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Starting a match from a scoresheet

The official scoresheet already has most of what a match needs before the first serve: both teams, their players and shirt numbers, the venue and date, and every set's starting six. Start the match from the sheet's PDF and you don't type any of that by hand. Once you've coded the match, you can check it against the sheet to find a missed rally or a substitution you didn't code.

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Courtside reads only the PDF that eScoresheet prints (the FIVB scoresheet layout). Other scoring programs, and scanned or photographed paper sheets, can't be read yet.

The PDF is read on your computer. Nothing from it is sent anywhere.

Start a match from a scoresheet​

  1. Open the season, and on the main menu open the Matches tab.
  2. Under New match, click From a scoresheet….
  3. Pick the scoresheet's PDF.
  4. Review what Courtside read (see below), and pick the season team for each side.
  5. Click Create match.

The match opens on the starting lineup screen, with set 1's sixes already filled in from the sheet.

You don't need two teams in the season first: the sheet can add them.

If the PDF can't be read, the reason shows at the top of the screen, for example "not a scoresheet Courtside can read: no eScoresheet footer".

Review what the sheet says​

The review screen, New match from a scoresheet, starts with the competition, match number, date, time and venue from the sheet's header.

Then, for each team (the sheet's home team first):

  • Season team: the team in your season this sheet team is. Courtside picks one when the names match, or when one name is inside the other ("Harbour City" for "Harbour City VC"). Change it if it picked wrong, or choose Add Harbour City VC as a new team to add the sheet's team to the season.
  • A line under it says what creating the match will do to that team:
LineWhat it means
"Everyone on the sheet is on the roster."Nothing is added.
"Adds 2 players to the roster: #4, #17."The sheet has shirt numbers the team's roster doesn't. They're added to the team.
"Adds Harbour City VC with 14 players."A new team, with every player on the sheet.
"Uses the team picked; players it lacks are added."You picked a different team from the one Courtside suggested.
"Names differ (the roster is kept): #7 roster Marlow, sheet Marlowe."A shirt number is on both, under a different last name. Courtside keeps your roster's player. If the sheet is right, fix the roster after creating the match.

Below the teams, a table shows each set as the sheet has it: both teams' starting six (zones 1 to 6), who served first, the score and the number of substitutions. The referees' names follow it.

If you pick the same season team for both sides, the screen says "Pick two different teams." Click Cancel to leave without creating a match.

What the match gets​

  • The teams. The season teams you picked, or new teams from the sheet. A new team gets its coach and assistant coach from the sheet. A new home team also gets the sheet's hall and city as its home venue.
  • The players. Players on the sheet that a team's roster doesn't have (by shirt number) are added to the team in the season, so they're there for its next match too. Each gets their name, the libero and captain marks, and the sheet's licence number as their player code when no one else in the season already has it. Players already on the roster stay as they are.
  • The date and venue from the sheet.
  • The scoresheet itself, kept with the match. It fills in each set's six on the lineup screen, and you can check the coded match against it.
  • In the exported .dvw: the start time, competition, round, match number and referees. (A match you imported from a .dvw keeps its file's own header.)

The sheet doesn't record touches, so the codes still come from you.

Sixes from the sheet​

When a set starts, the lineup screen fills each team's six from the sheet: zone 1 is the sheet's position I, zone 2 is II, and so on. The Scoresheet line on the screen says "this set's sixes are filled in from it" and which team the sheet says served first.

Check the sixes, pick the setter if Courtside can't tell from the roles, and start the set. You can still change any zone. A six you've already entered always wins over the sheet's. See Sixes from a scoresheet.

The sheet's first server is shown, not used: type the set's first server as usual (see Who serves).

Attach a scoresheet to a match you already have​

You can add the scoresheet to a match you started by hand or imported, for example when the sheet arrives after the match.

  1. Open the match and the starting lineup screen (Starting lineup above the code log).
  2. On the Scoresheet line, click Attach scoresheet….
  3. Pick the PDF.

Attaching doesn't change the match's teams or rosters. Courtside lines up the sheet's teams with the match's by name.

On the same line:

  • Replace attaches a different sheet in place of this one.
  • Remove takes the sheet off the match.

If the PDF can't be read, the reason shows on that line, for example "not a scoresheet Courtside can read: no eScoresheet footer".

Check the match against the scoresheet​

  1. Open the starting lineup screen.
  2. On the Scoresheet line, click Check the match against it.

The Check against the scoresheet dialog compares every set you've coded rallies in:

  • The sixes: each team's starting six on the sheet against the six you coded.
  • The score: the sheet's final score against the coded score.
  • The substitutions: every substitution on the sheet, and every starter coming back, against your substitution codes, with the score each happened at.

When everything agrees, it says so: "Sets 1, 2, 3: the sixes, scores and substitutions agree with the sheet."

Otherwise it lists each difference by set:

DifferenceWhat to look at
"Set 2: Harbour City VC's six is 4 9 12 1 7 15 on the sheet, 4 9 12 1 7 16 coded"The lineup you entered for that set.
"Set 1: the sheet says 25:21, coded 24:21 (Harbour City VC first)"A missed or extra rally. The home team's score comes first.
"Set 3: Riverside Volley 8 → 14 at 10:12 on the sheet isn't coded"A substitution you didn't code.
"Set 3: Riverside Volley 8 → 14 at 10:12 on the sheet, coded at 11:12"The substitution is coded, at a different score.
"Set 4: Harbour City VC 3 → 11 at 5:6 is coded but not on the sheet"A substitution code with no match on the sheet.

In the substitution lines the substituting team's own score comes first, as the sheet writes it.

Either the coding or the sheet may be wrong. Check the video or the sheet before you change anything.

Run the check once a set has ended: in a set you're still coding, the score won't match the sheet's final score yet.

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The check compares the sixes, the scores and the substitutions. It doesn't compare timeouts or sanctions.