with a fixture they were never bowled in.
Removing a member without results takes their access to the league; results already bowled stay in the table in every case.
Where teams and players are shown
Players lists everybody in the league with place, games, scratch pins, pins including handicap, high game, high series, average and handicap. As long as nobody has a counting game, the league still stands there — alphabetically, without a place and without figures.
Teams shows the same for the sides: place, match days, points, pins, team average and streak.
Names and pictures lead to their own page from everywhere: a team page shows squad, form, records and who fetches the pins; a player page shows the average, the handicap curve, the placing, every single game and every match day bowled.