Round Robin Tournament Scheduling

20 teams, 19 weeks horseshoe league

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cindi_m

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on: April 20, 2009, 02:36:47 PM
Hello,
This is a wonderful site.  I am trying to schedule the following scenario fairly for the upcoming horseshoe season.  We have 20 teams, 2 players each.  We play 19 weeks on 6 pits.  We have 6 early games and 4 late games each week.  I would like to make it as even as possible that each team plays each team once and that the early and late games along with the distribution of pits.  Can anyone help with this schedule?  Thanks!  I have attached a sample of my previous schedule.
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Ian Wakeling

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Reply #1 on: April 21, 2009, 03:45:46 AM
If you follow the schedules link above, then click on Balanced and finally dial up 20 players - then I think this will give you most of what you want.  Assign the first six matches to be early games on pits one to six, and the last four matches as the late games.  For the late games perhaps you should use only the 'best' four pits , then teams will play at least three times and at most four times on each of the best pits.  A team will either, play 11 early games and 8 late games, or play 12 early games and 7 late games.

My Excel file here (version 4.3) will give you a similar schedule.
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cindi_m

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Reply #2 on: April 21, 2009, 07:54:02 AM
Ian, Thank you for the response and spreadsheet.  Looks like this will work great.