Round Robin Tournament Scheduling

8 players, 2 courts, about 36 weeks

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Eloise

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on: August 23, 2016, 04:58:06 PM
I'be been using the "sample tennis doubles schedule with rotating partners and opponents" for 2 courts and 9 players for 10 years (wonderful!), but now we have 8 players! I can't deal with logarithms, sorry!


Ian Wakeling

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Reply #1 on: August 24, 2016, 02:30:02 AM
If you click on the 'schedules' button near the top of this page, then click on 'whist' you will get a basic schedule for 8 players and 7 rounds which has partner and opponent balance.  5 copies of this would give you 35 weeks.   To avoid repeating exactly the same doubles match-ups, for each copy make a different random assignment of the 8 player names to the numbers 1 to 8.   Also randomly assign the two matches in each round to the two courts, since as it stands player 8 will play on court 1 for 7 weeks in a row.


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Reply #2 on: August 24, 2016, 10:10:21 PM
Thanks - I'll give it a try.