Structure: Leagues & Divisions

Leagues and divisions let you build layered prizes into your pool — instead of one single winner taking everything, you can reward winners at multiple levels: a small prize for each division winner, a bigger prize for each league winner, and a top prize for the overall pool winner.

You can also use this structure to organize players into separate groups (for example, family in one division, coworkers in another) — but the main purpose is giving you more ways to award prizes and keep more players engaged longer, since someone can still "win their division" even after they're out of the running for the overall pool.

Most commissioners don't need this. If you're running a single pool with one prize for one overall winner, skip this entirely — your pool will work fine as a flat, single-group pool with no extra setup.

Your Four Options

You can run your pool as:

Flat (default) — everyone in one group, one overall winner. No setup needed.
Divisions only — players are split into divisions, each with its own winner and its own prize, in addition to the overall pool winner.
Leagues only — players are split into leagues, each with its own winner and prize, in addition to the overall pool winner.
Leagues + Divisions — divisions nested inside leagues, giving you three prize levels: division winners, league winners, and the overall pool winner. This is the setup for a "small prize / bigger prize / biggest prize" structure.

Setting It Up

From your pool's Settings page, open the "Advanced: Leagues & Divisions" section (collapsed by default). From here you can:

Enable leagues and/or divisions
Set how many of each you want
Set a maximum number of entries per division (optional — leave blank for no limit)
Turn on Auto-Expand, which automatically creates an additional division if one fills up, instead of capping out

Once your structure is set up, head to your Prizes settings to assign a prize to each level — division, league, and overall — so players know what they're playing for at every tier.

How Players Get Placed

When a new player joins your pool, they're automatically assigned to a league/division using a placement system designed to:

Spread players evenly across your divisions
Avoid putting two entries from the same player into the same division

If you'd rather review and manually place new entries yourself instead of using automatic placement, enable "Pending Placement" — new entries will wait in a pending area until you assign them from the Structure Management page.

Managing Structure After Players Join

From Pool → Structure, you'll see a visual board of your leagues/divisions with entries you can drag and drop between them. This is also where you'll handle any entries sitting in "Pending Placement" if you've enabled that option.

A couple of things worth knowing:

You can change division/league counts later, but the system will never delete a division or league that already has players in it — you'll need to move those players out first if you want to remove a group entirely.
Standings show all three levels at once. Players see an "Overall" tab for the whole pool, plus separate tabs for their league standings and their division standings — so a player can track how they're doing within their division, within their broader league, and against everyone in the pool, all from the same standings page.

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