Round Robin Tournament Scheduling

Tennis league - groups of 4

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cpkmc

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on: September 07, 2010, 05:34:12 PM
Hi -

I haven't been able to find a solution to this problem:

I have a social men's doubles tennis league of 10 players, where only 4 can play on a given night.  We have the court for 34 league games, and want to make sure that play is evenly distributed (i.e. a given player will not play in a foursome with another player  a disproportionate number of times)

Is there a way to do this?  We are not as concerned with who each person's actual doubles partner is (we'll figure that out when we show up) , as much as making sure that the foursomes are diverse.

Thanks
Chris


Ian Wakeling

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Reply #1 on: September 08, 2010, 03:32:33 AM
Chris,

I think you should be looking for a schedule of 30 games, as then you can make sure that everyone gets exactly 12 games each, and that every pair of players are together in a foursome exactly 4 times.  The schedule below has this property, and in addition, if you assigned the partnerships as I have indicated, then all pairs of players would partner each other once or twice, and oppose each other 2 or 3 times.  Finally all players have 4 games in the first 10 rounds, 4 games in the second 10 rounds, and 4 games in the last ten rounds.

Hope that helps,

Ian.

(1 7 v 4 3)
(2 6 v 10 8)
(2 8 v 5 4)
(3 7 v 6 9)
(3 9 v 1 5)
(4 8 v 7 10)
(4 10 v 2 1)
(5 9 v 8 6)
(5 6 v 3 2)
(1 10 v 9 7)
(1 5 v 2 7)
(4 6 v 9 10)
(2 1 v 3 8)
(5 7 v 10 6)
(3 2 v 4 9)
(1 8 v 6 7)
(4 3 v 5 10)
(2 9 v 7 8)
(5 4 v 1 6)
(3 10 v 8 9)
(1 10 v 5 8)
(7 6 v 2 4)
(2 6 v 1 9)
(8 7 v 3 5)
(3 7 v 2 10)
(9 8 v 4 1)
(4 8 v 3 6)
(10 9 v 5 2)
(5 9 v 4 7)
(6 10 v 1 3)
« Last Edit: September 08, 2010, 03:47:02 AM by Ian »


cpkmc

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Reply #2 on: September 08, 2010, 02:06:31 PM
Great!  Thank you so much!

Chris