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Title: 6 team, 5 week, 3 event League
Post by: Murph74 on March 25, 2014, 04:13:23 PM

Hi all! I've spent MUCH more time on this than it should probably take, but can anyone steer me towards a formula that will help me set up a tournament style 'season' of 6 players over 5 weeks, each playing 3 different games against a different opponent each week? I guess the best terminology would be 'staggered round robin'.

I've tried doing it trial and error, and I've tried various formulas, but keep getting overlap. While several tools can do the 6 team round robin (the simple part), I haven't found any tools that allow for multiple events in one outing over multiple weeks (the part that isn't so simple for me!). Can this even be done cleanly? I'm confident it can, but I'm yet to prove it out! Thanks for any help!

Title: Re: 6 team, 5 week, 3 event League
Post by: Ian Wakeling on March 26, 2014, 02:42:52 AM

I am thinking that you can take the standard 6 team round-robin for event 1, and then rotate the rows around to get the schedules for events 2 and 3.

       Event 1             Event 2             Event 3
W1 (A D) (E F) (C B)   (E D) (B A) (F C)   (E C) (A F) (D B)
W2 (C A) (E B) (F D)   (B F) (D C) (E A)   (A D) (E F) (C B)
W3 (E D) (B A) (F C)   (E C) (A F) (D B)   (C A) (E B) (F D)
W4 (B F) (D C) (E A)   (A D) (E F) (C B)   (E D) (B A) (F C)
W5 (E C) (A F) (D B)   (C A) (E B) (F D)   (B F) (D C) (E A)

Does that work? Or have I not understood the format that you are looking for?

Title: Re: 6 team, 5 week, 3 event League
Post by: Murph74 on March 26, 2014, 04:52:35 PM

I think you nailed it. :) This is actually for a dart league with events of 301, 501 and Cricket each week in a pub. And I couldn't get the schedule to work out to where each team played the other 5 teams in each game once over the 5 weeks, but it looks like you did! Thanks for the help!