Comments on: Generating Fixture Lists

By: Thomas David Baker

Thomas David Baker — Sun, 18 May 2008 09:00:10 +0000

Mike, you can get a play-only-once fixture list by just using the first half of the season generated by my fixtures generator. Hope that helps!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 18 May 2008 08:48:07 +0000

I love this application but I am a non-programmer and I was wondering if there is a simple way to adapt the code to allow each team to play each other only once rather than Home and Away?

By: brumalia

brumalia — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:25:42 +0000

Thanks!

By: joe

joe — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:17:37 +0000

if have a 12 team league teams must play each other 3 times can any one help cheers joe

By: m lang

m lang — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:49:51 +0000

hiya,

could you please help me ,i am the new fixture sec for our snooker league and this year we have five clubs each with 2 team total 10 teams who need to play each other 3 times,i have tried to put a fixture list together but i find it impossible. the teams have to play each other home and away but if team 1 is at home then team 2 must be away.
Could you please e-mail me if you can help or need any further inf
Thanks Martin

By: Davy

Davy — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:32:47 +0000

I must say I’m flattered. This whole thing works like majic. I was given a task to come up with a system to generate fixtures given the participating teams. I spent an entire night pondering over ths issue and ideas were all over and gat me pretty confused. I then decided to check if someone has done this and published for all to see and probably use. Just one search criteria gave me this solution. I must say that the net is as good as a life saver. I think I have all I need to get on with my life. Thanks to you!

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:48:59 +0000

Hey Thomas, i figured out what was going wrong, thanks for your help.

By: Thomas David Baker

Thomas David Baker — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:10:34 +0000

Hi Tim,

I think you’re having a problem with configuration rather than with the code. If I copy this code into a text file and call it Fixtures2.java I can issue the following at a command prompt:

$ javac Fixtures2.java
$ java Fixtures2 4

The first command compiles it and the second gives me a fixture list for four teams.

I would try getting that working before you worry about using it in an IDE or as part of a package, etc.

Hope that helps. Let me know if not.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:46:09 +0000

Hey Thomas, i’m doing my dissertion on a squash league fixture generator, and i was looking how you made your code. When i copy your code into JCreator and save it as the class name ‘Fixtures2′, it doesn’t work, it just comes up with the following, and i’m not sure why, any chance you could tell me why. Thanks Tim

javac: invalid flag: D:\\Tim\\Squash League\\Website\\Fixtures2
Usage: javac
where possible options include:
  -g                        Generate all debugging info
  -g:none                   Generate no debugging info
  -g:{lines,vars,source}    Generate only some debugging info
  -nowarn                   Generate no warnings
  -verbose                  Output messages about what the compiler is doing
  -deprecation              Output source locations where deprecated APIs are used
  -classpath          Specify where to find user class files
  -sourcepath         Specify where to find input source files
  -bootclasspath      Override location of bootstrap class files
  -extdirs            Override location of installed extensions
  -d             Specify where to place generated class files
  -encoding       Specify character encoding used by source files
  -source          Provide source compatibility with specified release
  -target          Generate class files for specific VM version
  -help                     Print a synopsis of standard options

By: Thomas David Baker

Thomas David Baker — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:04:53 +0000

I’ve updated the fixtures generator to optionally allow you to enter team names instead of the number of teams.