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Richele

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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?

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Reply #1 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.
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Reply #2 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 that lists the pair combinations (I call them pairmutations) that are available for planning.
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