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Requests / Re: Pairings Needed - Pickleball Fundraiser

« Last post by Ian Wakeling on March 01, 2024, 12:17:25 PM »

I would not recommend going with 20 players on 4 courts as you have outlined above. The balance you want is not achievable, and in the best possible schedule there will be dozens of pairs of players who partner and oppose more than once, and dozens more pairs who never play together.  The only way I see it working is if there are 25 players on 5 courts, and a total of 30 rounds, which I can look into if you wish.

To me 100 players seems too many as only 32 of them can play at the same time.  Could you split them into groups of 25 perhaps?

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Requests / Pairings Needed - Pickleball Fundraiser

« Last post by bryanfaz on February 29, 2024, 09:20:17 AM »

I'm trying to generate the round robin pairings for 20 players on 4 courts, 5 players per court, playing doubles, where each player partners with the other players 1 time. With 5 players to a court, each player will sit out 1 match per round. I would like for the groups to stay together in groups of 5 until they've played with the other 4 players, then rotate and repeat. If I'm not mistaken, this will translate into 19 total matches.

This is a pickleball fundraiser we're attempting to build. We have 8 total courts and could have over 100 players for a 1-day event. If anyone has a format they've used I would love to hear about it. We do have lights...and can play into the evening. I was thinking about regular scoring but to 9, win by 1, to speed the games up and reduce the time on court to a manageable level. 

All thoughts are appreciated!

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Requests / Re: King/Queen of the Beach

« Last post by kitch3 on February 28, 2024, 12:13:29 PM »

Ian could you generate a schedule for 16 players King/Queen of the Beach (3 courts)

16 Players (8 Male / 8 Female)
Every male plays with and against every female 1x 
Every male plays against each male 1x (and one other male 2x)

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Requests / Re: 10 Team Division - Home and away with shared grounds.

« Last post by Ian Wakeling on February 26, 2024, 12:23:11 PM »

Please have a look at this thread which shows you how.  You need to uncheck the "multi-table" box and select "do not randomize" then the teams who can venue share are next to each other in pairs.

[edited]  Sorry that wasn't quite accurate they are next to each other in pairs if you make a single round robin, but this is not the case for the double round-robin shown in the linked post.

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Requests / 10 Team Division - Home and away with shared grounds.

« Last post by Amjad on February 26, 2024, 04:49:19 AM »

Hi

Firstly, fantastic initative and a fantastic excel spreadsheet resource.

I am trying to organise a 10 team cricket division - that will play games on a home and away basis (and the spreadsheet does this great).  These 10 teams will share 5 grounds between them.

I wanted confirmation of which team letter should be sharing grounds - eg Team A and Team J should be sharing a ground, Team B and Team I should be sharing etc - to ensure that I do not end up with 2 teams on the same ground both expecting to play a game.

Appreciate any help with this.

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Requests / Re: 10 Team Quiz League with 3 Triangular Meets Per Night

« Last post by HillJackBob on February 24, 2024, 11:03:55 PM »

You are a godsend!   Thank you so much!

I've been in touch with the conference about making some needed changes, and hopefully, passing this along to them will allow them to see it my way.

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Requests / Re: 10 Team Quiz League with 3 Triangular Meets Per Night

« Last post by Ian Wakeling on February 24, 2024, 11:58:24 AM »

No need for chaos, there is schedule for this scenario.  For example take the 3 triangles from each of the 10 rows below and that is your 10 round schedule.



Notice that the 10 columns numbered 1 to 10 may also prove useful.  Each column could be a quiz master provided by one of the schools, so for example school 1 provides the quiz master in column 1 and they ask the questions for the 3 triangles in rounds 2, 6 & 9, if you do this for all the columns then no quiz master will ever ask the questions for a triangle that includes their own school.  The columns could also be the school who hosts, so no team competes at their own school.

I think I have it arranged so that the two occasions when a particular pair of teams meet are never in consecutive rounds.  Hope that helps.

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Comments and Thanks / Re: Round Robin Scheduler

« Last post by Ian Wakeling on February 24, 2024, 11:39:43 AM »

If you register as a user of the forum, and you are also logged in, then you can download my Excel spreadsheet here.  If that doesn't help then you are welcome to post in the 'requests' section.

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Requests / 10 Team Quiz League with 3 Triangular Meets Per Night

« Last post by HillJackBob on February 23, 2024, 10:59:39 PM »

Hello.  I'm a coach in an elementary school quiz league where our conference includes 10 teams.  Each night we have 3 triangular meets at 3 locations, and each week 1 team has the night off.  Right now the schedule is all messed up, there are 9 dates, some teams are playing each other 3 times, some just once, some teams have 0 byes, some have 1 bye week, and some have 2.  It's chaos.

I'd like to try to see if I could come up with a schedule with a 10th date, so therefore every team could have one bye week.  In that scenario, everyone SHOULD be able to play each other twice.  Can anyone direct me to a way to arrange these teams in this way.

i.e.  the first week could be (A B C) (D E F) (G H I) with team J on bye.  After 10 weeks, each team should have 1 bye, and have played each of the other teams twice.

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Comments and Thanks / Round Robin Scheduler

« Last post by Craig Sukenic on February 21, 2024, 05:48:54 PM »

I am very interested in downloading a copy of your round robin scheduler.  It will be very helpful to use for scheduling an upcoming charity pickleball tournament