Round Robin Tournament Scheduling

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tphsvbl13(Guest)

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on: October 23, 2013, 03:24:38 PM
I coach a volleyball team and I have 14 girls and I am trying to run a round robin tournament with those girls and I have only 3 courts.  Can you help with the set up and who the play against along with the byes?


Ian Wakeling

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Reply #1 on: October 25, 2013, 04:49:53 AM
A balanced schedule is not possible with 14 players, so you must accept some sort of compromise.  The schedule below has 15 rounds, where all pairs of players (apart from K&H) partner once.  So K and H are the two players who have three byes, while all other players have two byes.  Most, but not all, pairs of players oppose twice.

I have assumed you have two players per team, so I hope that is the case.


[(D J):(E M)] [(A L):(C K)] [(G H):(B I)]   FN
[(A F):(G J)] [(D E):(H I)] [(B C):(M N)]   KL
[(K M):(E H)] [(F I):(J N)] [(B L):(D G)]   AC
[(G L):(E N)] [(C H):(J K)] [(B F):(A I)]   DM
[(L N):(F M)] [(D H):(C G)] [(I J):(A K)]   BE
[(A M):(I N)] [(F G):(C D)] [(K L):(B E)]   HJ
[(G K):(I M)] [(D L):(A J)] [(B H):(C E)]   FN
[(A H):(L M)] [(C N):(G I)] [(F J):(E K)]   BD
[(C M):(A E)] [(I K):(D N)] [(B J):(F L)]   GH
[(C L):(B K)] [(A D):(F H)] [(E J):(G N)]   IM
[(B M):(D F)] [(J L):(C I)] [(A G):(H N)]   EK
[(D K):(A N)] [(E I):(C F)] [(J M):(B G)]   HL
[(E L):(D I)] [(H J):(B N)] [(G M):(F K)]   AC
[(H M):(I L)] [(A C):(E F)] [(B D):(K N)]   GJ
[(F N):(H L)] [(E G):(A B)] [(D M):(C J)]   IK