6 Team Round Robin

Those numbers make the six-team format remarkably practical. On three courts or pitches, a complete all-play-all event is just five sequential rounds — under two hours at 20 minutes per match. On a single court, fifteen matches spread comfortably across a day or a season.

The generator keeps the rounds balanced by construction: no team appears twice in a round, every pairing appears exactly once, and the order is deterministic — regenerate the same six names and you get the same schedule, round for round.

Match count in a round robin grows fast with team count: 4 teams → 6 matches, 6 → 15, 8 → 28, 10 → 45. Six teams sits where the format still feels compact (fifteen matches) but the competition is real — five different opponents each, a table that takes several rounds to settle.

Six also divides cleanly across venues: three matches per round means two or three courts eliminate waiting almost entirely. The step up to eight teams nearly doubles the matches; stepping down to four halves them but halves the variety too.

And in the double format, six teams is the largest count that keeps a home-and-away season inside ten rounds — the psychological barrier where weekly leagues start feeling long.

Publish the schedule before the first match — the print sheet carries the team names, the summary line (6 teams, 5 rounds, 15 matches) and every round in order. Captains can then plan arrivals around their own fixtures.

Track results round by round on the printed sheet or in the CSV export by adding a score column. After round five, the table ranks itself: wins first, then head-to-head, then difference — agree on the order beforehand.

If a late withdrawal leaves you with five teams, switch to the 5 team round robin page rather than patching: the regenerated schedule brings the bye structure back into balance automatically.