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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 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. 12 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. 10 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. 7 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 Ladder Leagues Run multi-division seasons with Elo ratings, automatic promotion and relegation, 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. 7 articles