Position points
Finish-place points: N for 1st, N-1 for 2nd, and so on. The default. Rewards consistency across the season.
Best when: When you want every week to count equally.
Leagues
A season, not a napkin.
Weekly events bound to a recurring schedule. Substitute rules, partner rotation, flighting, playoffs, cumulative standings — every league concept you'd normally track in a spreadsheet, computed live from the scores as they come in.
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6 Weekly formats
2 Points models
3 Substitute rules
2 · 4 · 8 Playoff sizes
Points model
Pick how the season resolves. You pick once at league setup; standings apply it live.
Stroke aggregate
Cumulative net or gross strokes across the season; lowest total wins. Every stroke matters, every week.
Best when: When your league is one long stroke-play showdown.
Weekly format
Each week's slot picks its own format. Mix and match across the season; standings still add up.
Stroke Play
Standard gross / net stroke play. World-Handicap-friendly (caps blow-up holes at net double bogey).
Scramble
Team format — captain picks the best drive; everyone plays their next shot from there.
Best Ball
2- or 4-person teams playing their own ball; low team score per hole counts.
Stableford
Points per hole — eagle 4, birdie 3, par 2, bogey 1, double+ 0.
Match Play
1-on-1 hole-by-hole; win the hole for +1 to the match, ties halve.
Other / Custom
Alternate shot, greensomes, chapman, whatever the week calls for.
Substitute rules
Real leagues have absences. Bagpipe treats subs as first-class instead of an off-app afterthought.
Regular keeps sub
The absent regular is credited with whatever the sub scores. Standard for most member leagues.
Blind default
The sub keeps their own row; the regular takes a documented default (min points, event worst).
Sub takes it, regular zero
The sub earns whatever they score; the absent regular takes a zero for the week.
The rest of the mechanics
Everything a season commissioner actually reaches for — none of the spreadsheet.
Circle-method round-robin, one tap.
Generate the season's pairings once — everyone plays with everyone in a 2-person rotation. Groups of 3+ use a per-slot rotation offset. Commissioner triggers, doesn't auto-fire.
Live flights based on standings.
Set a flight count. Equal-size tiers by rank, or set manual cutoffs. Flights recompute on every standings read — never stale, never persisted.
Single-elim brackets: 2, 4, or 8.
Pick the size at season start. Round 0 seeds 1-vs-K, 2-vs-(K-1). Only winner picks persist; the bracket derives.
Standings compute live from every scored event.
Aggregates each bound tournament's leaderboard, applies your substitute rule, ranks by points or strokes. No stored leaderboard, no stale data, no reconciliation script.
Team-scope view for school + club leagues.
Owner or coach role sees a roster-first dashboard: team average, season W-L-T, per-player rank, form dots. Live from the same standings compute — no separate data path.
Coaching a school team?
Bagpipe Schools brings the same league mechanics to high school and college programs — with a Coach Portal built for the roster, the season stats, and the playoff picture.
Ready to start a season?
Set up a league, invite the roster, schedule the weeks. Bagpipe runs the standings.