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Title: Pickleball 6 players
Post by: shaggy on August 25, 2023, 10:48:57 AM

searched but did not find a similar request
1 court, doubles play, rotate 6 players and 7 players where all play each other and same number of games
thank you

Title: Re: Pickleball 6 players
Post by: Ian Wakeling on August 26, 2023, 10:43:27 AM

There are no balanced doubles tournaments like this when the number of players is 4n+2, or 4n+3 (above you are asking about n=1).  If you are willing to compromise then the following might work for 7 players:

(B D) v (F G)
(C E) v (A B)
(D G) v (B C)
(E F) v (A G)
(C F) v (D E)
(B G) v (A E)
(A F) v (C G)
(D F) v (B E)
(B F) v (A C)
(E G) v (C D)

Above the pair (A D) never play in the same game together and they have only 5 games while the other 5 players all have 6 games. Apart from the pair (A D) all other pairs partner once and oppose twice.  I am not aware of anything similar for 6 players.