Your lineup card shows where the six girls stand — but when? A rotation looks different at three different moments, and those are the three phases:
Skip defense. Do serve only. This halves the work and avoids a mistake.
Receive and serve are both rotational — the girls are standing in a legal order before the whistle, and the same cycle rules apply. My tests can check them. Defense is not: once the ball is in play, positions are tactical and the rotation rules stop applying entirely. Defense diagrams answer "what do I do during a rally", which is a different subject from "where do I line up", and it would fail every test I have written for the right reasons.
If defense turns out to matter to her, it is a separate conversation — not this worksheet.
Six serve formations take the total from 6 to 12, and that one number lifts three ceilings:
Before writing anything down, just look:
If the answer is "there aren't any" — stop. Tell me, and we go to Coach instead. Nothing below is worth doing on a guess.
For each rotation, write one of these six labels into each of the six boxes. Net is at the top, baseline at the bottom — same orientation as the card.
Write OH for both outside hitters unless the card distinguishes them —
if it does say OH1 or OH2, write that, because it settles a question I still have open.
If a girl is off court in a rotation, write —.
Type it, photograph this sheet filled in, or just say it out loud as six lines like
R1 serve: FL=S FM=M FR=OH BL=OH BM=L BR=RS. Any of those works.
I will author the entries, re-run the export, and the tests will tell us immediately if the serve formations contradict the cycle — which would be interesting rather than bad.
Green is what you already confirmed, shown so you can see the format and check you are reading the card the same way round. Fill in the blank column beside it.
The route that needs nothing from you. The Thread's shortage of clean formations can also be fixed from the other direction. At the overlap tier, any arrangement satisfying the six neighbour relationships is legal — so legal formations stop being scarce without a single new thing read off the card.
That is authoring work on my side and about an afternoon. It unblocks The Thread and gives Stories a second principle to induce, but it does not help The Whiteboard, which genuinely needs more real formations from the card. The two routes are complementary, not alternatives.