Round Robin Tournament Scheduling
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Hi,
I’m trying to create a round robin schedule, and could use some help.
We are 24 players, across 5 courts, for a rotating-partners doubles tennis round robin. We will only have time for 9 or 10 rounds. I was thinking it might be best to divide the 24 players into two groups (by play level) to make the scheduling easier. For example, 10 players across 2 courts (8 playing, 2 sitting out each round) and 14 players across 3 courts (12 playing, 2 sitting out each round).
My questions are: is this the best way to split the players up? If so, could you give me a balanced schedule please for the 2 RR groups (of 10 and 14)? If not, what split do you suggest for 24 rotating doubles players across 5 courts with 9 (or 10 rounds)? And what would the best schedule be?
Thank you for any help!
Just an update here to help with the parameters I’m hoping to achieve:
- 24 players (can be split into 2 groups, I was thinking maybe a group of 10 and a group of 14)
- There are 5 courts available for each round
- A maximum of 10 rounds (9 would be better)
- Rotating partners so that each person plays with everyone once, and plays against each person at least once but not more than twice
Any help is much appreciated!!
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Here is a possible 9 round schedule. All the partnerships are different, and it almost meets your opponents once-but-not-twice criterion. In particular (1 13) never oppose in the 14 player group.
10 player group (2 courts)
( 9 10 v 6 5) ( 8 7 v 4 3)
(10 2 v 7 5) ( 6 9 v 8 1)
( 9 8 v 7 10) ( 3 2 v 4 1)
( 5 9 v 3 1) ( 2 4 v 6 10)
( 5 1 v 7 4) ( 8 2 v 6 3)
( 9 7 v 6 2) ( 5 10 v 4 8)
( 1 7 v 8 6) ( 9 3 v 4 10)
( 3 10 v 1 6) ( 4 5 v 9 2)
( 8 10 v 1 2) ( 7 6 v 3 5)
14 player group (3 courts):
( 4 11 v 13 9) ( 5 6 v 8 10) (12 7 v 14 3)
(13 6 v 11 14) ( 8 1 v 7 5) ( 9 2 v 12 10)
( 9 11 v 7 8) (13 3 v 2 12) (14 10 v 1 4)
( 5 10 v 12 13) ( 3 1 v 9 6) ( 4 14 v 11 2)
(12 1 v 11 7) (14 2 v 8 5) ( 6 3 v 13 4)
( 1 13 v 2 8) (14 5 v 9 3) ( 6 7 v 10 4)
( 2 6 v 9 7) (10 3 v 8 11) ( 1 5 v 12 4)
( 8 12 v 4 9) (11 6 v 5 2) ( 7 14 v 13 10)
( 5 9 v 7 13) ( 3 11 v 10 1) ( 6 8 v 14 12)
Note that the byes can not be balanced, so some players will have one more round than others.
Hope that helps.