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Title: 8 golfers for 5 week schedule
Post by: conjogolfers on March 04, 2013, 02:13:00 PM

I would like to schedule 8 golfers (2 foursomes) for a five week schedule.  Please help.

Title: Re: 8 golfers for 5 week schedule
Post by: Ian Wakeling on March 05, 2013, 02:43:53 AM

It is not possible to have a solution where all pairs of players meet at least twice within a foursome, the best that can be done is to have each player play three times with 2 of their opponents and only play once with 1 other opponent (the other 4 opponents are seen exactly twice).   For example:

(3 5 4 1) (2 8 6 7)
(5 7 3 8) (4 2 1 6)
(3 4 8 6) (7 1 5 2)
(8 3 1 2) (6 7 4 5)
(5 8 2 4) (1 6 7 3)