There are loads of options to customise you Game with TheBench™.
Up front there are two main choices you can make:
 

• Default League Templates:  Use an existing League Template into which you will create your competition
• Custom League: Create your own League into which you can create as many competitions, using the same settings, as you like.

 
You can think of the League as the top of the hierarchy where you would define field positions, scoring rules and other League level settings.  If you have created a Competition using a default League Template, these settings cannot be change.  You must create your own League to modify these settings.  Contact us if you created a competition using a default League template and want to upgrade to your own custom League.  Keep in mind that a custom League make have additional costs, depending on the Code.
 

League Level Settings:
Specifically, the following settings are defined at the League Level.  They can be modified from the League page.  If you don't have a visible League page, you have probably created a Competition with a default League template and so don't have access to these settings:
 
 

• League Name/Description: Name/Description for your League, use whatever you want
• Registration Code: Create a private Code for you League. Users will need this this code to create a Competition within your League.  This will allow you to limit who registers with your League, ie. only those for who you distribute your private code to.  Leave to field blank if you don't want to limit others creating a Competition with you League rules.
• Squad Change Limit*: Sets the maximum number of times a coach can make changes to their Squad throughout the season (ie. after the draft).  You can also choose to make this parameter modifiable at a competition level.  You would block this at a Competition level if you want all competitions to be evenly matched.
• Default Squad Size*: Defines the default Squad (number of Players listed by a Club) size for Competitions in this League.
• Finals Series Enabled*: If checked, each Competition will run a finals series in the last four weeks of the season with the top Clubs in the ladder playing off for the premiereship. If unchecked, no finals series will be run, the Champion will be the Club at the top of the ladder.  
• Enable Long Term Injury/Retired: If checked, each Competition can declare a Player as having a Long Term Injury or Retired and so will allow a free delisting, without effecting the squad change count.
• Enable Trading: If checked, Clubs within a Competition can freely Trade Players with one-another.
• Salary Cap*: Only applicable for Salary Cap Leagues. Sets the actual Salary Cap value, ie. the budget each Club has to draft their players.

 
Note: Properties marked with * are only applied to new Competitions, existing Competitions will remain unchanged.
 
A Custom League also lets you modify each of the Position on the field with the following settings:
 

• Add/Remove Position:  Add a new or delete an existing position.
• Priority: Sets position order. Used for automated picks, ie. the computer coach will pick a team in this order.
• Label: The label as shown for the position on the Coaches Box page
• Abbreviation: An appriviation for the position. This is used in the statistics tables to indicate a given position.
• Scoring Expression:  This is an expression that defines the way a given positions score is calculated. Each statistics point is defined by a name starting with a dollar sign, Basic mathematic operators can be used inluding +-/*. eg. $goals + $behinds.
• Field Position: These values define the placement of the given Position on the field, as seen on the Coaches Box page. The values are in pixels, measured from the top-left of the field.
• Bench: Check this option for the position to be an emergency position which will rotate with another field position if a picked player doesn't play.
• Report: Check this box to show the score for this position in statistics table on Coaches Box page. If you have multiple positions with the same Scoring expression, only one of the positions need to have this option ticked - otherwise the data is unnessesarily duplicated and makes the statistics tables too busy.
• Suggest: Check to use this position to provide player suggestions options for this position. If you have multiple positions with the same Scoring expression, only one of the positions need to have this option ticked.

 
 
Competition Level Settings:
Your Competition is the next level.  If you have created a custom League, you can create as many Competitions as you like using your League settings.  These settings can be modified from the Competition page.

• Competition Name:  Give your competition a Name
• Maximum Clubs: Limit the number of clubs that can sign up
• Squad Size:  If this option is enabled at the League Level, set the side of each Clubs squad.
• Squad Changes:  If enabled at the League Level, set the maximum number of changes a Coach can make to their squad during the season
• Last Trade Round: Limit the Trade window
• Last Squad Change Round: Limit the window in which a Coach can change their squad.  This can be used to limit Coaches dropping players late in the season for the benefit of Coaches who a going through to the finals.