WhinPadel Express
For your usual group, not for a club. You type the names, the draw and the schedule build themselves, and you share a link. No sign-ups, no accounts, and it never shows up in search.
Free. You edit it with the password you pick when you create it.
Court 1
Nico / Bruno
vs
Iván / Tomás
Court 2
Leo / Diego
vs
Pablo / Martín
Sitting out: Álex
You choose when you create it, and you can switch it while no results are in.
Groups in the morning, bracket in the afternoon.
Pairs are split into groups, each group plays a round robin, and the best go through to a cross-seeded bracket: quarters, semis and final. The table and the matchups work themselves out as you enter the scores.
Quarters
1ºA
2ºD
1ºD
2ºA
1ºC
2ºB
1ºB
2ºC
Semis
One round a week, a different partner each time.
The calendar pairs everyone with everyone: over a season you play once with each of them. With an odd number of players one sits out each round, and that rest rotates, so nobody sits out twice before the rest have done it once.
Court 1
Nico / Bruno
vs
Iván / Tomás
Court 2
Leo / Diego
vs
Pablo / Martín
Sitting out: Álex
Same partner all season.
Round robin by sets, with a standings table and tie-breaks by head-to-head, sets and games. When it ends you can open a knockout stage with the top pairs.
Just the names, the way you call each other in the group. Nobody has to sign up, confirm an email or install anything.
One button splits pairs, groups and calendar. You can fix who sits out on day one or tweak a pair by hand; everything else falls back into place.
It goes out on WhatsApp and opens on any phone. Anyone with the link sees times, pairs and standings; changing anything needs the password.
The club side of WhinPadel handles registrations, payments, categories and ranking, because an open tournament needs them. Among friends that gets in the way, so it isn't here.
Give it a name, pick a password, and it exists. With that password you can edit it; without it you can only look.
It doesn't appear in WhinPadel's search, it isn't in any public listing, and it carries noindex, so it stays out of Google too. The link is the only way in.
Someone drops out on Tuesday: mark them absent and a guest steps in, or whoever was sitting out that week. Points and standings recalculate without touching the rest of the calendar.
Heads-up: the tool itself is in Spanish. This page is the part that speaks English.
Creating it takes less time than sorting the group out over WhatsApp.
Create my competition