League with some teams played twice and others once

[detmot]

Hello

Can you help with the following criteria?

17 teams - 12 teams played home and away, the other 4 played 2 home and 2 away
28 games for each team over 30 rounds, so each team has 2 byes
16 teams play in each round, therefore a maximum of 1 bye team per round
As far as possible, teams to have alternate home and away games

Thanks for any help you can offer.

[Ian Wakeling]

Have you seen my Excel file here?  If you ask it for 17 teams in home/away format and a double round robin, then, if I have understood correctly, you will get something close to what you want, you would need to drop the last 4 rounds.