7 team round robin - only two games per day

[Tom]

We are planning a tournament with 7 teams which should be played in a single round robin mode on one pitch - however, due to time constraints we can only play two games per day in 11 consecutive days. Other condition is that each team should have a rest day after two consecutive match days.
I have seen all the schedules for 7 or 8 team formats - however they are all based on 3 or 4 matches per day and therefore do not really help.

Can anyone help me creating this tournament format?

Thanks!

Tom

[sixty]

here is a thought .. could you just take a 4 team schedule and split the matches into two days at a time trying to manually arrange them such that rest days worked out for your needs?

[Ian Wakeling]

Yes, this problem is probably small enough to find a solution by hand.  Running it through a search program however, gives me the following:
 

 T1    T2
(A E) (- -) 
(F G) (B C) 
(C E) (A D) 
(D F) (B G) 
(A C) (E G) 
(B F) (C D) 
(B E) (A G) 
(D G) (C F) 
(A B) (D E) 
(C G) (E F) 
(B D) (A F) 

Team A has the best timings, always having a rest.  Teams B, E and F have back-to-back play once, teams C, D and G, have two occurences of back-to-back play.

I believe that teams play 3 or 4 times at time 1 (T1) and 2 or 3 times at time 2 (T2).