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Creating your first league

From your dashboard, click + New League. The form has four decisions worth taking seriously, because they shape how the season's standings behave.

League name and venue

League name is required. Pick something humans will recognize, e.g. "Tuesday Trivia at The Blind Horse." This name appears on your dashboard, on the public standings page, and in the URL players will see.

Venue name is optional. Add it if the name of the venue isn't already obvious from the league name. It shows up on the public page as a secondary label.

Scoring type

Choose one of two season-scoring rules. Both can still coexist with a season of any length, the difference is how the season total is computed.

  • Total Points. The team's season total is the sum of every session they played. Simple, predictable, rewards consistent attendance.
  • Best N of M. Only each team's top N session totals count toward the season leaderboard, out of however many sessions the season ends up holding (M). This lets players drop their worst nights, which is especially forgiving for teams that can't make every session. When you pick this, a "Count top sessions" field appears, set it to the N you want (we cap this at 52, i.e. one year of weekly sessions).

You can change the scoring type later by editing the league, and the cumulative standings will recalculate automatically across every finalized session.

Tiebreaker rule

When two teams finish the season with identical totals, TotalUp breaks the tie using one of three rules:

  • Most sessions played - favors consistent attendance.
  • Total points - favors the team with more raw output across the whole season (useful when the primary scoring is Best N of M).
  • Most recent 1st-place finish - favors momentum going into the season's end.

Pick whatever matches how you'd resolve a tie verbally at your bar. You can change it later.

After you create the league

You're dropped on the league's page, where you can add teams, start your first session, and see the league's public URL. Your next step is running a session.