Creating a friendly or tournament match
Friendlies are the dress rehearsals of your season — and administratively they are usually ghost matches: played, won, forgotten. A shame, because that is exactly where you test lineups and players. Creating one takes a minute.
Why you record friendlies too
In a friendly you try what you dare not try in league play: the young setter for a whole match, the new starting rotation, the outside hitter at opposite. Those are precisely the experiments you want to look back on — otherwise you are testing without learning. A recorded friendly gives your experiments numbers.
Creating one in a single form
- Open Match → New match.
- Fill in the opponent and date/time.
- Choose the type — league, friendly or tournament — so your overviews filter cleanly later.
- Set home or away, and attach your starting lineup right away.
The match now sits in the calendar and on match day it starts with one tap in live mode.
The type sets the lens
By labelling friendlies and league matches separately, you keep two separate truths: your league statistics stay clean (no flattered numbers from a knockabout against the fourth team), while the friendly data stays available for the question it existed for — did the experiment work? Playing a tournament with several short matches in one day? See planning tournaments.
Decide in advance what you are testing. A friendly without a question is just a practice with an audience. Write one line with the match — 'test: Lars setting the whole match' — and that evening's statistics have a purpose.
Frequently asked questions
Do friendlies count towards players' season statistics?
They are recorded and stay retrievable, but the type label lets you separate them from league matches in your analysis. That way experiments never pollute your league picture.
Should I keep the same lineup discipline for a friendly?
Especially then — it is your chance to test an unusual lineup under match conditions. Prepare it in advance as always; only then is the comparison with your regular lineup fair.
How do I plan a series of friendlies in pre-season?
Create them all in one session with the type friendly; they then appear in the team calendar and you can note a test goal per match. Three to five matches before the league starts is a common build-up.
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