Round Robin Tournament Scheduling

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Title: 5 Teams
Post by: De_Sven on September 03, 2008, 02:15:30 PM

Hey,

This is my problem. I'm in a Futsal team. And I want to organise a one-day tournament.
The tournament is with 5 teams in round robin. The problem in my sheldule is that a team can not play 2 matches in a row.
I tried some things but their is always 1 team that plays 2 matches in a row.
Hope someone can help me

Thanks!

Title: Re: 5 Teams
Post by: wbport on September 03, 2008, 04:12:31 PM

I can come up with this:

   5 or 6 players
Rd:       Pairings:
1:    1-6   5-2   4-3
2:    6-4   2-1   3-5
3:    2-6   1-3   5-4
4:    6-5   3-2   4-1
5:    3-6   2-4   1-5

but, assuming you ignore the first column (the team playing 6 has a bye this round) and play the games sequentially (left to right) then move on to the next round, teams 3 and 4 would play consective games.  Could you schedule a break between rounds 2-3 and later after round 4?

Title: Re: 5 Teams
Post by: De_Sven on September 03, 2008, 05:59:37 PM

I think you misunderstand it. The tournament is with 5 teams not with 6.
So every team plays 4 matches.
So every team need to rest once.

But a team can not play 2 matches in a row.

Title: Re: 5 Teams
Post by: tgardner on September 03, 2008, 07:03:48 PM

Hello,

Try this ...

(4-5), (1-2), (3-5), (2-4), (1-3), (2-5), (3-4), (1-5), (2-3), (1-4)

Tim

Title: Re: 5 Teams
Post by: De_Sven on September 03, 2008, 07:47:35 PM

Waw, thats what I wanted.
A pitty that 4 always need to rest 2 matches but thats the way it have to be  :)

Thank you very much!!!

Title: Re: 5 Teams
Post by: tgardner on September 04, 2008, 09:45:21 AM

You are welcome - I had just been working on various schedules for a round robin billiard tournament with limited tables and the desire to balance the rest periods for each player.  I went back and checked to see if their was a better solution to your problem per your team 4 comment.  I could not find one.  It seems that requiring all teams to have at least one rest period between their games forces one of the teams to always have two rest periods between their games...