The ground must be free that day
VA-01Catalogue name: The venue must be available on the date
What it means
A ground must be free on the match date: not booked for cricket, a concert or another code. We check every booking we know about. A pass means "no known conflict", not a confirmed booking.
Why it exists
A game scheduled on a day the ground is unavailable is not a real fixture.
For example
If the MCGMelbourne Cricket Ground.Read more in the glossary is captured as booked for a concert on a Saturday in April, no game is placed there that day. If you know of a clash we have missed, flag it.
How strictly it applies
Must-follow The fixture must obey this rule. A separate checker tests the finished fixture afterwards.
Must-follow against every booking we have captured. No venue has confirmed any date, so the result is shown as "No known conflict", never "met". Before 30 September this rule was switched offNo checker could test this rule in this version. Not a verdict on the fixture.Read more in the glossary because the availability data was unverified.
Checked only in the current release, under a declared assumption: a venue is treated as available unless there is captured evidence it is booked. Captured blackouts are avoided. No venue has positively confirmed any date, so availability remains unknown rather than established.
Where to see it
Who plays where shows how this plays out across the season.
How it played out across versions
One cell per release, oldest first. Each shows the verdict that release recorded for this rule; a release with no row for the rule says so.
- Preview 13 September2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
- Preview 14 September (seed 42)2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
- Repeat-qualified (seed 42)2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
- Corrected (seed 43)2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
- Rules release (seed 43)2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
- B009 nominal (seed 43)2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
- B010 nominal (weight 0.10)2027 · Generated
Off, switched off, season data not sourced
season data not verified
- B011 nominal2027 · Generated
Off, switched off, season data not sourced
season data not verified
- B012 Wednesday opening2027 · Generated
No known conflict, met
- 20252025 season as played2025 · As played
Off, switched off by these settings
rule source not recorded
First checked independently in Realism rules added, 30 Sep 2026.
Related
For analysts: catalogue text and codes
- Rule id
VA-01- Catalogue text
- A selected venue must be available for the assigned match date (not blocked by cricket, concerts, or AFLW co-tenancy).
- Catalogue type
- Hard / structural — deferred
- Catalogue family
- Venue Availability
- Class
hard· The fixture must never break it.- Step
S3· Step 4: home ground and venue- Recorded status
met· source rowevaluated