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Title: 8 people playing, switching partners and opponents
Post by: Richele on October 04, 2007, 07:05:07 PM

I believe there are 150 possible combinations for 8 people to play equally with a different partner and against different combinations of doubles teams on either court A or Court B.

I just don't have time to write it out . . .anyone?

Richele

Title: Re: 8 people playing, switching partners and oppon
Post by: Richard A. DeVenezias on October 05, 2007, 09:06:07 AM

Sounds like you want a balanced schedule.

Follow the pink boxed link to schedules, and click on Balanced.
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The Requests board also has a sticky topic for Balanced schedules.  The topic contains an Excel worksheet you can download.

Title: Re: 8 people playing, switching partners and oppon
Post by: Richard A. DeVenezias on October 09, 2007, 05:27:31 PM

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I believe there are 150 possible combinations for 8 people to play equally with a different partner and against different combinations of doubles teams on either court A or Court B.

There are 105 = 7 x 5 x 3 possible combinations.  A tournament schedule requires 7 different combinations such that there is no overlaps in pairings.  

See this page (https://www.devenezia.com/downloads/round-robin/pairmute.html) that lists the pair combinations (I call them pairmutations) that are available for planning.