Personal seasons and team seasons

A season you made is yours alone; a season on a team is shared by every member. Which games can file under which, where each kind is managed, and who can change it.

There are two kinds of season, and the difference is who they belong to. A season you create for yourself is personal: you made it, nobody else can see it, and only the games you keep on your own can go in it. A season created on a team belongs to the team and is shared by every member — everyone sees the same season under the same name, the team's games file under it, and it is the same season for all of you rather than a copy each. Which kind a season is gets settled when it is created and never changes: there is no way to move a personal season onto a team, and no way to take a team season off one.

That is also the rule about which games can use which. A team game may only be filed under one of its own team's seasons, or under no season at all — both apps say so under the picker, "Team games use the team's seasons, so everyone sees the same one." A game you keep on your own takes only your personal seasons. Changing a game's team therefore clears its season, because the season it had belongs to the wrong side of that line.

On your phone

  1. On Home, tap your initial in the top right to open Profile, then tap Manage Seasons, under RECORDING. The filter sheet still gets there too — the sliders icon in the top right of the Stats tab, Filter stats, then Manage under Season — but that is the long way round now.
  2. Manage Seasons lists your personal seasons and nothing else. Tap a row to rename it or change its dates; the trash icon on the right deletes it.
  3. The + in the header is New Season, and it always makes a personal one — there is nothing on that form for choosing a team, the same distinction the website's own New Season button makes rather than an omission. The other way round still works too, and is handy when you are already filing a game: on a new or edited game, tap + New beside Season and name it there.
  4. For a team's, open the Teams tab, tap the team, tap the pencil in the top right, then Team seasons — the line under that row counts how many the team has.
  5. On that screen the + in the header is New team season. Each row offers Set as current, or shows a Current season tag if it already is, and the trash icon deletes the season for every member.
  6. In the filter sheet itself the seasons you can pick are grouped the same way the website groups them: My seasons first, then one strip per team.

On the web

  1. Open Seasons in the sidebar. On a narrow window there is no sidebar: the same page is Manage seasons, in the menu under the round button with your initial in the top right.
  2. Your own are listed first, under a Your seasons heading, and each team's are grouped below them under that team's name. The headings only appear once you have both kinds — with no team seasons at all it is simply one list.
  3. New Season, in the header, always creates a personal one. There is nothing on that form for choosing a team, which is the distinction made visible rather than an omission.
  4. For a team's, click Manage on team beside the team's name. The long way round is the same place: Teams, the team, the Members tab, then Team seasons under the Team settings heading — the grey text on that row counts what the team has.
  5. The team's own page is where the shared kind is managed. New team season creates one, Set as current marks the one the team is playing now, and the trash icon on a card deletes that season for every member.

Because a team season is shared, changing it is a change for everybody. Any member of the team can rename one, give it different dates, set it as the team's current season or delete it, and what they do lands on every member's screens — the delete warning says as much in so many words. That is the opposite of a personal season, where you are the only person who can see it or touch it in the first place. Nothing about either kind is locked to whoever happened to create it.

The team's current season is a separate idea worth knowing, because it is quiet. It is the season a new game for that team starts out filed under, and the one the season wrap opens on; it changes nothing else and it filters nothing. Nothing expires it either — when a season ends it keeps pointing there until a human moves it, which is why creating next year's season in October does not drag the team off the one it is still playing. A team's first season becomes its current one by itself. A team with no seasons yet has none, and that is the ordinary state rather than something missing.

One more thing that confuses people and is not a setting: the Active, Upcoming and Ended badges are worked out from the season's own dates against today, on both apps. There is no switch for them, so a season that ended last year reads Ended on its own. A season with no dates at all gets no badge, deliberately — it is a loose grouping of games rather than something with a beginning and an end, and "Ended" would be a claim about it that is not true.

If the same league is showing up twice, or a season is reading Unknown Season, that is the other seasons article rather than this one.

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