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Tennis league - singles

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puzzled

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on: December 15, 2008, 08:36:11 PM
Indoor tennis league - 3 courts and 9 players.  I have 10 weeks booked and need to schedule/rotate matches each week to give everyone the least amount of rematches against the same player(s).

Can anyone help?

Thanks.
« Last Edit: December 15, 2008, 08:36:45 PM by puzzled »


Ian Wakeling

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Reply #1 on: December 19, 2008, 03:03:25 AM
With 9 players there are 36 possible singles matches. As you have only 30 slots available rematches should not be a problem.  For example click on the schedules link above and display the round-robin for 10 players.  Ignore player 1 as this is the "ghost", now the remaining player in match 1 and the two players in match 2 are the three players that receive a bye in each round.  This will give you 9 rounds of play with exactly 6 matches per player.  You could create a 10th round from some of the matches in the second column.

Does this answer your question, or perhaps it's more complicated as there is time to play more than one match on each court?
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puzzled

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Reply #2 on: December 19, 2008, 05:20:01 PM
Well, my plan was to match 3 players per court.  Then player 1 (of court 1) would play player 2 while player 3 sits.  Then players 2 & 3 would play while 1 sits. And finally, 1 & 3 would play while player 2 sits.

This would be duplicated on courts 2 & 3 with the remaining six players.

And each week the groupings of 3 would be rotated to give players the most variation in opponents - minimizing repeat pairings.

Thanks.