In RackEmApp, a Perpetual is a Division or Competition that can span multiple seasons or iterations. The concept of a perpetual allows leagues to record history for winners and runners up of leagues and competitions. Perpetuals are accessed through League Management > Perpetuals.
The creation of a perpetual is usually performed in the necessary wizrd/area, so you do not create them here. However, you can edit them, and delete any mistakenly created perpetuals. it will not allow you to delete one where there is data present – for example, a division that has been used in a season.
You get the opportunity to edit 3 fields.
- Name – This is how it will appear in all lists. For divisions, it will update the name in all seasons.
- Active – If it appears as a selectable list in the new Division/Competition wizards
Roll of Honour
The Roll of Honour is generally automatically created on the completion of a season or competition. However there are occasions where you might want to correct a mistake, or more interestingly, populate your Roll of Honour with all the rich history your league from before you adopted RackEmApp.
The capabilities of the roll of honour depend on if you are looking at a Division or a Competition, and if a competition, if it is a Team competition or for individuals.
One commonality across them all is that a Roll of Honour record has to be linked to a Season. Here you can dynamiclaly create a historial “legacy” season for the purposes of this roll of honour. it won’t be used anywhere else other than Roll of Honour screens.
- Season name is required as a reference
- Season Start Date is needed purely for ordering the seasons. You don’t need an exact date, just pick one that places this season in the right place chronologically relating to your other seasons
- Season Player Statistics Name is the name of your “Hotshots”. it is linked to the Season so it can change seasonally if needed, but you can just fill it in with whatever makes sense for your league.
Division
For the divisional roll of honour you have to provide 4 items.
- Winning Team – This allows you to choose the Parent Team which all the history is linked to for this seasons runner up for this division. You can optionally set the “Seasonal” team name to be what that team was called that season. You can also create a New Team if you need to.
- Runner Up Team – This allows you to choose the Parent Team which all the history is linked to for this seasons runner up for this division. You can optionally set the “Seasonal” team name to be what that team was called that season. You can also create a New Team if you need to.
- Winner Player Stats – This allows you to search for, or create a new player that won the player stats for this season in this division.
- Runner Up Player Stats – This allows you to search for, or create a new player that was runner up for the player stats for this season in this division.
Competition (Team)
For team competitions, you need to select 2 items.
- Winning Team – This allows you to choose the Parent Team which all the history is linked to for this seasons runner up for this division. You can optionally set the “Seasonal” team name to be what that team was called that season. You can also create a New Team if you need to.
- Runner Up Team – This allows you to choose the Parent Team which all the history is linked to for this seasons runner up for this division. You can optionally set the “Seasonal” team name to be what that team was called that season. You can also create a New Team if you need to.
Competition (Individuals)
For Individual competitions what you see will depend how many people are in each entry. The example below is for a Doubles competition, but for singles you will only see on player for winner/runner up. You may need to alter the “Players Per Entry” field in order to make the player pickers appear.
You can then search for al create new players for each winner or runner up as is required.
