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"Diamond Scheduler Software Review"
Tony D. - OwnerOctober 2, 2018
STARTING PRICE
$99
per year
per user
EASE OF USE
4.1/5
Based on Capterra user reviews
Diamond Scheduler is a sports scheduling software that allows users to create schedules for various sports leagues and tournaments. The software provides tools to plan league details, generate schedules with algorithms to reduce conflicts, and export schedules to CSV or SportsEngine. Key features include scheduling for multiple leagues, divisions, and teams, as well as round-robin and across-division scheduling. The software also offers venue optimization and schedule-sharing features. Diamond Scheduler aims to help users simplify sports scheduling.
Provider
Cactusware
Located In
United States
Foundation
1998
Open API
Unverified
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Training
Documentation
Support
Chat
On-premise and cloud-based platform that allows sports leagues to create round-robin schedules & tournament brackets, manage venue bookings and export data in various formats.
Content Source: Diamond Scheduler
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Diamond Scheduler Reviews
Pros
The software is user friendly and easy to manoeuvre within the platform. It has the ability of scheduling all type of schedule like tournaments and regular season.
And customer service is amazing. The players love seeing their schedules on their phone.
I run a lot of leagues, different types, Diamond scheduler has done an amazing job helping me with all my issues. Highly recommend this program.
I have recommended it to many other Leagues over the years. Absolutely the best I could find and rep is awesome for support.
Cons
There are a couple of steps that if you miss them will slow you down.
It appears that you require me to say something negative so my comment is that it would be handy if he lived next door so I could see him personally.
When game times need to be assigned manually, some type of warning should be given if the time violates a conflict or a coach with multiple teams.
Trying to generate the schedule. Trying to figure out the right combinations of settings in order to get all the games scheduled can be very irritating.
"Diamond Scheduler Software Review"
Overall: This is great software, it is always being developed. I would highly recommend this software to anyone assigned this task.
Pros: This software was easy to install, easy to get started. The tech support was next to none, the developer was very responsive and helpful.
Cons: Some functionality was difficult to find or achieve, but again the developer was very responsive, and the instructions were clear and concise.
"Diamond Scheduler Review"
Overall: I use the Diamond Scheduler to produce schedules for baseball/softball, basketball, soccer, and volleyball. The number of teams has been 200-500. It has been useful to use different scheduling parameters for each of the leagues for the sport. We have some leagues with an uneven number of teams. The schedule for a league can be generated and then re-generated with different parameters to get a better outcome. If parameters are selected carefully and you concentrate on defining a sufficient number of game sites for all teams, a high percentage of games can be assigned automatically and the varied constraints are honored. The software package is also used to handle re-schedules and scoring. As I have gained more experience with the product, I have established some good tools to organize information for scheduling, to populate the required tables in Diamond Scheduler, and then to run the required permutations to produce the initial schedule. Support is handled by email. The responses are prompt and customer focused. Suggestions for enhancements can be made and some end up in the product.
Pros: All information required to schedule can be uploaded meaning the information can be gathered from multiple resources and collated in a spread sheet. All information from the schedule can be downloaded. Although it takes a bit to learn the impact of some parameters for scheduling, the variety can be used for different scheduling scenarios. Teams which cannot play at the same time can be marked with a common coach allowing the schedules for all teams to be viewed when reviewing the placement of teams for multiple teams. Conflicts for teams can be viewed when using the grid to re-assign time slots to games. The package includes some good displays which can be used to confirm teams are playing the assigned number of games and the distribution of opponents is appropriate.
Cons: When game times need to be assigned manually, some type of warning should be given if the time violates a conflict or a coach with multiple teams. You can check this later with varied reports but knowing that when placing the game would be helpful.
"Adult League Director"
Overall: This is easy when you have 30 or less teams to schedule. If you have anything more then it gets too challenging and time consuming.
Pros: I like that you can assign a person to the team to help with conflicts.
Cons: Trying to generate the schedule. Trying to figure out the right combinations of settings in order to get all the games scheduled can be very irritating. Sometimes it makes no sense when it tells you there were 10 games unscheduled when you have plenty of field space.
"Remarquable scheduling software!!"
Overall: I've been using this software approximately 25 years. I've been using it for hockey and ringette leagues.It's been so useful for any type of scheduling. Any questions or demands was easy with support team. Any request or add-on in the software was often done within days! Remarkable! You don't see this being done by any one else. Working with this software is stress free! There's no doubt in my mind this software can and will provide satisfaction to the teams that deserves a good schedule!!
Pros: This software provides users the ability to generate optimal schedules for any sports. The software is user friendly and easy to manoeuvre within the platform. It has the ability of scheduling all type of schedule like tournaments and regular season. Any questions or problem you may have, are answered fairly quickly.
Cons: I don't see anything wrong with this software.
"Does everything you want, if you know how to make it do it"
Overall: Diamond Scheduler can absolutely do what you need it to, as long as you can put the patience into figuring it out.
Pros: This software does just about everything you'd need it to do for scheduling a league. It also has third-party integration for syncing your schedule and scores with league hosting sites. The software is organized well and puts a lot of thought into making repetitive tasks more efficient. For example, you can set up a whole regular schedule by copy/pasting one day onto a range of dates in just a few clicks. The software also provides the flexibility to take into account your random exceptions, like if a team can't play on Fridays or if one person coaches two teams. After you have the software create the schedule, it still allows you to make manual changes as you need. There are also a ton of reports so you can check almost any metric you can think of -- are teams evenly distributed throughout the week; do they all play each other the same number of times; etc.
Cons: The software can be hard to learn, especially if you have a lot of requests and complications to your schedule. Support is there, but if you're someone who wants to do it themselves, it can take a bit of fiddling with to get the software to do what you want.
