Lottery System for Courts

This would be a useful feature for our Pickleball Club also. If this is implemented, would like to have the ability to schedule when the "lottery process" occurs (ie: how many days and hours before the reservation slots occur) and the ability to designate the specific courts that are available for lottery (so that only a sub-set of courts are part of the lottery).

We have popular courts at particular locations.  We need a fair way to allocate all the requests for limited courts.  I would be nice to be able to select the courts within the lottery.

This suggestion was marked as Accepted 5 months ago. Does this mean a lottery system for courts is being developed? If so, how soon before it's ready?

Hi Scott, 

The Accepted tag means it's a project we think could be implemented at some point. When the status changes to In Development that means our developers are working on it.

• Just some thoughts:
  • Fairness consideration would be good here. The allocation process should aim to be fair within a given time period.
  • Our high-usage time slots are monopolized by a small percentage of our membership who are willing to get up early and race to make bookings.
  • Some members complain about disadvantages due to having to book for 4 players, or having a slower internet connection. A lottery system would help them too.
  • It would be great to be able to open up the lottery system for reservations a day or two in advance of the opening of reservation slots, so that closer to the date of play people could still just book what they want.