Round Robin Tournament Scheduling

7-11 players, 5 games

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earthworm

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on: January 04, 2016, 01:53:26 PM
Hello-
I'll be running an online board game league that will be using 6 player pods playing round robin (after each pod-round, players are relegated up or down according to record).  The obvious problem with this is how to accommodate a number of players not divisible by six.  

I'm thinking that the solution is to have the bottom most pod absorb the excess players, so it would have between 7 and 11 players.  Ideally, I'd like those players to be able to play 5 games during the monthly round.  I'm OK with having a few of them with byes, but I don't want to require them to play more than 5 games.

I've managed to diagram how 7 players works, with no byes, and 8 players works with one player having a bye.  beyond that, it gets messy.  I don't have the math to do anything but draw lines between numbers written around a circle.  Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks!


Ian Wakeling

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Reply #1 on: January 05, 2016, 03:24:16 AM
I am not sure that I fully understand your question.  If there are 9 players (say), are you asking how to arrange them into games where 6 players participate in each one?