Looking to do whist schedule with more players than courts?

[philmonti]

Is it possible to do a schedule with say 12 or 16 players with only 2 or 3 courts respectively?  I am new to all this and having  trouble understanding how to make it possible.  It is for a group that will play over multiple weeks with members having bye weeks of course.  Thanks in advance.  If this has been answered please let me know where to look. 

[Ian Wakeling]

How to schedule 12 players and 2 courts is described here.  It is possible to do this by rearrangement of the standard whist schedule for 3 courts.  I will reply about 16 players separately.

[philmonti]

Ian - Thank you so much.  I look forward to seeing the 3 court scenario.  Appreciate all your help. Phil

[Ian Wakeling]

16 players and 3 courts also by the same method - the byes are in the column with the square brackets. You probably want to mix up the order of the rounds/rows since at the moment player 16 has 5 byes in a row at the end of the tournament.

(16  1 v  9 14) ( 3 10 v 12 13) ( 6 15 v  7 11) [ 2  4  5  8]
(16  2 v 10 15) ( 4 11 v 13 14) ( 7  1 v  8 12) [ 3  5  6  9]
(16  3 v 11  1) ( 5 12 v 14 15) ( 8  2 v  9 13) [ 4  6  7 10]
(16  4 v 12  2) ( 6 13 v 15  1) ( 9  3 v 10 14) [ 5  7  8 11]
(16  5 v 13  3) ( 7 14 v  1  2) (10  4 v 11 15) [ 6  8  9 12]
(16  6 v 14  4) ( 8 15 v  2  3) (11  5 v 12  1) [ 7  9 10 13]
(16  7 v 15  5) ( 9  1 v  3  4) (12  6 v 13  2) [ 8 10 11 14]
(16  8 v  1  6) (10  2 v  4  5) (13  7 v 14  3) [ 9 11 12 15]
(16  9 v  2  7) (11  3 v  5  6) (14  8 v 15  4) [10 12 13  1]
(16 10 v  3  8) (12  4 v  6  7) (15  9 v  1  5) [11 13 14  2]
(16 11 v  4  9) (13  5 v  7  8) ( 1 10 v  2  6) [12 14 15  3]
(16 12 v  5 10) (14  6 v  8  9) ( 2 11 v  3  7) [13 15  1  4]
(16 13 v  6 11) (15  7 v  9 10) ( 3 12 v  4  8) [14  1  2  5]
(16 14 v  7 12) ( 1  8 v 10 11) ( 4 13 v  5  9) [15  2  3  6]
(16 15 v  8 13) ( 2  9 v 11 12) ( 5 14 v  6 10) [ 1  3  4  7]
( 2  4 v  5  8) ( 7  9 v 10 13) (12 14 v 15  3) [ 1 16  6 11]
( 3  5 v  6  9) ( 8 10 v 11 14) (13 15 v  1  4) [ 2 16  7 12]
( 4  6 v  7 10) ( 9 11 v 12 15) (14  1 v  2  5) [ 3 16  8 13]
( 5  7 v  8 11) (10 12 v 13  1) (15  2 v  3  6) [ 4 16  9 14]
( 6  8 v  9 12) (11 13 v 14  2) ( 1  3 v  4  7) [ 5 16 10 15]