Round Robin Tournament Scheduling

Odd request:  Euchre/Wii tounament 12 People

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lisalisa007

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on: April 17, 2008, 12:48:42 PM
Hi!

I'm hosting our neighborhood euchre night and wanted to do something a little different.  We have 12 people playing and for our 3rd "table" we are going to be playing Wii Bowling.  My problem is I can't figure out a schedule that has everyone playing at the 3rd "table" the same number of times.   :-[

I am not concerned about each player playing each other a certain number of times as I am about people getting to play Wii the same number of times.  

Can anyone help me out?   :-?

Thanks!!!
Lisa


Ian Wakeling

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Reply #1 on: April 19, 2008, 02:36:33 AM
Hi Lisa,

This is a tough problem, since having only 12 people restricts things a lot.

You didn't say exactly how many rounds you wanted to play, but I figured 6 might be about right, so here is my attempt at a schedule.

  Table 1      Table 2       Wii
(C F v I K)  (A D v G L)  (B E H J)
(B D v I J)  (C K v E G)  (A F H L)
(A H v D K)  (B E v I L)  (C F G J)
(B G v F L)  (C D v H J)  (A E I K)
(A E v G J)  (B H v F K)  (C D I L)
(C E v H L)  (A I v F J)  (B D G K)


Players play twice at each table and twice on the Wii.  When playing Euchre each player will have 4 different partners, the 8 opponents however will not all be different, so it's possible that schedules with better opponent balance do exist.


lisalisa007

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Reply #2 on: April 19, 2008, 08:02:00 AM
Hi Ian,

Thanks for the reply.  As it turns out, we had an extra player decide they can play last minute, so that puts us at 13.  I was able to use your spread sheet and put in 13 people and combined the 'courts' into tables.  This gives everyone 4 times at every "table" and everyone sits out just once.  Your spread sheet is awesome!  


Thanks again for your help!

Lisa