For your padel group chat
Golden Set runs your Americano and Mexicano nights — automatic draws, live scores, and a season table your group will argue about all week. One link in the chat. No app. No sign-ups for your mates.
Built in Britain for the padel boom — 1,000,000 players and counting.*
The Tuesday Night Lot
Season table
| # | Player | Form | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Priya | ▲29 | 1071 |
| 2 | Marta | ▼7 | 1047 |
| 3 | Sam W | ▲9 | 1027 |
| 4 | Ayo | ▲4 | 1010 |
| 5 | Jonesy | ▲11 | 994 |
Round 6 · Tue 18 Aug
How it works
01
Type in your regulars — Dave, Priya, Jonesy. That’s the whole onboarding. No emails, no passwords, no “verify your account”.
02
Everyone sees the leaderboard, the draws and every scoreline — straight in their browser. The group chat is the app.
03
Fair Americano draws, balanced sit-outs, live standings and a rating that quietly settles who’s actually the best.
The formats
Everyone plays with everyone. Each round, partners rotate so you team up with (and against) as many different people as possible — our draw engine guarantees zero repeated partners for 8 players across 7 rounds, and spreads sit-outs fairly when the numbers are awkward.
Points split a fixed pot per match — first to the season table wins the bragging rights.
Courts are re-drawn every round from the live standings — the top four battle it out on court one, with 1st & 4th vs 2nd & 3rd keeping every match tight. Win and you climb. Lose and you face the consequences.
Round one seeds from your group’s Golden Rating, so it’s spicy from the first serve.
King of the Court and team Americano — on the roadmap.
A real group, live
This is a live Golden Set group — every draw, score and rating below was produced by the same engine your group would use. Priya’s been top since week two and mentions it constantly.
The Tuesday Night Lot
6 nights · 56 matches · 8 regulars
| # | Player | Form | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Priya | ▲29 | 1071 |
| 2 | Marta | ▼7 | 1047 |
| 3 | Sam W | ▲9 | 1027 |
| 4 | Ayo | ▲4 | 1010 |
| 5 | Jonesy | ▲11 | 994 |
| 6 | Tom B | ▲7 | 983 |
| 7 | Dave | ▼19 | 936 |
| 8 | Becks | ▼33 | 932 |
The Golden Rating
Every player carries an Elo-style rating that moves with every match — weighted by the share of points you win and the strength of who you beat. Sneak a 13–11 past the top pair and you’ll feel it in the table. Batter the bottom pair 20–4 and you’ll earn… almost nothing. As it should be.
Ratings right now
Why we built it
Padel groups live in WhatsApp. So Golden Set is a link, not another download-verify-allow-notifications ritual. Your mates tap, they see the table, they start typing excuses.
Nobody should spend Tuesday lunchtime doing combinatorics on a whiteboard photo. Our engine balances partners, opponents and sit-outs properly — tested maths, not vibes.
No ads, no selling your data, no “premium” tricks mid-match. Free groups are genuinely useful, and Club costs less than one court hour a month.
Pricing
Run real nights free, forever. Upgrade to Club for unlimited history, deep stats and head-to-heads — £4.99 a month for the whole group. That’s about 60p each. Less than the post-match Lucozade.
Questions
No. You share one link; it opens in any browser and shows the leaderboard, draws and live scores. Only the organiser touches the controls — via a private organiser link.
Three safety nets. Any device that has opened your group finds it again under “Your groups” on this homepage. If you’re the organiser, both links can be re-copied from the group page any time. And if you added a recovery email when creating the group, write to hello@goldenset.club from it and we’ll restore your organiser link. Worst case, the public link is still sitting in your group chat — scroll up.
The engine handles awkward numbers with balanced sit-outs — over ten rounds with five players, everyone sits exactly twice. Nobody gets stitched up.
Tap them out on the session page. Their points stay on the board, future rounds are drawn without them, and if they’ve strapped it up and want back in, tap again. You can also pick tonight’s points per match (16/21/24/32) when you start each night.
Americano rotates partners so everyone plays with everyone. Mexicano re-draws courts each round from the standings, so matches stay close and dramatic. Golden Set runs both.
Free for real weekly use — up to 12 players, recent history. Club is £4.99/month (or £39/year) per group for unlimited everything. Founding groups during the beta get Club free.
Yes — the formats work for any rotating-doubles sport. We’re padel-first, but your Thursday pickleball crew is welcome.
*Padel participation: LTA, May 2026 — from 15,000 GB players in 2019 to 1,000,000 today.