Round Robin Tournament Scheduling

Mixed Double round robin 24 players

cdeephouse19027

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on: August 06, 2021, 06:22:40 PM
CPB is hosting a mixed doubles round robin tournament with 24 players (12 men & 12 women) with six courts and six rounds. The usual constraints apply: 
- each partnership should include one man and one woman
- partners should not play together more than once
- players should not play any opponent more than once (since we have just six rounds)

Ideally, each player faces east in three rounds and faces west in the other three rounds. I have seen this noted as a "Home & Away" constraint in other articles.

I don't have Microsoft Excel and the spreadsheet software I have cannot import Excel macros.

Any help you can provide is welcome.
-Chris


Ian Wakeling

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Reply #1 on: August 07, 2021, 11:49:42 AM
Any 6 of the 11 rounds that you can find here (see reply#3) should meet the first 3 of your constraints. Unfortunately the schedule does not consder east/west balance, but you may be able to improve things by swapping sides around for some of the games.


cdeephouse19027

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Reply #2 on: August 08, 2021, 11:56:48 AM
Thank you. This is helpful.