Round Robin Tournament Scheduling
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My wife is trying to create a schedule for 8, 2 person bridge teams meeting 8 times. Two hostesses each month entertain 3 teams or 2 tables of 4. She wants each team to play each other team at least 2 times and does not want some teams playing 4 or 5 times. She prefers the same couple host December & May. Her months are Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Mar. April & May.
Help we have wrestled with this and can't seem to figure it out.
Mark Wayne
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Can I assume that when 4 couples meet at a venue that they all play each other? This would mean that any one couple gets 24 games over the 8 meetings. With only 7 possible opponents then some teams will inevitably play together four times. If this is what you want, then the schedule below should work, where the couple who host are the first in each group of four.
(7 4 6 5) (3 1 2 8)
(4 2 5 3) (6 7 1 8)
(5 6 8 1) (2 3 4 7)
(8 7 5 2) (1 4 3 6)
(6 3 7 2) (4 5 8 1)
(3 8 7 4) (5 6 1 2)
(2 8 6 4) (7 1 3 5)
(1 7 2 4) (8 5 3 6)
Hope that helps,
Ian.