Round Robin Tournament Scheduling

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Title: Golf weekend scheduling
Post by: Ronnie on November 22, 2016, 08:10:09 PM

I have 6 couples for weekend of golf (3 games) but am trying to organise each game with 2 men 2 women and no-one playing with the same person twice.  Is that possible? Going crazy trying to work it out. Can anyone help me please? 😥

Title: Re: Golf weekend scheduling
Post by: Ian Wakeling on November 23, 2016, 04:17:50 AM

I am not sure of the exact format of play within each foursome.  If all 4 players compete against each other, then what you ask for is impossible, as there must be pairs of people who compete twice as soon as round 2.  However if the format is like mixed doubles, then its possible to do better.  In the schedule below all partnerships are different and the only repeated opposition pair is F1 vs F2.

(M5 F4 v M6 F3) (M1 F5 v M3 F6) (M2 F1 v M4 F2)
(M2 F3 v M1 F6) (M6 F1 v M3 F5) (M5 F2 v M4 F4)
(M4 F6 v M3 F4) (M5 F3 v M2 F5) (M1 F1 v M6 F2)