Flex League is self-organized: there's no fixed schedule handed to you. You find opponents at your level, agree on a time and place, play, and report the score. These rules explain how rating groups, scheduling, scoring, and standings work so results stay fair and consistent across the league.

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• Members self-rate using standard NTRP levels — 3.5, 4.0, or 4.5 — when they register. Be honest: rating groups only work if everyone in them is genuinely competitive with each other.
• A league is split into rating groups for that season only — your group in one league doesn't carry over to the next. When a league opens, members are placed into a group based on their rating at that moment.
• If your game improves (or you get re-rated) mid-season, your new rating takes effect at your next placement — you finish out the current season in the group you started in. This keeps standings and championship seeding fair for everyone who's been grinding through that group all season.
• An admin can move you to a different group mid-season (a promotion or demotion) if warranted — this is the one case your group can change before the season ends.
• You can be registered in multiple leagues at once if more than one is running.

• There is no assigned schedule — you arrange your own matches with anyone else active in one of your rating groups.
• Use Find a Match to see suggested opponents. Players you haven't faced yet are surfaced first, then players who share your available days/times, then players close to you in skill rating — so the tool nudges you toward fresh matchups instead of always the same convenient two or three people.
• Set your availability (day of week + morning/afternoon/evening) and preferred venues on your profile so other members — and the matchmaking suggestions — can find a time and place that works for both of you.
• Once you've agreed on a time, log the match on the app so it appears on both players' calendars.

Agree on a format with your opponent before you start playing. Any of the following are supported:

A set score must be won by 2 (e.g. 6-4, 7-5) or settled 7-6 with a tiebreaker score recorded — the app rejects anything that isn't a legal tennis score, so keep track of games as you go.

1. Either player can report the score after the match.
2. The result starts out pending confirmation — it shows up in your opponent's "Results to Confirm" queue.
3. Your opponent can confirm it (agreeing the score is right) or dispute it. Whoever reported the score can't confirm their own report.
4. If nobody disputes a result within 2 days, it's automatically confirmed — silence counts as agreement.
5. Only a confirmed result counts toward standings, your win/loss record, and your skill rating. A reported-but-unconfirmed score sits pending and doesn't affect anything yet.
6. Editing a confirmed score reopens it to pending again — so a result can't be quietly changed after the fact without your opponent seeing it.
7. Disputed results go to an admin, who reviews the match and either upholds the reported score or corrects it. An admin's entry is final.

• If your opponent doesn't show up for a scheduled match, report it as a no-show. The match counts as a completed win for you — no scores needed.
• If a match has to stop partway through because a player is injured, report it as a retirement. The player who kept playing is awarded the win; any games already played can be recorded if you'd like, but they're optional.
• Be considerate — agree on a time you can actually keep, and give your opponent a heads-up as early as possible if you need to reschedule.

Standings within a rating group are ranked by wins (most first), then fewest losses as a tiebreak. Only confirmed, completed matches count.

Separately, every member also carries a skill rating (Elo-style, like chess.com) that updates after each confirmed result — beating a higher-rated opponent gains you more than beating a lower-rated one. It starts from your NTRP level (3.5 → 1400, 4.0 → 1600, 4.5 → 1800) the first time you play a rated match, and moves faster early in your history and settles down as you rack up more matches. It's meant as a finer-grained, always-current read on your level between NTRP re-ratings — it does not itself move you between rating groups.

Rating changes apply the moment a result is confirmed, not when it's reported — so a disputed score never has to be un-rated, because it was never rated in the first place.

• When a league ends, each rating group with at least 3 qualified members (at least one win during the season) gets its own single-elimination championship bracket.
• Qualification and seeding use your win total and games-won percentage across every match you played in that league, even if you were promoted or demoted to a different group partway through — but your seeding is applied within whichever group you finished the season in.
• Top seeds get first-round byes if the bracket isn't a perfect power of two.
• Championship match scores are reported the same way as regular-season matches.

• Standard tennis etiquette applies: call your own lines honestly, warm up briefly, and settle score disagreements calmly during the match — the app's dispute/confirm flow is the backstop, not the first move.
• Report scores promptly and accurately. Repeated disputed or incorrect reports may be reviewed by an admin.
• Your contact details (phone, etc.) are visible only to members you currently share an active rating group with — not to the whole league, and not to members you're only paired with historically.
• Be a good opponent: reply to scheduling messages promptly and confirm or dispute results within the 2-day window so the league's records stay current.
• Balls: each player brings a can. The winner takes home the unopened can.