Round Robin Tournament Scheduling
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I want to make a schedule for 28 teams that play for 8 months. Each month four teams play each other. is it possible to make a schedule and have no two teams play each other more than once? Also, keeping numbers 1 - 7 in the first column, 8 - 14 in the second column, etc.
1 8 15 22
2 9 16 23
3 10 17 24
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
6 13 20 27
7 14 21 28
I think i need a miracle.
Thank You,
Sue Colella
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I want to make a schedule for 28 teams that play once a month for 8 months.
Each month four teams play each other. Is it possible to make a schedule and have no two teams play each other more than once? Also, keeping numbers 1-7 in the first column, 8-16 in the second column, etc.
Sincerely,
Sue
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Sue,
Unfortunately, what you are asking is impossible. Arranging players in columns in the way that you have specified means that a player can never play against the other 6 players within their column. This limits the total number of opponents to 21. However in 8 months of play a player must have 24 opponents, and as there is only a pool of 21 to choose from, this means that some of the opponents must be the same. All may not be lost, if you reduce the requirement to 7 months of play, then you can have all 21 possible opponents exactly once - to do this the use the foursome schedule for 28 players that you can find in the attachment available in this thread (https://www.devenezia.com/round-robin/forum/?topic=1115).
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Ian