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How to use PickleFriend

Guides and reference for running mixers, ladder leagues, ratings, scheduling, and score entry — for organizers and players.

Getting Started New to PickleFriend? Start here: what the free pickleball mixer does, how to run your first session of fresh matchups, and what changes with a free account. 5 articles Nonstop Courts Start the next games as courts become free, instead of waiting for the whole round. What you gain, what it costs, and which of the three modes fits your night. 6 articles The Mixer — live round-robin generator The live round-robin generator — fresh partners and opponents deeper into the session, with fixed partners, gender formats, and courtside live controls. 13 articles Account & Dashboard Your dashboard is home base: manage groups and their settings, add or bulk-import players, organize subgroups, invite collaborators, and control your data. 13 articles Scheduling & Events Plan sessions ahead with the Scheduler: create events and recurring leagues, auto-invite subgroups, collect player RSVPs, and manage partners and waitlists. 11 articles Score Entry All the ways to record game results in PickleFriend — straight from the organizer's screen, from players' own phones, or hands-free with headless auto-mixing. 8 articles Ratings How PickleFriend's Elo ratings work: they build automatically from your recorded game scores, with placement games, inactivity decay, and manual adjustments. 5 articles Box League Box League help: boxes of four or five pick their night, play a round robin in one sitting, and phone in scores. Setup, score sheet, settling and movement. Overview Ladder Leagues Run multi-division seasons with Elo ratings, promotion and relegation you preview and apply each cycle, inactivity decay, and spares. 8 articles For Players Got a link from an organizer? Use your personal link to RSVP to events, enter your scores, and manage your player profile — no PickleFriend account required. 9 articles