Adventures in Computer Programming
I’ve made my fixture generating code available via a web page for those who don’t want to delve into programming in order to generate a fixture list.
Fixtures Generator (now in PHP as I didn’t want to have to install Tomcat again). Source code.
You’re currently reading “ League Fixtures Generator ,” an entry on bluebones.net
having just taken over as a fixture secretary, this generator has been an absolute godsend.
IN THE FIXTURE GENERATOR IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE THEM HOME AND AWAY ALTERNATELY
This is as good an algorithm I can find for home/away matches. No one should get more than two home or away matches in a row. If you look at something like the English Premiership teams often get two home or away matches in a row there too. There may be a better algorithm that gives a better spread but I am not aware of it.
Nice, I like it.
I wrote one of these many years ago, lost it and am writing another. One problem with yours that I overcame, is that I’m looking at writing the program for a local pool league where we have the issue of TWO teams from the same venue. These teams obviously cannot play at home on the same night. There may be may such venues, and my last program ensured that 1&2 were never at home (or away) in the same week, 3&4, 5&6 etc…
This functionality had a trade off … alternating home/away games became a bit erratic. I’m hoping to improve on that this time round.
“There may be may such venues”
should read
There may be many such venues
Actually, there are “complementary teams”. For example in a league of ten teams for each pair from 1 & 6, 2 & 7, 3 & 8, 4 & 9, and 5 & 10, both are never both at home.
More than two teams from the same venue might be problematic. You can see a fuller explanation at http://www.barrychessclub.org.uk/berger2001.htm
I beg to differ, mate. 2 & 7 are both away in round 3, and both at home in round 4.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not criticising. I’ve recommended this website to a friend who is arranging a 15+ man round-robin pool competition at his pub, where home/away is not an issue.
True. Damn. That isn’t the case in the Berger algorithm so there’s obviously a bug in my code. Will look into it.
Sorry to point that out. Like I said, I’m working on it as well (albeit in C), so if I crack it, I’ll let you know.
OK, found the bug - I was flipping the home/away for the team that stays still BEFORE doing the interleaving instead of after. The version linked above now has the “complementary teams” feature.
Right! I guess I’ll chuck my effort into the bin, then 
That looks pretty damned perfect to me … nice one. I’ll still progress mine as a programming training exercise (it’s been a long time, and I need to get back into it). I’ll use your solution as a benchmark for my programming expertise.
Well done, and cheers.
This is super - has cut out a lot of work for our Netball League.
your site added to favs
Cheers
This is very helpful site mate. Was looking for a non-complicated generator and this is perfect.
Excellent. I was struggling trying to manually do fixtures for a pool league of ten teams where four sets of two teams share a table and need to play ‘alternate’ nights. With this rule in place, I think it would be impossible for everyone to play alternate home and away matches.
We have 20 ,with 5 times per day, for 5 days.Is we require each player to play each day, but with different people. tee times are 8 minutes intervals can you help
Any chance of a league program to go with the generator?
Additionally, have you used Moisystems Dataase ? (ps, the letter ” ” (one that comes after “a”) doesn’t work. I’m getting a new keyoard.
superb effort this has saved me so much time as i am secretary of 5 leagues all with differant numbers of teams thank you very much. I also own a Darts shop and i am thinking of having a website built and wondered if i could include the generator on my ste for free use to any one who needed help with their fixtures ? Thats it for now and once again thanks
Please feel free to use this anyhow you wish. The only caveat is that the source code is released under the GPL which means if you alter that then you have to release your new version under the same license and make it available to others. But in terms of linking or doing whatever you want with the results, etc. please go ahead.
Hey, what does “Byes” mean?
This generator is superb!
Byes are, “The position of one who draws no opponent for a round in a tournament and so advances to the next round.” (dictionary.com)
I’ve kind of misused the term here just to mean the match where the odd team goes. It means, “no match” effectively. For when there are odd numbers of teams and one is always spare.
Very efficiant fixtures generator. My dad had previously made one where you could put all the teams in and was easier to look at but he took ages making it and this one is simple and easy. Well done!
it’s very usefull.Thanks for to shape.
This is a great generator. I’ve recently began compiling fixture lists for a local amateur football association with three divisions. Because I could not find anything on the web (and I’m not a Techi) I have had to manually create fixtures, this will undoubtly help. I was wondering though if there is a generator that could be used that replaced the numbers with team names and if dates could be configured into the script / code. I know it is possible, however I’m not a techi and do not know how to write the scripts / codes. Can anyone help.
This is a great backup system if our generator breaks down.
Really useful generator. I would like a copy of the source code if possible but the link above returns a 404 error. Could you possibly arange to get the link fixed or email it to me? Thanks
Thanks for letting me know Pjc. I’ve fixed the link.
This is tantalising. I have just taken over a league and need to generate fixtures for 15 teams. I have tried your link and get ‘This page is part of Bluebones.net’.
Have you fixed the link
Should all be working again now. Have moved to a PHP implementation so I don’t have to install Tomcat again. If anyone needs the PHP source code please email me or put a comment here.
HI!
great code!
I would really like to see the source it it is possible.
Thanks for it!
T.
OK, source code at http://bluebones.net/fixtures.txt
Enjoy!
Thanks for this, am a new ladies darts secretary and struggling to do the fixtures for the new season, this has certainly helped and saved me a lot of time.
Im creating some fixtures with 10 teams, but some with more than two teams in the same division or other divisions. Whats the rule for avoiding clashes at home??? eg 1v 10 never clashes Thanks
“Complementary teams”, that is - teams that never play at home at the same time as each other. For example, try 10 teams — for each pair from 1 & 6, 2 & 7, 3 & 8, 4 & 9, and 5 & 10, both are never both at home.
how do i access the fixture generator?
I cant seem to get past the how many teams page
ta in advance…..dave
You just put in the number of teams you want and press Enter. I should probably put a submit button under the box but that will work for now.
cheers spot on just what we needed would have taken all night
Is there any easy way to make a mirror out of that?
You can take the source code and put it on any PHP-enabled webserver.
can anyone think of another way to generate the fixture?
Hi ‘Name’. Not sure what you mean. What is it you are looking for?
I’m a little confused. I’ve just generated a league for seven teams, and I have examples of 1 & 6, 2 & 7 clashing at home or away. See below:
Round 1
1 v 8
2 v 7
3 v 6
4 v 5
Round 2
8 v 5
6 v 4
7 v 3
1 v 2
Round 3
2 v 8
3 v 1
4 v 7
5 v 6
Round 4
8 v 6
7 v 5
1 v 4
2 v 3
Round 5
3 v 8
4 v 2
5 v 1
6 v 7
Round 6
8 v 7
1 v 6
2 v 5
3 v 4
Round 7
4 v 8
5 v 3
6 v 2
7 v 1
Matches against team 8 are byes.
Use mirror image of these rounds for return fixtures.
Am I missing something? I thought that these combinations represented two teams from the same venue?
Which teams are complementary varies with how many teams you have. For 7 teams the following combinations never play at home at the same time: 1 and 5, 2 and 6, 3 and 7.
Hope that helps!
Hi,
Thank goodness for a quick search on google - was about to sit down and write a fixture generator in PHP and now that I have found yours, I will be using it instead.
Excellent job and thanks for sharing.
Hi,
First off, well done and thank you… this has really helped us out at this stage of our leagues!!
I was just hoping however you would be able to help me with something…
I am feeding ’seeded’ teams into the generator. I.e. We have a system for judging who we think will end up winning the league, so they are ‘team1′ and the team that our system determines will come second will be ‘team2′ and so on.
It would be fantastic if the last matches were between seeded teams number 1 and number 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, and so on…
So that the last round is an climax for the leagues with the (estimated) TOP teams playing their last matches against their closest rivals! Making for very tense matches if the rivals are drawing or very close together on the league!!
I am really keen to get this up and running in the next few days, any feedback and help would be really appreciated!! 
I will post anything I develop back here!
Thanks again!!
Hi Chris,
I’m afraid I don’t know any way to have this happen algorithmically. I would just look at the last couple of weeks and slot your teams in based on who you want to be playing whom in those weeks. That’s the only thing I can think of I’m afraid. Let me know if you come up with anything any better.
Thank you very much for your prompt reply!
I will work away at the problem then report back!!
Feel free to mull it over for a while then post any updated thoughts you have here… I will keep coming back here with updates and to check for feedback / input!
Hi,
It became clear as soon as I started doing this with ‘pieces of paper’ that it would be extremely difficult to make it happen programmatically…
It would be a very nice project to work on for fun… using some type of goal seeking system like Genetic Algorithms… but it is far beyond my ‘bang for buck’ desire with this!
The option I’ve gone for is switching round 2 and the final round. This is because no matter how many teams you generate fixtures for (2+ of course)… team 1 and team 2 play each other in round 2.
Switching them is a VERY quick and simple way to get the two top seeded teams competing in a climatic end to the season!
Thanks again!
P.S. I will check back here for updates and feedback… I will also post here if I go down the goal seeking road!
Thanks again for your time!!
very well done you have taken the headache out of this enjoyable game of football(soccer)
Thank you so much. You saved me hours of time!
How can I do merit listings
Dowhatnow Harmen?
Greetings,
please can someone help ??
i need to generate fixtures for a league that has 3 sections of 12 teams; i have very fussy teams in my league and they all insist on a weekly home and away rotation.
I have tried the links above, but there always seems to be at least 2 home or away games on the bounce. Does anybody please know a way to generate these fixtures?
any help greatly appreciatted
many thanks.
Hi Kevin,
I think your teams are going to have to become less fussy. There’s no way to achieve this that I know of.
Thanks Thomas,
i suspected so, just needed confirmation from someone else.
I appreciate you taking the trouble to reply,
cheers
kevin.
Try http://www.footballadmin.org and look at the trial package
Hello, iam spanish, sorry abiut my english…
This is a great code!!Iam trying to convert it to Visual Basic, but it´s too difficult, i have made some.
If someone could help, we could finish it and put here the code too.
Hi mahoni,
You might be best off copying the original algorithm into VB rather than trying to convert my code.
http://www.barrychessclub.org.uk/berger2001.htm
Hope that helps,
Tom
Bufffff, I have bee trying but it´s all in english…
I think that i am going to let it as imposible because i can´t find it anywhere else!!!
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your code is good and clean but if anyone is just looking for a quick fixture list and not interested in the code this site offers the best fixture list generation around:
http://www.fixturelist.com/createalist1.php
C.
That is a little more user-friendly than my fixture generator which is just bare bones - http://bluebones.net/fixtures.php
However, it only supports 8-32 teams and teams can have three home games (or more?) in a row. So on balance I prefer mine! Perhaps I ought to dress mine up a bit nicer.
Excellent resource but I need to calculate for one extra level:
Golf league comprising 40 players playing as pairs (different partner each week).
40 players each playing with a different partner each week. I can use your system to generate 39 different pairings per player.
However each pair needs to play against another pair each fixture and I need to try and minimise the number of times each player plays against the same opponent. The system will ensure they will never play against the same pair of opponents, but how do I ensure the number of times they play against the same opponent is kept to a minimum (of two?).
Hi Martin,
I think you’ve stumbled upon a variation of the “Social Golfer Problem”. This is an unsolved problem in mathemtaics, although solutions for some particular instances have been produced.
You can read a bit more at
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SocialGolferProblem.html
and see some known results at
Hi, this code looks really good, however i am struggling to think of a easy method of making the program to mirror the fixtures, i would be most grateful if you could tell me the solution,
Many Thanks
You just need to loop through the rounds in the other direction. It would be long these lines:
for ($i = sizeof($rounds) - 1; $i >= 0; $i--) {
foreach ($rounds[$i] as $r) {
print reverse_ha($r) . “<br />”;
}
print “<br />”;
}
print “<br />”;
You’d have to define reverse_ha to flip either side of the ” v ” (a small lesson in the fact that strings are not good data structures!)
First of all great code !
Its nearly perfect.
If someone could implement the reverse fixtures it would be complete.
I tried to reverse the line
$rounds[$round][$match] = ($home + 1) . ” v ” . ($away + 1);
to
$rounds[$round][$match] = ($away + 1) . ” v ” . ($home + 1);
and this does print the reverse fixtures, but I am a newbie to php and struggling to make it do the whole lot together.
Please help !!!!
Many thanks.
OK, I added a bit of code to make it do the second half of the season or tournament, too. I’m not sure it adds to the clarity but it makes some things easier. The (far from perfect) code I used was:
print "
Second half is mirror of first half
“;
$round_counter = sizeof($rounds) + 1;
for ($i = sizeof($rounds) - 1; $i >= 0; $i–) {
print “
Round ” . $round_counter . “
\n”;
$round_counter += 1;
foreach ($rounds[$i] as $r) {
print flip($r) . ““;
}
print ““;
}
You can still get the latest source code from http://bluebones.net/fixtures.txt
Hi David
I know absolutely nothing about computer codes but have found your generator nice and simple to use, just like me. I have been using it for a couple of years and now even easier since you have put the mirror image in, though it wasn’t all that difficult to do for myself.
Whay would be really useful though would be an option to input team names so that instead of you code reeling out a numbered schedule it would actually print out the fixture list. I’m sure lots of people especially computer illiterates like myself would find this dead helpful and most of time saving, especially when like myself you have multiple divisions to compile fixture lists for.
Go on give a go! Respect to you if you can.
Many thanks, Matt
Whoops, its Thomas David not just David, sorry told you I was simple please still try anyway
Matt
OK Matt, I’ve had this request a few times now so I’ve updated the fixtures generator to optionally allow you to enter team names instead of the number of teams.
Absolutely brilliant site mate - as someone who maintains a league I know that you often get more queries than praise so I think you should give yourself a good pat on the back.
Added this to my favourites now too.
i know this mite be a pain in the neck but i generated a 16 team fixture for a darts leauge and there are 3 teams that can’t be home at the same time and my head is pounding at the moment is there anyway you could help me by giving me 3 teams that never play at home together.
thanks for any reply
if not i will figure it out…
… i hope
Hi Craig,
It’s a hard problem, I’m afraid. I don’t know any algorithmic way to turn out a fixture list like that. I’d have to just tinker by hand like you I’m afraid!
Thanks so much for this - releasing the source code is very generous of you.
Hi, This solution is great!
it certainly saves a lot of time, our problem is this.
40 venues of a pool league, 14 teams per division, 5 divisions and many teams table sharing, it gets worse, the table sharing isnt always in the same division, then we have venues that have multiple tables and teams and want half home half away every week, along with table sharing…..:)
so although you have saved me many many hours, i feel our ultimate solution will never exist
wouldnt it be nice though 
A couple of things I would change. Rounds 1-9 should be followed by rounds 18 back down to round 10 (1-9 then 18,17,16,15,14,13,12,11,10). Also is it possible to have the first 2 rounds of a season having every team play at home and away?
A couple of things I would change. Rounds 1-9 should be followed by rounds 18 back down to round 10 (1-9 then 18,17,16,15,14,13,12,11,10)…
A quick method is to change the line which is.
for ($i = sizeof($rounds) - 1; $i >= 0; $i–) {
to
for ($i = 0; $i
what i meant to say was to change it to.
for ($i = 0; $i
Sorry Ben I think Wordpress ate your code.
You’re talking about a league for 19 teams? Would your change also improve things for 4 teams, or 34? If so, I’d be keen to see the code!
Thanks, Tom
I am desperately trying to find a way to organise the following fixtures…. any guidance?
We have 7 teams who play in groups of 3 (matches are short so by playing in groups of 3, they can play 2 matches each date i.e. A v B, B v C, C v A) - everyone should play each other twice over the season i.e. 12 games each in total.
The byes are confusing me… does your program cover these options..
I am a volunteer sports organiser NOT a programer so any help gratefully received!!
Interesting problem Cara! I don’t think you can use the existing code but I think I have found an answer for you.
The original algorithm works by laying out the teams around a two-column grid then rotating all of them but one while leaving the remaining team fixed in position. If we apply that principle to 3 teams instead of two then we need a grid with three columns. For instance, for 12 teams it snakes up and down like this:
1 8 9 2 7 10 3 6 11 4 5 12
In this example the groups would be (1 8 9), (2 7 10), (3 6 11), (4 5 12) for the first round of matches.
So then the next arrangement would be (leaving team 1 fixed in place but rotating the rest):
1 9 10 3 8 11 4 7 12 5 6 2
For six teams we only need two rows in our grid (still with three columns). We leave the 1 fixed in position and rotate the rest:
1 4 5 2 3 6 1 5 6 3 4 2 1 6 2 4 5 3 1 2 3 5 6 4 1 3 4 6 2 5
And that’s the complete set of fixtures for six teams.
For seven teams we have the added complication that one team must “sit out” each round. We represent this but having a fourth column in the final row of the table. Whichever team is in that spot does not play that round.
The rounds for seven teams then become:
1 4 5 2 3 6 (7) 1 5 6 3 4 7 (2) 1 6 7 4 5 2 (3) 1 7 2 5 6 3 (4) 1 2 3 6 7 4 (5) 1 3 4 7 2 5 (6)
This set does not include a round where team 1 sits out, though. By a process of elimination that round looks like this:
2 4 6 3 5 7 (1)
I think that’s right!
You may want to swap around the order of these rounds to balance out when teams play each other. I haven’t looked at how even that is distributed.
Good luck with the league!
hi, the code i was trying to post can be found on
http://www.elyttl.org/upload/fixture.phps
and the php file looked at
http://www.elyttl.org/upload/fixture.phps
i have changed some features to make it work for my needs, new features include dates and free weeks.
second one was meant to be .php remove the s at the end,
also i changed the second mirror play order
Hi, thanks for this little beauty of a programme. It has certainly helped sorting my fixture list out. Our league will be increasing from 6 to 8 teams next season and I wondered if there is any way the generator could prevent particular teams playing their matches at the same time? i.e. I entered the 8 team names and one team always come out first in each round, as our matches kick-off at 9.30am, 10.30am and 11.30am I was hoping that each team would end up with approximately the same amount of kick-off times.
But don’t bust a gut, I’m grateful to have the fixtures organised with 10seconds of entering the team names!
Thanks again
Hello
Just took over as fixture Sec….. i have 3 Divisions of 16 teams starting in August (11th as its football)… can you help..tried the system above and got 17 teams fixtures, when i only put 16 teams in ? also some of the teams share a pitch is there a programme that will allow me to do fixtures but make sure these do not clash … thanks in advance? and sorry to be a pain!
Hi Gary,
I guess that perhaps you left a trailing carriage return in the teams box and the program mistakenly thought there was a team there with no name. I’ve changed the code so that won’t cause it to flip out and add an extra team from now on.
The “complementary” teams that don’t ever play at home at the same time for 16 teams are 1 and 9, 2 and 10, 3 and 11, 4 and 12, 5 and 13, 6 and 14, 7 and 15, and 8 and 16 (I think).
Hope that helps.
Very neat. An issue I have is with an odd number of teams. Because the second half is a mirror of the first half, one team misses two weeks in the middle of the season. Would it be neater to skip the first repeat (i.e. the final set of the first half) and place that set at the end of the second half? The trade-off, of course, is a repetion of home or away fixtures but I feel this is preferable. Trivial example with three teams:
1 bye 2v3 3 bye 1v2 2 bye 3v1 (all as per your existing program) Current Suggested 2 bye 3 bye 1v3 2v1 3 bye 1 bye 2v1 3v2 1 bye 2 bye 3v2 1v3
NICK
Is there any way I can have to confrences of 8 teams. I want to make it so each team in the same confrence plays each other twice and the 8 teams in the other confrence once. Can you have a look for me please?
Nick - That double-skip in the middle when there is an odd number of teams is definitely not pleasing. Perhaps the solution is not to use the mirror image for the second half but rather to just repeat the same weeks with home and away swapped?
Josh - That’s not something this program can do right now. I’ll try and have a look at it when I get a chance. You could use the existing program to generate the intra-conference games for now.
Hi Thomas,
How would I go about adding an insert table row into this script?
I want the fixtures to be added into my table.
Home_Team | Away_Team is the format. Thanks!
Hi Dan,
You’d need to replace (or augment) the print statements with some SQL stuff. Alternatively if this is a one-off you could transform the output into SQL statements with a few “search and replace”s. There’s lots of options but this code is more demo standard than beautiful. If you’re going to build a proper reusable program with it then it definitely needs cleaning up! I never knew so many people were going to use it else I’d have done it properly in the first place!
Cheers, mate. You’re a star.
Fantastic format. Saved me a couple of night’s with a committee!! thanks.
Your bloods worth bottling.
I need to generate a Sunday league fixture list for ten teams, team one cannot play home on the first and third sundays in the month, teams two and nine use the same venue so both cannot be home on any given date, any suggestions
Hi Derek,
the fixtures generated by this program have the “complementary teams” feature where some teams never play at home at the same time as others. The teams that have this feature are 1 and (n/2 + 1), 2 and (n/2 + 2), etc. where n is the total number of teams.
So my suggestion is to generate the fixtures using this system with the complmentary teams in the right “slots”. Then chop and change the fixtures around until your other constraint is satisfied. Hope that helps!
Thank you for the BEST fixture compiling tool I have ever come across. Simple to use and just brilliant. Can say no more higher praise than this. The complementary teams pairing facility solved about 4 of the problems I was having instantly. Thanks again!! Best regards.
There are a translation of this functions in vb.net?
I am currently creating fixture lists in Word. By applying the Search/Replace function in Word one can get a complete fixture list after a few keyboard clicks.
The following example is a fixture list for a league with two divisions - one with 10 clubs and one with 12 clubs. Clubs with the same capital letter but different numbers (1 or 2) are always neighbour clubs (never playing at home in the same league round), and this applies both within a division and between the divisions.
If anyone is interested in mt Word fixture sheets just email me and I’ll send them (free of charge, of course).
Here’s the example (if I can copy it into this message field in completion):
ROUND 01 CLUB A1 CLUB C1 TEAM A1 TEAM C1 ROUND 01 CLUB B2 CLUB D2 TEAM B2 TEAM D2 ROUND 01 CLUB C2 CLUB A2 TEAM C2 TEAM A2 ROUND 01 CLUB D1 CLUB B1 TEAM D1 TEAM B1 ROUND 01 CLUB E2 CLUB F2 TEAM E2 TEAM E1 ROUND 01 CLUB F1 CLUB E1 ROUND 02 CLUB A2 CLUB B2 TEAM A2 TEAM B2 ROUND 02 CLUB B1 CLUB A1 TEAM B1 TEAM A1 ROUND 02 CLUB C1 CLUB F1 TEAM C1 TEAM C2 ROUND 02 CLUB D2 CLUB E2 TEAM D2 TEAM E2 ROUND 02 CLUB E1 CLUB D1 TEAM E1 TEAM D1 ROUND 02 CLUB F2 CLUB C2 ROUND 03 CLUB A1 CLUB E1 TEAM A1 TEAM E1 ROUND 03 CLUB B2 CLUB F2 TEAM B2 TEAM D1 ROUND 03 CLUB C1 CLUB B1 TEAM C1 TEAM B1 ROUND 03 CLUB D2 CLUB A2 TEAM D2 TEAM A2 ROUND 03 CLUB E2 CLUB C2 TEAM E2 TEAM C2 ROUND 03 CLUB F1 CLUB D1 ROUND 04 CLUB A2 CLUB E2 TEAM A2 TEAM E2 ROUND 04 CLUB B1 CLUB F1 TEAM B1 TEAM D2 ROUND 04 CLUB C2 CLUB B2 TEAM C2 TEAM B2 ROUND 04 CLUB D1 CLUB A1 TEAM D1 TEAM A1 ROUND 04 CLUB E1 CLUB C1 TEAM E1 TEAM C1 ROUND 04 CLUB F2 CLUB D2 ROUND 05 CLUB A2 CLUB F2 TEAM A2 TEAM A1 ROUND 05 CLUB B1 CLUB E1 TEAM B1 TEAM E1 ROUND 05 CLUB C1 CLUB D1 TEAM C1 TEAM D1 ROUND 05 CLUB D2 CLUB C2 TEAM D2 TEAM C2 ROUND 05 CLUB E2 CLUB B2 TEAM E2 TEAM B2 ROUND 05 CLUB F1 CLUB A1 ROUND 06 CLUB A1 CLUB F1 TEAM A1 TEAM A2 ROUND 06 CLUB B2 CLUB E2 TEAM B2 TEAM E2 ROUND 06 CLUB C2 CLUB D2 TEAM C2 TEAM D2 ROUND 06 CLUB D1 CLUB C1 TEAM D1 TEAM C1 ROUND 06 CLUB E1 CLUB B1 TEAM E1 TEAM B1 ROUND 06 CLUB F2 CLUB A2 ROUND 07 CLUB A1 CLUB F2 ROUND 07 CLUB B1 CLUB E2 ROUND 07 CLUB C1 CLUB D2 ROUND 07 CLUB D1 CLUB C2 ROUND 07 CLUB E1 CLUB B2 ROUND 07 CLUB F1 CLUB A2 ROUND 08 CLUB A2 CLUB E1 ROUND 08 CLUB B2 CLUB D1 ROUND 08 CLUB C2 CLUB C1 ROUND 08 CLUB D2 CLUB B1 ROUND 08 CLUB E2 CLUB A1 ROUND 08 CLUB F2 CLUB F1 ROUND 09 CLUB A1 CLUB D2 TEAM A1 TEAM D2 ROUND 09 CLUB B1 CLUB C2 TEAM B1 TEAM C2 ROUND 09 CLUB C1 CLUB B2 TEAM C1 TEAM B2 ROUND 09 CLUB D1 CLUB A2 TEAM D1 TEAM E2 ROUND 09 CLUB E1 CLUB F2 TEAM E1 TEAM A2 ROUND 09 CLUB F1 CLUB E2 ROUND 10 CLUB A2 CLUB C1 TEAM A2 TEAM D1 ROUND 10 CLUB B2 CLUB B1 TEAM B2 TEAM B1 ROUND 10 CLUB C2 CLUB A1 TEAM C2 TEAM A1 ROUND 10 CLUB D2 CLUB F1 TEAM D2 TEAM E1 ROUND 10 CLUB E2 CLUB E1 TEAM E2 TEAM C1 ROUND 10 CLUB F2 CLUB D1 ROUND 11 CLUB A1 CLUB B2 TEAM A1 TEAM B2 ROUND 11 CLUB B1 CLUB A2 TEAM B1 TEAM E2 ROUND 11 CLUB C1 CLUB F2 TEAM C1 TEAM A2 ROUND 11 CLUB D1 CLUB E2 TEAM D1 TEAM D2 ROUND 11 CLUB E1 CLUB D2 TEAM E1 TEAM C2 ROUND 11 CLUB F1 CLUB C2 ROUND 12 CLUB A2 CLUB A1 TEAM A2 TEAM B1 ROUND 12 CLUB B2 CLUB F1 TEAM B2 TEAM E1 ROUND 12 CLUB C2 CLUB E1 TEAM C2 TEAM D1 ROUND 12 CLUB D2 CLUB D1 TEAM D2 TEAM C1 ROUND 12 CLUB E2 CLUB C1 TEAM E2 TEAM A1 ROUND 12 CLUB F2 CLUB B1 ROUND 13 CLUB A2 CLUB C2 TEAM A2 TEAM C2 ROUND 13 CLUB B1 CLUB D1 TEAM B1 TEAM D1 ROUND 13 CLUB C1 CLUB A1 TEAM C1 TEAM A1 ROUND 13 CLUB D2 CLUB B2 TEAM D2 TEAM B2 ROUND 13 CLUB E1 CLUB F1 TEAM E1 TEAM E2 ROUND 13 CLUB F2 CLUB E2 ROUND 14 CLUB A1 CLUB B1 TEAM A1 TEAM B1 ROUND 14 CLUB B2 CLUB A2 TEAM B2 TEAM A2 ROUND 14 CLUB C2 CLUB F2 TEAM C2 TEAM C1 ROUND 14 CLUB D1 CLUB E1 TEAM D1 TEAM E1 ROUND 14 CLUB E2 CLUB D2 TEAM E2 TEAM D2 ROUND 14 CLUB F1 CLUB C1 ROUND 15 CLUB A2 CLUB D2 TEAM A2 TEAM D2 ROUND 15 CLUB B1 CLUB C1 TEAM B1 TEAM C1 ROUND 15 CLUB C2 CLUB E2 TEAM C2 TEAM E2 ROUND 15 CLUB D1 CLUB F1 TEAM D1 TEAM B2 ROUND 15 CLUB E1 CLUB A1 TEAM E1 TEAM A1 ROUND 15 CLUB F2 CLUB B2 ROUND 16 CLUB A1 CLUB D1 TEAM A1 TEAM D1 ROUND 16 CLUB B2 CLUB C2 TEAM B2 TEAM C2 ROUND 16 CLUB C1 CLUB E1 TEAM C1 TEAM E1 ROUND 16 CLUB D2 CLUB F2 TEAM D2 TEAM B1 ROUND 16 CLUB E2 CLUB A2 TEAM E2 TEAM A2 ROUND 16 CLUB F1 CLUB B1 ROUND 17 CLUB A2 CLUB F1 ROUND 17 CLUB B2 CLUB E1 ROUND 17 CLUB C2 CLUB D1 ROUND 17 CLUB D2 CLUB C1 ROUND 17 CLUB E2 CLUB B1 ROUND 17 CLUB F2 CLUB A1 ROUND 18 CLUB A1 CLUB E2 ROUND 18 CLUB B1 CLUB D2 ROUND 18 CLUB C1 CLUB C2 ROUND 18 CLUB D1 CLUB B2 ROUND 18 CLUB E1 CLUB A2 ROUND 18 CLUB F1 CLUB F2 ROUND 19 CLUB A2 CLUB D1 TEAM A2 TEAM E1 ROUND 19 CLUB B2 CLUB C1 TEAM B2 TEAM C1 ROUND 19 CLUB C2 CLUB B1 TEAM C2 TEAM B1 ROUND 19 CLUB D2 CLUB A1 TEAM D2 TEAM A1 ROUND 19 CLUB E2 CLUB F1 TEAM E2 TEAM D1 ROUND 19 CLUB F2 CLUB E1 ROUND 20 CLUB A1 CLUB C2 TEAM A1 TEAM C2 ROUND 20 CLUB B1 CLUB B2 TEAM B1 TEAM B2 ROUND 20 CLUB C1 CLUB A2 TEAM C1 TEAM E2 ROUND 20 CLUB D1 CLUB F2 TEAM D1 TEAM A2 ROUND 20 CLUB E1 CLUB E2 TEAM E1 TEAM D2 ROUND 20 CLUB F1 CLUB D2 ROUND 21 CLUB A2 CLUB B1 TEAM A2 TEAM C1 ROUND 21 CLUB B2 CLUB A1 TEAM B2 TEAM A1 ROUND 21 CLUB C2 CLUB F1 TEAM C2 TEAM E1 ROUND 21 CLUB D2 CLUB E1 TEAM D2 TEAM D1 ROUND 21 CLUB E2 CLUB D1 TEAM E2 TEAM B1 ROUND 21 CLUB F2 CLUB C1 ROUND 22 CLUB A1 CLUB A2 TEAM A1 TEAM E2 ROUND 22 CLUB B1 CLUB F2 TEAM B1 TEAM A2 ROUND 22 CLUB C1 CLUB E2 TEAM C1 TEAM D2 ROUND 22 CLUB D1 CLUB D2 TEAM D1 TEAM C2 ROUND 22 CLUB E1 CLUB C2 TEAM E1 TEAM B2 ROUND 22 CLUB F1 CLUB B2
Left column represents the 12-club division, and the right column the 10-club division.
Hi Fixtureman,
Thanks for that. How is your system better than the generator above?
I don’t know if it is better than the fixture generator, because I’m not a computer whiz. (I don’t understand programming.) But my system enables creating fixtures for a league with two divisions, with different number of clubs in the two divisions. My system gives each team alternating home and away matches (with a few breaks in pattern), with an unlimited number of neighbour teams (both within the same division and in separate divisions), that is teams that never play at home in the same league rounds.
By just using Word and the Replace function in Word, one can get a complete two-division fixture set up within a few minutes. The example above is for a league system with a 10-club division and a 12-club division. I have also made a Word sheet with a 12-club division and a 14-club division. And I’m currently working on a 14-club and 16-club set up.
In short: My system is better than the fixture generator for dummies like me who don’t understand computer programming. (Maybe I’m in the wrong forum?)
Hey Fixtureman,
You don’t need to understand programming to use my fixtures generator … just visit http://bluebones.net/fixtures.php and put in the number of teams you want fixtures for.
Then you can copy and paste into Word and search and replace to your heart’s content. Or just enter the team names into the form and skip the search and replace step!
I can see that one thing you’ve done that my program does not is ensure that “neighbour teams” (with a shared home venue) work across two divisions.
However, that only applies to the particular cases of a 10-club division and a 12-club division, or a 12-club division with a 14-club division. It would be nice to generalize the solution so that some future fixtures secretary could just input “3 divisions of 10, 12 and 12 clubs” to get the fixtures they need. What exactly is it that you do to create these cross-divisional neighbours? Do you just use trial and error? Or is there a system to it?
Thanks!
First of all, you can use my plan for a 10-12-12 clubs league. You just use the same 12-club fixtures for both 12-club divisions. Just remember that if Man Utd is A1 in division 1 then Man City in division 2 must be A2.
Second, my plan is not a result of trial and error - it’s based on logic and system. If you want I can explain exactly what logic I apply when making my fixture sheets.
Hey Fixtureman,
That’s very interesting! If you use a system (algorithm?) when you make these sheets then we can get the computer to do the heavy lifting for us. I’m not really very interested in solutions to one-off setups like 10-12-12. I’m interested in generalizing the solution so that when someone comes along with any set of requirements they can generate themselves a fixture list that will work. Do you see what I mean? 10-12-12 is only useful if you have that exact setup. But a program that can generate fixture lists for arbitrary numbers of teams in arbitrary numbers of divisions will be very useful to lots of people.
In actual fact, the fixtures generator above probably solves 90%+ of all fixtures problems anyone ever has. But I’m still interested in your system - at the very least I might be able to save you a few night’s work!
Yes, I use algorithms - but they are rather complex I’m afraid. However, 10-12 problems are solved the same way as 14-16 problems, 18-20 problems, 22-24 problems. In other words: If the division with the highest number of clubs has 2 times an even number of clubs, the same algorithms apply. I have also algoritms for problems where the division with the lowest number of clubs has two times an even number of clubs, that is 14-12, 18-16, 22-20, and so on. The algorithms used here differ somewhat from the algorithms used in the other problems, but not very much.
I will explain my system, over several postings. But first I will check if this forum can cope with a 9 column table.
If not, I will have to rewrite my first manuscript a little before posting it.
Here’s the table:
Round T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 T8 1 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
It should work. I will now click on “Submit Comment” to see how it’ll look like.
Algorithms sound wonderful. Never mind if they are complicated - we only have to type them right once!
To get the monospace typefaces as above use <pre> before the table and </pre> after the table.
Hi,
Trying to arrange a league of 3 divisions, thats the easy bit. The problem is that we have ‘A’ & ‘B’ teams in all divisions how do we arrange so that A & B don’t play home games on the same week. Have worked out that 1 & 8 and 4 & 6 don’t play at home together but cannot workout anymore. Any suggestions.
Hi H FIRTH,
The complimentary teams feature makes sure that team n and team n+m in the /same/ division do not play at home together (where m is half the number of teams rounded up, and n is a number less than m).
To make this work across divisions you have to make ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams be team n and team n+m in different divsions.
A simple example. Say we have two divisions of 4 teams:
Div 1: Everton, Liverpool, Chelsea, ManU ‘A’
Div 2: Stockport, Lincoln, Barnsley, ManU ‘B’
In a 4 team division, m is 2. This means that team 1 never plays at home at the same time as team 3 and team 2 never plays at home at the same time as team 4. So make ManU ‘A’ team 1 in Div 1. And make ManU ‘B’ team 3 in Div 2.
Hope that helps!
Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply. This has worked fine.
Thanks a lot this has saved me a lot of time brill
Hello H Firth
When you have A teams and B teams in different venues who shared the same venue, it does become tricky. If all the divisions have the same number of teams the same complimentary pairings that Thomas uses will work. When the number of teams in each division is different (there is one exception) there are other pairings required and there is a limit to the number of pairings that exist - 4 (it depends on the fixture pattern that you use). So if you have one league of 8 and one league of 10 and there are 5 pairs of A’s and B’s across each division, then it can’t be done. The Advanced+ version at http://www.sportsfixturelists.com copes with this sort of scenario.
H Firth and Alan,
one can easily create fixtures for a 8-club division and a 10-club division, with each club in the 8-club division having a club in the 10-club division never playing at home in the same league round.
In the example below A1 and A2 are never at home in the same round. The same is true for B, C, D, and E,
This is true both within the same division and across divisions.
ROUND 01 CLUB A1 CLUB B1 TEAM A1 TEAM B1 ROUND 01 CLUB B2 CLUB D1 TEAM B2 TEAM D1 ROUND 01 CLUB C2 CLUB E1 TEAM C2 TEAM C1 ROUND 01 CLUB D2 CLUB A2 TEAM D2 TEAM A2 ROUND 01 CLUB E2 CLUB C1 ROUND 02 CLUB A2 CLUB B2 TEAM A2 TEAM B2 ROUND 02 CLUB B1 CLUB D2 TEAM B1 TEAM D2 ROUND 02 CLUB C1 CLUB C2 TEAM C1 TEAM A1 ROUND 02 CLUB D1 CLUB E2 TEAM D1 TEAM C2 ROUND 02 CLUB E1 CLUB A1 ROUND 03 CLUB A1 CLUB C1 ROUND 03 CLUB B1 CLUB E1 ROUND 03 CLUB C2 CLUB D1 ROUND 03 CLUB D2 CLUB B2 ROUND 03 CLUB E2 CLUB A2 ROUND 04 CLUB A2 CLUB C2 ROUND 04 CLUB B2 CLUB E2 ROUND 04 CLUB C1 CLUB B1 ROUND 04 CLUB D1 CLUB A1 ROUND 04 CLUB E1 CLUB D2 ROUND 05 CLUB A1 CLUB A2 TEAM A1 TEAM D1 ROUND 05 CLUB B1 CLUB D1 TEAM B1 TEAM C1 ROUND 05 CLUB C2 CLUB B2 TEAM C2 TEAM A2 ROUND 05 CLUB D2 CLUB E2 TEAM D2 TEAM B2 ROUND 05 CLUB E1 CLUB C1 ROUND 06 CLUB A2 CLUB B1 TEAM A2 TEAM A1 ROUND 06 CLUB B2 CLUB A1 TEAM B2 TEAM C2 ROUND 06 CLUB C1 CLUB D2 TEAM C1 TEAM D2 ROUND 06 CLUB D1 CLUB E1 TEAM D1 TEAM B1 ROUND 06 CLUB E2 CLUB C2 ROUND 07 CLUB A1 CLUB E2 TEAM A1 TEAM B2 ROUND 07 CLUB B1 CLUB B2 TEAM B1 TEAM A2 ROUND 07 CLUB C1 CLUB D1 TEAM C1 TEAM D1 ROUND 07 CLUB D2 CLUB C2 TEAM D2 TEAM C2 ROUND 07 CLUB E1 CLUB A2 ROUND 08 CLUB A2 CLUB C1 TEAM A2 TEAM C1 ROUND 08 CLUB B2 CLUB E1 TEAM B2 TEAM B1 ROUND 08 CLUB C2 CLUB A1 TEAM C2 TEAM A1 ROUND 08 CLUB D1 CLUB D2 TEAM D1 TEAM D2 ROUND 08 CLUB E2 CLUB B1 ROUND 09 CLUB A1 CLUB D2 TEAM A1 TEAM D2 ROUND 09 CLUB B1 CLUB C2 TEAM B1 TEAM C2 ROUND 09 CLUB C1 CLUB B2 TEAM C1 TEAM B2 ROUND 09 CLUB D1 CLUB A2 TEAM D1 TEAM A2 ROUND 09 CLUB E1 CLUB E2 ROUND 10 CLUB A2 CLUB D1 TEAM A2 TEAM D1 ROUND 10 CLUB B2 CLUB C1 TEAM B2 TEAM C1 ROUND 10 CLUB C2 CLUB B1 TEAM C2 TEAM B1 ROUND 10 CLUB D2 CLUB A1 TEAM D2 TEAM A1 ROUND 10 CLUB E2 CLUB E1 ROUND 11 CLUB A2 CLUB D2 TEAM A2 TEAM D2 ROUND 11 CLUB B1 CLUB A1 TEAM B1 TEAM A1 ROUND 11 CLUB C1 CLUB E2 TEAM C1 TEAM C2 ROUND 11 CLUB D1 CLUB B2 TEAM D1 TEAM B2 ROUND 11 CLUB E1 CLUB C2 ROUND 12 CLUB A1 CLUB E1 TEAM A1 TEAM C1 ROUND 12 CLUB B2 CLUB A2 TEAM B2 TEAM A2 ROUND 12 CLUB C2 CLUB C1 TEAM C2 TEAM D1 ROUND 12 CLUB D2 CLUB B1 TEAM D2 TEAM B1 ROUND 12 CLUB E2 CLUB D1 ROUND 13 CLUB A2 CLUB E2 ROUND 13 CLUB B2 CLUB D2 ROUND 13 CLUB C1 CLUB A1 ROUND 13 CLUB D1 CLUB C2 ROUND 13 CLUB E1 CLUB B1 ROUND 14 CLUB A1 CLUB D1 ROUND 14 CLUB B1 CLUB C1 ROUND 14 CLUB C2 CLUB A2 ROUND 14 CLUB D2 CLUB E1 ROUND 14 CLUB E2 CLUB B2 ROUND 15 CLUB A2 CLUB A1 TEAM A2 TEAM C2 ROUND 15 CLUB B2 CLUB C2 TEAM B2 TEAM D2 ROUND 15 CLUB C1 CLUB E1 TEAM C1 TEAM B1 ROUND 15 CLUB D1 CLUB B1 TEAM D1 TEAM A1 ROUND 15 CLUB E2 CLUB D2 ROUND 16 CLUB A1 CLUB B2 TEAM A1 TEAM A2 ROUND 16 CLUB B1 CLUB A2 TEAM B1 TEAM D1 ROUND 16 CLUB C2 CLUB E2 TEAM C2 TEAM B2 ROUND 16 CLUB D2 CLUB C1 TEAM D2 TEAM C1 ROUND 16 CLUB E1 CLUB D1 ROUND 17 CLUB A2 CLUB E1 TEAM A2 TEAM B1 ROUND 17 CLUB B2 CLUB B1 TEAM B2 TEAM A1 ROUND 17 CLUB C2 CLUB D2 TEAM C2 TEAM D2 ROUND 17 CLUB D1 CLUB C1 TEAM D1 TEAM C1 ROUND 17 CLUB E2 CLUB A1 ROUND 18 CLUB A1 CLUB C2 TEAM A1 TEAM C2 ROUND 18 CLUB B1 CLUB E2 TEAM B1 TEAM B2 ROUND 18 CLUB C1 CLUB A2 TEAM C1 TEAM A2 ROUND 18 CLUB D2 CLUB D1 TEAM D2 TEAM D1 ROUND 18 CLUB E1 CLUB B2
With this plan each team plays at home and away alternately with maximum 2 breaks in the pattern during the season. Similar fixture plans can be made for 12/10 cluns, 14/12 clubs, and so on.
I am setting up a darts singles league which will have between 20 and 24 players in it. your generator gives me the fivtures the problem I have is that all these matches will take place at one venue with 4 boards and we will play 20 matches a week. is there a way, apart from trail and error, that I can organise it so that where players play twice on the night they do not play two consecutive matches and don’t play on the same board twice. I dont need home and away matches as they will only play each other once during the season. hope this makes sense as I know nothing about programming.
Martin, interesting puzzle.
I think I’ve cracked it for a league of 20 players. I won’t bore the readers of this board with the table I’ve created. But if you send me a mail to fixtures “at” runbox.no I will send you my 20-player plan. And I’ll see what I can come up with in case of 21, 22, 23 or 24 players.
Martin, I think I have now found a simple algorithm (or a set of algorithns) for your problem in the case of 20, 22, or 24 players. (I’m not quite satisfied with the 22-player solution, but it meets your requirements except that you’ll have to play 19 instead of 20 matches each week.) But in case of 21 or 23 players it’s very difficult.
Send me a mail to fixtures “at” runbox.no and I’ll send you my algoritms.
I, Paul Teal, the results secretary of the Beverley Pool League, thanks Fixtureman for saving him hours of head scratching and promises to buy him a pint if he ever comes to Beverley. May your algorithms bring you and your family untold wealth and happiness.
This works perfectly fine. The teams that are opposite each other are the first team and the last team, the second team and the one before last and so on and so on. Take a look at these quite illustrations as to what I mean.
http://swweb.frih.net/opposites.gif
http://swweb.frih.net/opposites2.gif
Cheers
Steve
I still prefer to think of it as Team t and Team t + (n / 2) where n is the total number of teams, but your way is good too.
Hi,
I am trying to create a fixture list for 8 teams at a three pitch venue so 6 are playing and 2 are off at any one time.
Each team will play every other team once.
Do you have any suggestions?
Many thanks.
To Tim Luck,
Since home and away is not an issue in your problem, you can solve it by applying tables, as shown below.
First you set up table 1, by writing the club names (A, B, C, and so on) in two columns, like this:
A H B G C F D E
To set up table No 2, let H stay put and rotate the other teams counter-clockwise:
G H A F B E C D
Table No 3 looks like this;
F H G E A D B C
There are 7 such tables for a 8-club league, since there are 7 ordinary rounds when teams meet each other once only. (If you continue creating tables, you’ll find that table 8 is identical to table 1.)
Now, to return to your problem with 3 pitches and 8 teams.
Round 1 contains the top three matches from table 1 (A v H, B v G, C v F)
Round 2 contains the last match from table 1 and the top two matches from table 2 (D v E, G v H, A v F).
Round 3 contains the last two matches from table 2 and the first match from table 3 (B v E, C v D, F v H)
And so on. The good thing about this table system is that from one table to the next, no team move more than one line up or down. This guarantees that our system will have no team appearing twice within a 3.match round.
I hope this solves your problem, Tim.
I’ve just found your generator thanks to a search on google. Brilliant! You’ve saved me, and the youth cricket league I represent, http://www.wsycl.org.uk loads of time. I just need to read through the thread and work out how I’m going to update the database but that’s not the difficult part. I’d like to publish the generator on our website http://www.itinfraco.co.uk, is there a link you would prefer me to use to give you the credit. Once again, Brilliant! regards Phil
Is there any way to randomize the fixtures. I think the fixtures are determined by the order you put the teams down in, I may be wrong. Still, an excellent generator.
Yes that’s right. Best I can suggest is entering the teams into the box in a random order. I could perhaps add a checkbox for “randomize teams” if it would be useful.
just been given job to set out fixtures for 2008/09 season 3 divs of 14 , with no guidance from last fixture sec
2 clicks of google took me here and saved me a lot of work
Well done for taking the time to sort this to save others who do it all voluntarily a ton of headaches
Brilliant.
I run an online fantasy cricket league and this has saved me a lot of time and energy.
Thanks!
I NEED TO GENERATE FIXTURES FOR 20 TEAMS WITH 5 OF THEM SHARING THE SAME VENUE CAN YOU HELP?
Sue,
with 20 teams there’ll be 38 league rounds (providing that a team meets each other team twice during the season; once home and once away). This means that your 5 teams sharing venue will have to play 5×19 = 95 home matches in all. This means an average of 2.5 home matches per round for those 5 teams. The best one can do is to arrange the fixtures such that there are never more than 3 of these teams playing at home in any league round. Then you can avoid clashed by letting the teams play at home on different days (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for instance) during a league round.
If you use the fixtures below, with your 5 teams as A1, A2, B1, B2, and F1, then there will not be more than 3 of the 5 teams at home during any league round. (My fixture system is based on the rule that teams with the same capital letter are never at home in the same round.)
(If the table below appears gibberish, then I have to contact the site administrator to fix it. He usually does this very quickly, so please wait a day or two.)
Here are the fixtures:
ROUND 01 TEAM A1 TEAM B1 ROUND 01 TEAM B2 TEAM J1 ROUND 01 TEAM C2 TEAM I1 ROUND 01 TEAM D2 TEAM H1 ROUND 01 TEAM E2 TEAM G1 ROUND 01 TEAM F2 TEAM F1 ROUND 01 TEAM G2 TEAM E1 ROUND 01 TEAM H2 TEAM D1 ROUND 01 TEAM I2 TEAM C1 ROUND 01 TEAM J2 TEAM A2 ROUND 02 TEAM A2 TEAM B2 ROUND 02 TEAM B1 TEAM J2 ROUND 02 TEAM C1 TEAM A1 ROUND 02 TEAM D1 TEAM I2 ROUND 02 TEAM E1 TEAM H2 ROUND 02 TEAM F1 TEAM G2 ROUND 02 TEAM G1 TEAM F2 ROUND 02 TEAM H1 TEAM E2 ROUND 02 TEAM I1 TEAM D2 ROUND 02 TEAM J1 TEAM C2 ROUND 03 TEAM A1 TEAM D1 ROUND 03 TEAM B1 TEAM C1 ROUND 03 TEAM C2 TEAM A2 ROUND 03 TEAM D2 TEAM J1 ROUND 03 TEAM E2 TEAM I1 ROUND 03 TEAM F2 TEAM H1 ROUND 03 TEAM G2 TEAM G1 ROUND 03 TEAM H2 TEAM F1 ROUND 03 TEAM I2 TEAM E1 ROUND 03 TEAM J2 TEAM B2 ROUND 04 TEAM A2 TEAM D2 ROUND 04 TEAM B2 TEAM C2 ROUND 04 TEAM C1 TEAM J2 ROUND 04 TEAM D1 TEAM B1 ROUND 04 TEAM E1 TEAM A1 ROUND 04 TEAM F1 TEAM I2 ROUND 04 TEAM G1 TEAM H2 ROUND 04 TEAM H1 TEAM G2 ROUND 04 TEAM I1 TEAM F2 ROUND 04 TEAM J1 TEAM E2 ROUND 05 TEAM A1 TEAM F1 ROUND 05 TEAM B1 TEAM E1 ROUND 05 TEAM C1 TEAM D1 ROUND 05 TEAM D2 TEAM B2 ROUND 05 TEAM E2 TEAM A2 ROUND 05 TEAM F2 TEAM J1 ROUND 05 TEAM G2 TEAM I1 ROUND 05 TEAM H2 TEAM H1 ROUND 05 TEAM I2 TEAM G1 ROUND 05 TEAM J2 TEAM C2 ROUND 06 TEAM A2 TEAM F2 ROUND 06 TEAM B2 TEAM E2 ROUND 06 TEAM C2 TEAM D2 ROUND 06 TEAM D1 TEAM J2 ROUND 06 TEAM E1 TEAM C1 ROUND 06 TEAM F1 TEAM B1 ROUND 06 TEAM G1 TEAM A1 ROUND 06 TEAM H1 TEAM I2 ROUND 06 TEAM I1 TEAM H2 ROUND 06 TEAM J1 TEAM G2 ROUND 07 TEAM A1 TEAM H1 ROUND 07 TEAM B1 TEAM G1 ROUND 07 TEAM C1 TEAM F1 ROUND 07 TEAM D1 TEAM E1 ROUND 07 TEAM E2 TEAM C2 ROUND 07 TEAM F2 TEAM B2 ROUND 07 TEAM G2 TEAM A2 ROUND 07 TEAM H2 TEAM J1 ROUND 07 TEAM I2 TEAM I1 ROUND 07 TEAM J2 TEAM D2 ROUND 08 TEAM A2 TEAM H2 ROUND 08 TEAM B2 TEAM G2 ROUND 08 TEAM C2 TEAM F2 ROUND 08 TEAM D2 TEAM E2 ROUND 08 TEAM E1 TEAM J2 ROUND 08 TEAM F1 TEAM D1 ROUND 08 TEAM G1 TEAM C1 ROUND 08 TEAM H1 TEAM B1 ROUND 08 TEAM I1 TEAM A1 ROUND 08 TEAM J1 TEAM I2 ROUND 09 TEAM A1 TEAM J1 ROUND 09 TEAM B1 TEAM I1 ROUND 09 TEAM C1 TEAM H1 ROUND 09 TEAM D1 TEAM G1 ROUND 09 TEAM E1 TEAM F1 ROUND 09 TEAM F2 TEAM D2 ROUND 09 TEAM G2 TEAM C2 ROUND 09 TEAM H2 TEAM B2 ROUND 09 TEAM I2 TEAM A2 ROUND 09 TEAM J2 TEAM E2 ROUND 10 TEAM A2 TEAM A1 ROUND 10 TEAM B2 TEAM I2 ROUND 10 TEAM C2 TEAM H2 ROUND 10 TEAM D2 TEAM G2 ROUND 10 TEAM E2 TEAM F2 ROUND 10 TEAM F1 TEAM J2 ROUND 10 TEAM G1 TEAM E1 ROUND 10 TEAM H1 TEAM D1 ROUND 10 TEAM I1 TEAM C1 ROUND 10 TEAM J1 TEAM B1 ROUND 11 TEAM A1 TEAM B2 ROUND 11 TEAM B1 TEAM A2 ROUND 11 TEAM C1 TEAM J1 ROUND 11 TEAM D1 TEAM I1 ROUND 11 TEAM E1 TEAM H1 ROUND 11 TEAM F1 TEAM G1 ROUND 11 TEAM G2 TEAM E2 ROUND 11 TEAM H2 TEAM D2 ROUND 11 TEAM I2 TEAM C2 ROUND 11 TEAM J2 TEAM F2 ROUND 12 TEAM A2 TEAM C1 ROUND 12 TEAM B2 TEAM B1 ROUND 12 TEAM C2 TEAM A1 ROUND 12 TEAM D2 TEAM I2 ROUND 12 TEAM E2 TEAM H2 ROUND 12 TEAM F2 TEAM G2 ROUND 12 TEAM G1 TEAM J2 ROUND 12 TEAM H1 TEAM F1 ROUND 12 TEAM I1 TEAM E1 ROUND 12 TEAM J1 TEAM D1 ROUND 13 TEAM A1 TEAM D2 ROUND 13 TEAM B1 TEAM C2 ROUND 13 TEAM C1 TEAM B2 ROUND 13 TEAM D1 TEAM A2 ROUND 13 TEAM E1 TEAM J1 ROUND 13 TEAM F1 TEAM I1 ROUND 13 TEAM G1 TEAM H1 ROUND 13 TEAM H2 TEAM F2 ROUND 13 TEAM I2 TEAM E2 ROUND 13 TEAM J2 TEAM G2 ROUND 14 TEAM A2 TEAM E1 ROUND 14 TEAM B2 TEAM D1 ROUND 14 TEAM C2 TEAM C1 ROUND 14 TEAM D2 TEAM B1 ROUND 14 TEAM E2 TEAM A1 ROUND 14 TEAM F2 TEAM I2 ROUND 14 TEAM G2 TEAM H2 ROUND 14 TEAM H1 TEAM J2 ROUND 14 TEAM I1 TEAM G1 ROUND 14 TEAM J1 TEAM F1 ROUND 15 TEAM A1 TEAM F2 ROUND 15 TEAM B1 TEAM E2 ROUND 15 TEAM C1 TEAM D2 ROUND 15 TEAM D1 TEAM C2 ROUND 15 TEAM E1 TEAM B2 ROUND 15 TEAM F1 TEAM A2 ROUND 15 TEAM G1 TEAM J1 ROUND 15 TEAM H1 TEAM I1 ROUND 15 TEAM I2 TEAM G2 ROUND 15 TEAM J2 TEAM H2 ROUND 16 TEAM A2 TEAM G1 ROUND 16 TEAM B2 TEAM F1 ROUND 16 TEAM C2 TEAM E1 ROUND 16 TEAM D2 TEAM D1 ROUND 16 TEAM E2 TEAM C1 ROUND 16 TEAM F2 TEAM B1 ROUND 16 TEAM G2 TEAM A1 ROUND 16 TEAM H2 TEAM I2 ROUND 16 TEAM I1 TEAM J2 ROUND 16 TEAM J1 TEAM H1 ROUND 17 TEAM A1 TEAM H2 ROUND 17 TEAM B1 TEAM G2 ROUND 17 TEAM C1 TEAM F2 ROUND 17 TEAM D1 TEAM E2 ROUND 17 TEAM E1 TEAM D2 ROUND 17 TEAM F1 TEAM C2 ROUND 17 TEAM G1 TEAM B2 ROUND 17 TEAM H1 TEAM A2 ROUND 17 TEAM I1 TEAM J1 ROUND 17 TEAM J2 TEAM I2 ROUND 18 TEAM A2 TEAM I1 ROUND 18 TEAM B2 TEAM H1 ROUND 18 TEAM C2 TEAM G1 ROUND 18 TEAM D2 TEAM F1 ROUND 18 TEAM E2 TEAM E1 ROUND 18 TEAM F2 TEAM D1 ROUND 18 TEAM G2 TEAM C1 ROUND 18 TEAM H2 TEAM B1 ROUND 18 TEAM I2 TEAM A1 ROUND 18 TEAM J1 TEAM J2 ROUND 19 TEAM A1 TEAM J2 ROUND 19 TEAM B1 TEAM I2 ROUND 19 TEAM C1 TEAM H2 ROUND 19 TEAM D1 TEAM G2 ROUND 19 TEAM E1 TEAM F2 ROUND 19 TEAM F1 TEAM E2 ROUND 19 TEAM G1 TEAM D2 ROUND 19 TEAM H1 TEAM C2 ROUND 19 TEAM I1 TEAM B2 ROUND 19 TEAM J1 TEAM A2 ROUND 20 TEAM A2 TEAM J1 ROUND 20 TEAM B2 TEAM I1 ROUND 20 TEAM C2 TEAM H1 ROUND 20 TEAM D2 TEAM G1 ROUND 20 TEAM E2 TEAM F1 ROUND 20 TEAM F2 TEAM E1 ROUND 20 TEAM G2 TEAM D1 ROUND 20 TEAM H2 TEAM C1 ROUND 20 TEAM I2 TEAM B1 ROUND 20 TEAM J2 TEAM A1 ROUND 21 TEAM A2 TEAM J2 ROUND 21 TEAM B1 TEAM A1 ROUND 21 TEAM C1 TEAM I2 ROUND 21 TEAM D1 TEAM H2 ROUND 21 TEAM E1 TEAM G2 ROUND 21 TEAM F1 TEAM F2 ROUND 21 TEAM G1 TEAM E2 ROUND 21 TEAM H1 TEAM D2 ROUND 21 TEAM I1 TEAM C2 ROUND 21 TEAM J1 TEAM B2 ROUND 22 TEAM A1 TEAM C1 ROUND 22 TEAM B2 TEAM A2 ROUND 22 TEAM C2 TEAM J1 ROUND 22 TEAM D2 TEAM I1 ROUND 22 TEAM E2 TEAM H1 ROUND 22 TEAM F2 TEAM G1 ROUND 22 TEAM G2 TEAM F1 ROUND 22 TEAM H2 TEAM E1 ROUND 22 TEAM I2 TEAM D1 ROUND 22 TEAM J2 TEAM B1 ROUND 23 TEAM A2 TEAM C2 ROUND 23 TEAM B2 TEAM J2 ROUND 23 TEAM C1 TEAM B1 ROUND 23 TEAM D1 TEAM A1 ROUND 23 TEAM E1 TEAM I2 ROUND 23 TEAM F1 TEAM H2 ROUND 23 TEAM G1 TEAM G2 ROUND 23 TEAM H1 TEAM F2 ROUND 23 TEAM I1 TEAM E2 ROUND 23 TEAM J1 TEAM D2 ROUND 24 TEAM A1 TEAM E1 ROUND 24 TEAM B1 TEAM D1 ROUND 24 TEAM C2 TEAM B2 ROUND 24 TEAM D2 TEAM A2 ROUND 24 TEAM E2 TEAM J1 ROUND 24 TEAM F2 TEAM I1 ROUND 24 TEAM G2 TEAM H1 ROUND 24 TEAM H2 TEAM G1 ROUND 24 TEAM I2 TEAM F1 ROUND 24 TEAM J2 TEAM C1 ROUND 25 TEAM A2 TEAM E2 ROUND 25 TEAM B2 TEAM D2 ROUND 25 TEAM C2 TEAM J2 ROUND 25 TEAM D1 TEAM C1 ROUND 25 TEAM E1 TEAM B1 ROUND 25 TEAM F1 TEAM A1 ROUND 25 TEAM G1 TEAM I2 ROUND 25 TEAM H1 TEAM H2 ROUND 25 TEAM I1 TEAM G2 ROUND 25 TEAM J1 TEAM F2 ROUND 26 TEAM A1 TEAM G1 ROUND 26 TEAM B1 TEAM F1 ROUND 26 TEAM C1 TEAM E1 ROUND 26 TEAM D2 TEAM C2 ROUND 26 TEAM E2 TEAM B2 ROUND 26 TEAM F2 TEAM A2 ROUND 26 TEAM G2 TEAM J1 ROUND 26 TEAM H2 TEAM I1 ROUND 26 TEAM I2 TEAM H1 ROUND 26 TEAM J2 TEAM D1 ROUND 27 TEAM A2 TEAM G2 ROUND 27 TEAM B2 TEAM F2 ROUND 27 TEAM C2 TEAM E2 ROUND 27 TEAM D2 TEAM J2 ROUND 27 TEAM E1 TEAM D1 ROUND 27 TEAM F1 TEAM C1 ROUND 27 TEAM G1 TEAM B1 ROUND 27 TEAM H1 TEAM A1 ROUND 27 TEAM I1 TEAM I2 ROUND 27 TEAM J1 TEAM H2 ROUND 28 TEAM A1 TEAM I1 ROUND 28 TEAM B1 TEAM H1 ROUND 28 TEAM C1 TEAM G1 ROUND 28 TEAM D1 TEAM F1 ROUND 28 TEAM E2 TEAM D2 ROUND 28 TEAM F2 TEAM C2 ROUND 28 TEAM G2 TEAM B2 ROUND 28 TEAM H2 TEAM A2 ROUND 28 TEAM I2 TEAM J1 ROUND 28 TEAM J2 TEAM E1 ROUND 29 TEAM A2 TEAM I2 ROUND 29 TEAM B2 TEAM H2 ROUND 29 TEAM C2 TEAM G2 ROUND 29 TEAM D2 TEAM F2 ROUND 29 TEAM E2 TEAM J2 ROUND 29 TEAM F1 TEAM E1 ROUND 29 TEAM G1 TEAM D1 ROUND 29 TEAM H1 TEAM C1 ROUND 29 TEAM I1 TEAM B1 ROUND 29 TEAM J1 TEAM A1 ROUND 30 TEAM A1 TEAM A2 ROUND 30 TEAM B1 TEAM J1 ROUND 30 TEAM C1 TEAM I1 ROUND 30 TEAM D1 TEAM H1 ROUND 30 TEAM E1 TEAM G1 ROUND 30 TEAM F2 TEAM E2 ROUND 30 TEAM G2 TEAM D2 ROUND 30 TEAM H2 TEAM C2 ROUND 30 TEAM I2 TEAM B2 ROUND 30 TEAM J2 TEAM F1 ROUND 31 TEAM A2 TEAM B1 ROUND 31 TEAM B2 TEAM A1 ROUND 31 TEAM C2 TEAM I2 ROUND 31 TEAM D2 TEAM H2 ROUND 31 TEAM E2 TEAM G2 ROUND 31 TEAM F2 TEAM J2 ROUND 31 TEAM G1 TEAM F1 ROUND 31 TEAM H1 TEAM E1 ROUND 31 TEAM I1 TEAM D1 ROUND 31 TEAM J1 TEAM C1 ROUND 32 TEAM A1 TEAM C2 ROUND 32 TEAM B1 TEAM B2 ROUND 32 TEAM C1 TEAM A2 ROUND 32 TEAM D1 TEAM J1 ROUND 32 TEAM E1 TEAM I1 ROUND 32 TEAM F1 TEAM H1 ROUND 32 TEAM G2 TEAM F2 ROUND 32 TEAM H2 TEAM E2 ROUND 32 TEAM I2 TEAM D2 ROUND 32 TEAM J2 TEAM G1 ROUND 33 TEAM A2 TEAM D1 ROUND 33 TEAM B2 TEAM C1 ROUND 33 TEAM C2 TEAM B1 ROUND 33 TEAM D2 TEAM A1 ROUND 33 TEAM E2 TEAM I2 ROUND 33 TEAM F2 TEAM H2 ROUND 33 TEAM G2 TEAM J2 ROUND 33 TEAM H1 TEAM G1 ROUND 33 TEAM I1 TEAM F1 ROUND 33 TEAM J1 TEAM E1 ROUND 34 TEAM A1 TEAM E2 ROUND 34 TEAM B1 TEAM D2 ROUND 34 TEAM C1 TEAM C2 ROUND 34 TEAM D1 TEAM B2 ROUND 34 TEAM E1 TEAM A2 ROUND 34 TEAM F1 TEAM J1 ROUND 34 TEAM G1 TEAM I1 ROUND 34 TEAM H2 TEAM G2 ROUND 34 TEAM I2 TEAM F2 ROUND 34 TEAM J2 TEAM H1 ROUND 35 TEAM A2 TEAM F1 ROUND 35 TEAM B2 TEAM E1 ROUND 35 TEAM C2 TEAM D1 ROUND 35 TEAM D2 TEAM C1 ROUND 35 TEAM E2 TEAM B1 ROUND 35 TEAM F2 TEAM A1 ROUND 35 TEAM G2 TEAM I2 ROUND 35 TEAM H2 TEAM J2 ROUND 35 TEAM I1 TEAM H1 ROUND 35 TEAM J1 TEAM G1 ROUND 36 TEAM A1 TEAM G2 ROUND 36 TEAM B1 TEAM F2 ROUND 36 TEAM C1 TEAM E2 ROUND 36 TEAM D1 TEAM D2 ROUND 36 TEAM E1 TEAM C2 ROUND 36 TEAM F1 TEAM B2 ROUND 36 TEAM G1 TEAM A2 ROUND 36 TEAM H1 TEAM J1 ROUND 36 TEAM I2 TEAM H2 ROUND 36 TEAM J2 TEAM I1 ROUND 37 TEAM A2 TEAM H1 ROUND 37 TEAM B2 TEAM G1 ROUND 37 TEAM C2 TEAM F1 ROUND 37 TEAM D2 TEAM E1 ROUND 37 TEAM E2 TEAM D1 ROUND 37 TEAM F2 TEAM C1 ROUND 37 TEAM G2 TEAM B1 ROUND 37 TEAM H2 TEAM A1 ROUND 37 TEAM I2 TEAM J2 ROUND 37 TEAM J1 TEAM I1 ROUND 38 TEAM A1 TEAM I2 ROUND 38 TEAM B1 TEAM H2 ROUND 38 TEAM C1 TEAM G2 ROUND 38 TEAM D1 TEAM F2 ROUND 38 TEAM E1 TEAM E2 ROUND 38 TEAM F1 TEAM D2 ROUND 38 TEAM G1 TEAM C2 ROUND 38 TEAM H1 TEAM B2 ROUND 38 TEAM I1 TEAM A2 ROUND 38 TEAM J2 TEAM J1
Hope this will help you.
Hi,
Is there anyway from the algorithm to indicate which of the teams are the ones which will avoid each other. So for instance if I produce matches for 10 teams, how will I know which of those 10 teams will not play at home at the same time? Or is this something additional I have to work out!
Thanks
Lee
Hi Lee,
The complimentary teams feature makes sure that team n and team n+m do not play at home together (where m is half the number of teams rounded up, and n is a number less than m).
For example, in a 10-team division teams 1+6, 2+7, 3+8, 4+9 and 5+10 never play at home at the same time.
Hope that helps,
Tom
Hi Thomas
Thanks for the reponse. Just to clarify you say ‘.. and n is a number less than m’. Should that be less than or equal to as 5+10 wouldn’t meet that criteria?
Thanks
Thanks for the generator Tom, you just made my life a whole lot easier!
Hello Thomas,
I am trying to make a fixture for a 22 Team League and I have 6 Stadiums that two or more teams play at. Two of the Stadiums have 5 Teams and the other four Stadiums have 2 Teams. Is there anyway you can help me out?
Thanks
Travis,
a 22-team league means each team playing 42 matches (21 at home and 21 away). With 5 teams sharing a stadium, that stadium will have 5 x 21 = 105 matches during the season. Unless you intend to strech the season to more than 42 rounds (with some league rounds containing less than the full round of 11 matches) this means that the 5.team stadiums in average will have 105/42 = 2.5 matches per league round in average. The best you can then hope for is to avoid more than 3 matches at the same stadium in any league round.
I have a suggestion on how you can solve your problem. In the fixture list below, teams with the same capital letter are neighbour teams (never at home in the same league round). For instance team A1 is never at home when team A2 is. The same is true with teams B1 and B2, and so on.
4 stadiums with 2 teams and 2 stadiums with 5 teams make 4 x 2 + 2 x 5 = 18 teams alltogether, Since there are 22 teams in your league, I take it there are 22 - 18 = 4 teams who do not share their stadium with another team.
Now, stadium 1 (teams A1 and A2), stadium 2 (teams B1 and B2), stadium 3 (teams C1 and C2), and stadium 4 (teams D1 and D2) are the 2-team stadiums, and stadium 5 (teams E1, E2, F1, F2 and G1) and stadium 6 (teams H1, H2, I1. I2 and J1) are the 5-team stadiums.
The remaining teams (not sharing a stadium with anyone) are G2, J2, K1 and K2.
This fixture list should then solve the problem within the limitations of a strict 42-round season:
ROUND 01 TEAM A1 TEAM B1 ROUND 01 TEAM B2 TEAM K1 ROUND 01 TEAM C2 TEAM J1 ROUND 01 TEAM D2 TEAM I1 ROUND 01 TEAM E2 TEAM H1 ROUND 01 TEAM F2 TEAM G1 ROUND 01 TEAM G2 TEAM F1 ROUND 01 TEAM H2 TEAM E1 ROUND 01 TEAM I2 TEAM D1 ROUND 01 TEAM J2 TEAM C1 ROUND 01 TEAM K2 TEAM A2 ROUND 02 TEAM A2 TEAM B2 ROUND 02 TEAM B1 TEAM K2 ROUND 02 TEAM C1 TEAM A1 ROUND 02 TEAM D1 TEAM J2 ROUND 02 TEAM E1 TEAM I2 ROUND 02 TEAM F1 TEAM H2 ROUND 02 TEAM G1 TEAM G2 ROUND 02 TEAM H1 TEAM F2 ROUND 02 TEAM I1 TEAM E2 ROUND 02 TEAM J1 TEAM D2 ROUND 02 TEAM K1 TEAM C2 ROUND 03 TEAM A1 TEAM D1 ROUND 03 TEAM B1 TEAM C1 ROUND 03 TEAM C2 TEAM A2 ROUND 03 TEAM D2 TEAM K1 ROUND 03 TEAM E2 TEAM J1 ROUND 03 TEAM F2 TEAM I1 ROUND 03 TEAM G2 TEAM H1 ROUND 03 TEAM H2 TEAM G1 ROUND 03 TEAM I2 TEAM F1 ROUND 03 TEAM J2 TEAM E1 ROUND 03 TEAM K2 TEAM B2 ROUND 04 TEAM A2 TEAM D2 ROUND 04 TEAM B2 TEAM C2 ROUND 04 TEAM C1 TEAM K2 ROUND 04 TEAM D1 TEAM B1 ROUND 04 TEAM E1 TEAM A1 ROUND 04 TEAM F1 TEAM J2 ROUND 04 TEAM G1 TEAM I2 ROUND 04 TEAM H1 TEAM H2 ROUND 04 TEAM I1 TEAM G2 ROUND 04 TEAM J1 TEAM F2 ROUND 04 TEAM K1 TEAM E2 ROUND 05 TEAM A1 TEAM F1 ROUND 05 TEAM B1 TEAM E1 ROUND 05 TEAM C1 TEAM D1 ROUND 05 TEAM D2 TEAM B2 ROUND 05 TEAM E2 TEAM A2 ROUND 05 TEAM F2 TEAM K1 ROUND 05 TEAM G2 TEAM J1 ROUND 05 TEAM H2 TEAM I1 ROUND 05 TEAM I2 TEAM H1 ROUND 05 TEAM J2 TEAM G1 ROUND 05 TEAM K2 TEAM C2 ROUND 06 TEAM A2 TEAM F2 ROUND 06 TEAM B2 TEAM E2 ROUND 06 TEAM C2 TEAM D2 ROUND 06 TEAM D1 TEAM K2 ROUND 06 TEAM E1 TEAM C1 ROUND 06 TEAM F1 TEAM B1 ROUND 06 TEAM G1 TEAM A1 ROUND 06 TEAM H1 TEAM J2 ROUND 06 TEAM I1 TEAM I2 ROUND 06 TEAM J1 TEAM H2 ROUND 06 TEAM K1 TEAM G2 ROUND 07 TEAM A1 TEAM H1 ROUND 07 TEAM B1 TEAM G1 ROUND 07 TEAM C1 TEAM F1 ROUND 07 TEAM D1 TEAM E1 ROUND 07 TEAM E2 TEAM C2 ROUND 07 TEAM F2 TEAM B2 ROUND 07 TEAM G2 TEAM A2 ROUND 07 TEAM H2 TEAM K1 ROUND 07 TEAM I2 TEAM J1 ROUND 07 TEAM J2 TEAM I1 ROUND 07 TEAM K2 TEAM D2 ROUND 08 TEAM A2 TEAM H2 ROUND 08 TEAM B2 TEAM G2 ROUND 08 TEAM C2 TEAM F2 ROUND 08 TEAM D2 TEAM E2 ROUND 08 TEAM E1 TEAM K2 ROUND 08 TEAM F1 TEAM D1 ROUND 08 TEAM G1 TEAM C1 ROUND 08 TEAM H1 TEAM B1 ROUND 08 TEAM I1 TEAM A1 ROUND 08 TEAM J1 TEAM J2 ROUND 08 TEAM K1 TEAM I2 ROUND 09 TEAM A1 TEAM J1 ROUND 09 TEAM B1 TEAM I1 ROUND 09 TEAM C1 TEAM H1 ROUND 09 TEAM D1 TEAM G1 ROUND 09 TEAM E1 TEAM F1 ROUND 09 TEAM F2 TEAM D2 ROUND 09 TEAM G2 TEAM C2 ROUND 09 TEAM H2 TEAM B2 ROUND 09 TEAM I2 TEAM A2 ROUND 09 TEAM J2 TEAM K1 ROUND 09 TEAM K2 TEAM E2 ROUND 10 TEAM A2 TEAM J2 ROUND 10 TEAM B2 TEAM I2 ROUND 10 TEAM C2 TEAM H2 ROUND 10 TEAM D2 TEAM G2 ROUND 10 TEAM E2 TEAM F2 ROUND 10 TEAM F1 TEAM K2 ROUND 10 TEAM G1 TEAM E1 ROUND 10 TEAM H1 TEAM D1 ROUND 10 TEAM I1 TEAM C1 ROUND 10 TEAM J1 TEAM B1 ROUND 10 TEAM K1 TEAM A1 ROUND 11 TEAM A1 TEAM A2 ROUND 11 TEAM B1 TEAM K1 ROUND 11 TEAM C1 TEAM J1 ROUND 11 TEAM D1 TEAM I1 ROUND 11 TEAM E1 TEAM H1 ROUND 11 TEAM F1 TEAM G1 ROUND 11 TEAM G2 TEAM E2 ROUND 11 TEAM H2 TEAM D2 ROUND 11 TEAM I2 TEAM C2 ROUND 11 TEAM J2 TEAM B2 ROUND 11 TEAM K2 TEAM F2 ROUND 12 TEAM A2 TEAM B1 ROUND 12 TEAM B2 TEAM A1 ROUND 12 TEAM C2 TEAM J2 ROUND 12 TEAM D2 TEAM I2 ROUND 12 TEAM E2 TEAM H2 ROUND 12 TEAM F2 TEAM G2 ROUND 12 TEAM G1 TEAM K2 ROUND 12 TEAM H1 TEAM F1 ROUND 12 TEAM I1 TEAM E1 ROUND 12 TEAM J1 TEAM D1 ROUND 12 TEAM K1 TEAM C1 ROUND 13 TEAM A1 TEAM C2 ROUND 13 TEAM B1 TEAM B2 ROUND 13 TEAM C1 TEAM A2 ROUND 13 TEAM D1 TEAM K1 ROUND 13 TEAM E1 TEAM J1 ROUND 13 TEAM F1 TEAM I1 ROUND 13 TEAM G1 TEAM H1 ROUND 13 TEAM H2 TEAM F2 ROUND 13 TEAM I2 TEAM E2 ROUND 13 TEAM J2 TEAM D2 ROUND 13 TEAM K2 TEAM G2 ROUND 14 TEAM A2 TEAM D1 ROUND 14 TEAM B2 TEAM C1 ROUND 14 TEAM C2 TEAM B1 ROUND 14 TEAM D2 TEAM A1 ROUND 14 TEAM E2 TEAM J2 ROUND 14 TEAM F2 TEAM I2 ROUND 14 TEAM G2 TEAM H2 ROUND 14 TEAM H1 TEAM K2 ROUND 14 TEAM I1 TEAM G1 ROUND 14 TEAM J1 TEAM F1 ROUND 14 TEAM K1 TEAM E1 ROUND 15 TEAM A1 TEAM E2 ROUND 15 TEAM B1 TEAM D2 ROUND 15 TEAM C1 TEAM C2 ROUND 15 TEAM D1 TEAM B2 ROUND 15 TEAM E1 TEAM A2 ROUND 15 TEAM F1 TEAM K1 ROUND 15 TEAM G1 TEAM J1 ROUND 15 TEAM H1 TEAM I1 ROUND 15 TEAM I2 TEAM G2 ROUND 15 TEAM J2 TEAM F2 ROUND 15 TEAM K2 TEAM H2 ROUND 16 TEAM A2 TEAM F1 ROUND 16 TEAM B2 TEAM E1 ROUND 16 TEAM C2 TEAM D1 ROUND 16 TEAM D2 TEAM C1 ROUND 16 TEAM E2 TEAM B1 ROUND 16 TEAM F2 TEAM A1 ROUND 16 TEAM G2 TEAM J2 ROUND 16 TEAM H2 TEAM I2 ROUND 16 TEAM I1 TEAM K2 ROUND 16 TEAM J1 TEAM H1 ROUND 16 TEAM K1 TEAM G1 ROUND 17 TEAM A1 TEAM G2 ROUND 17 TEAM B1 TEAM F2 ROUND 17 TEAM C1 TEAM E2 ROUND 17 TEAM D1 TEAM D2 ROUND 17 TEAM E1 TEAM C2 ROUND 17 TEAM F1 TEAM B2 ROUND 17 TEAM G1 TEAM A2 ROUND 17 TEAM H1 TEAM K1 ROUND 17 TEAM I1 TEAM J1 ROUND 17 TEAM J2 TEAM H2 ROUND 17 TEAM K2 TEAM I2 ROUND 18 TEAM A2 TEAM H1 ROUND 18 TEAM B2 TEAM G1 ROUND 18 TEAM C2 TEAM F1 ROUND 18 TEAM D2 TEAM E1 ROUND 18 TEAM E2 TEAM D1 ROUND 18 TEAM F2 TEAM C1 ROUND 18 TEAM G2 TEAM B1 ROUND 18 TEAM H2 TEAM A1 ROUND 18 TEAM I2 TEAM J2 ROUND 18 TEAM J1 TEAM K2 ROUND 18 TEAM K1 TEAM I1 ROUND 19 TEAM A1 TEAM I2 ROUND 19 TEAM B1 TEAM H2 ROUND 19 TEAM C1 TEAM G2 ROUND 19 TEAM D1 TEAM F2 ROUND 19 TEAM E1 TEAM E2 ROUND 19 TEAM F1 TEAM D2 ROUND 19 TEAM G1 TEAM C2 ROUND 19 TEAM H1 TEAM B2 ROUND 19 TEAM I1 TEAM A2 ROUND 19 TEAM J1 TEAM K1 ROUND 19 TEAM K2 TEAM J2 ROUND 20 TEAM A2 TEAM J1 ROUND 20 TEAM B2 TEAM I1 ROUND 20 TEAM C2 TEAM H1 ROUND 20 TEAM D2 TEAM G1 ROUND 20 TEAM E2 TEAM F1 ROUND 20 TEAM F2 TEAM E1 ROUND 20 TEAM G2 TEAM D1 ROUND 20 TEAM H2 TEAM C1 ROUND 20 TEAM I2 TEAM B1 ROUND 20 TEAM J2 TEAM A1 ROUND 20 TEAM K1 TEAM K2 ROUND 21 TEAM A1 TEAM K2 ROUND 21 TEAM B1 TEAM J2 ROUND 21 TEAM C1 TEAM I2 ROUND 21 TEAM D1 TEAM H2 ROUND 21 TEAM E1 TEAM G2 ROUND 21 TEAM F1 TEAM F2 ROUND 21 TEAM G1 TEAM E2 ROUND 21 TEAM H1 TEAM D2 ROUND 21 TEAM I1 TEAM C2 ROUND 21 TEAM J1 TEAM B2 ROUND 21 TEAM K1 TEAM A2 ROUND 22 TEAM A2 TEAM K1 ROUND 22 TEAM B2 TEAM J1 ROUND 22 TEAM C2 TEAM I1 ROUND 22 TEAM D2 TEAM H1 ROUND 22 TEAM E2 TEAM G1 ROUND 22 TEAM F2 TEAM F1 ROUND 22 TEAM G2 TEAM E1 ROUND 22 TEAM H2 TEAM D1 ROUND 22 TEAM I2 TEAM C1 ROUND 22 TEAM J2 TEAM B1 ROUND 22 TEAM K2 TEAM A1 ROUND 23 TEAM A2 TEAM K2 ROUND 23 TEAM B1 TEAM A1 ROUND 23 TEAM C1 TEAM J2 ROUND 23 TEAM D1 TEAM I2 ROUND 23 TEAM E1 TEAM H2 ROUND 23 TEAM F1 TEAM G2 ROUND 23 TEAM G1 TEAM F2 ROUND 23 TEAM H1 TEAM E2 ROUND 23 TEAM I1 TEAM D2 ROUND 23 TEAM J1 TEAM C2 ROUND 23 TEAM K1 TEAM B2 ROUND 24 TEAM A1 TEAM C1 ROUND 24 TEAM B2 TEAM A2 ROUND 24 TEAM C2 TEAM K1 ROUND 24 TEAM D2 TEAM J1 ROUND 24 TEAM E2 TEAM I1 ROUND 24 TEAM F2 TEAM H1 ROUND 24 TEAM G2 TEAM G1 ROUND 24 TEAM H2 TEAM F1 ROUND 24 TEAM I2 TEAM E1 ROUND 24 TEAM J2 TEAM D1 ROUND 24 TEAM K2 TEAM B1 ROUND 25 TEAM A2 TEAM C2 ROUND 25 TEAM B2 TEAM K2 ROUND 25 TEAM C1 TEAM B1 ROUND 25 TEAM D1 TEAM A1 ROUND 25 TEAM E1 TEAM J2 ROUND 25 TEAM F1 TEAM I2 ROUND 25 TEAM G1 TEAM H2 ROUND 25 TEAM H1 TEAM G2 ROUND 25 TEAM I1 TEAM F2 ROUND 25 TEAM J1 TEAM E2 ROUND 25 TEAM K1 TEAM D2 ROUND 26 TEAM A1 TEAM E1 ROUND 26 TEAM B1 TEAM D1 ROUND 26 TEAM C2 TEAM B2 ROUND 26 TEAM D2 TEAM A2 ROUND 26 TEAM E2 TEAM K1 ROUND 26 TEAM F2 TEAM J1 ROUND 26 TEAM G2 TEAM I1 ROUND 26 TEAM H2 TEAM H1 ROUND 26 TEAM I2 TEAM G1 ROUND 26 TEAM J2 TEAM F1 ROUND 26 TEAM K2 TEAM C1 ROUND 27 TEAM A2 TEAM E2 ROUND 27 TEAM B2 TEAM D2 ROUND 27 TEAM C2 TEAM K2 ROUND 27 TEAM D1 TEAM C1 ROUND 27 TEAM E1 TEAM B1 ROUND 27 TEAM F1 TEAM A1 ROUND 27 TEAM G1 TEAM J2 ROUND 27 TEAM H1 TEAM I2 ROUND 27 TEAM I1 TEAM H2 ROUND 27 TEAM J1 TEAM G2 ROUND 27 TEAM K1 TEAM F2 ROUND 28 TEAM A1 TEAM G1 ROUND 28 TEAM B1 TEAM F1 ROUND 28 TEAM C1 TEAM E1 ROUND 28 TEAM D2 TEAM C2 ROUND 28 TEAM E2 TEAM B2 ROUND 28 TEAM F2 TEAM A2 ROUND 28 TEAM G2 TEAM K1 ROUND 28 TEAM H2 TEAM J1 ROUND 28 TEAM I2 TEAM I1 ROUND 28 TEAM J2 TEAM H1 ROUND 28 TEAM K2 TEAM D1 ROUND 29 TEAM A2 TEAM G2 ROUND 29 TEAM B2 TEAM F2 ROUND 29 TEAM C2 TEAM E2 ROUND 29 TEAM D2 TEAM K2 ROUND 29 TEAM E1 TEAM D1 ROUND 29 TEAM F1 TEAM C1 ROUND 29 TEAM G1 TEAM B1 ROUND 29 TEAM H1 TEAM A1 ROUND 29 TEAM I1 TEAM J2 ROUND 29 TEAM J1 TEAM I2 ROUND 29 TEAM K1 TEAM H2 ROUND 30 TEAM A1 TEAM I1 ROUND 30 TEAM B1 TEAM H1 ROUND 30 TEAM C1 TEAM G1 ROUND 30 TEAM D1 TEAM F1 ROUND 30 TEAM E2 TEAM D2 ROUND 30 TEAM F2 TEAM C2 ROUND 30 TEAM G2 TEAM B2 ROUND 30 TEAM H2 TEAM A2 ROUND 30 TEAM I2 TEAM K1 ROUND 30 TEAM J2 TEAM J1 ROUND 30 TEAM K2 TEAM E1 ROUND 31 TEAM A2 TEAM I2 ROUND 31 TEAM B2 TEAM H2 ROUND 31 TEAM C2 TEAM G2 ROUND 31 TEAM D2 TEAM F2 ROUND 31 TEAM E2 TEAM K2 ROUND 31 TEAM F1 TEAM E1 ROUND 31 TEAM G1 TEAM D1 ROUND 31 TEAM H1 TEAM C1 ROUND 31 TEAM I1 TEAM B1 ROUND 31 TEAM J1 TEAM A1 ROUND 31 TEAM K1 TEAM J2 ROUND 32 TEAM A1 TEAM K1 ROUND 32 TEAM B1 TEAM J1 ROUND 32 TEAM C1 TEAM I1 ROUND 32 TEAM D1 TEAM H1 ROUND 32 TEAM E1 TEAM G1 ROUND 32 TEAM F2 TEAM E2 ROUND 32 TEAM G2 TEAM D2 ROUND 32 TEAM H2 TEAM C2 ROUND 32 TEAM I2 TEAM B2 ROUND 32 TEAM J2 TEAM A2 ROUND 32 TEAM K2 TEAM F1 ROUND 33 TEAM A2 TEAM A1 ROUND 33 TEAM B2 TEAM J2 ROUND 33 TEAM C2 TEAM I2 ROUND 33 TEAM D2 TEAM H2 ROUND 33 TEAM E2 TEAM G2 ROUND 33 TEAM F2 TEAM K2 ROUND 33 TEAM G1 TEAM F1 ROUND 33 TEAM H1 TEAM E1 ROUND 33 TEAM I1 TEAM D1 ROUND 33 TEAM J1 TEAM C1 ROUND 33 TEAM K1 TEAM B1 ROUND 34 TEAM A1 TEAM B2 ROUND 34 TEAM B1 TEAM A2 ROUND 34 TEAM C1 TEAM K1 ROUND 34 TEAM D1 TEAM J1 ROUND 34 TEAM E1 TEAM I1 ROUND 34 TEAM F1 TEAM H1 ROUND 34 TEAM G2 TEAM F2 ROUND 34 TEAM H2 TEAM E2 ROUND 34 TEAM I2 TEAM D2 ROUND 34 TEAM J2 TEAM C2 ROUND 34 TEAM K2 TEAM G1 ROUND 35 TEAM A2 TEAM C1 ROUND 35 TEAM B2 TEAM B1 ROUND 35 TEAM C2 TEAM A1 ROUND 35 TEAM D2 TEAM J2 ROUND 35 TEAM E2 TEAM I2 ROUND 35 TEAM F2 TEAM H2 ROUND 35 TEAM G2 TEAM K2 ROUND 35 TEAM H1 TEAM G1 ROUND 35 TEAM I1 TEAM F1 ROUND 35 TEAM J1 TEAM E1 ROUND 35 TEAM K1 TEAM D1 ROUND 36 TEAM A1 TEAM D2 ROUND 36 TEAM B1 TEAM C2 ROUND 36 TEAM C1 TEAM B2 ROUND 36 TEAM D1 TEAM A2 ROUND 36 TEAM E1 TEAM K1 ROUND 36 TEAM F1 TEAM J1 ROUND 36 TEAM G1 TEAM I1 ROUND 36 TEAM H2 TEAM G2 ROUND 36 TEAM I2 TEAM F2 ROUND 36 TEAM J2 TEAM E2 ROUND 36 TEAM K2 TEAM H1 ROUND 37 TEAM A2 TEAM E1 ROUND 37 TEAM B2 TEAM D1 ROUND 37 TEAM C2 TEAM C1 ROUND 37 TEAM D2 TEAM B1 ROUND 37 TEAM E2 TEAM A1 ROUND 37 TEAM F2 TEAM J2 ROUND 37 TEAM G2 TEAM I2 ROUND 37 TEAM H2 TEAM K2 ROUND 37 TEAM I1 TEAM H1 ROUND 37 TEAM J1 TEAM G1 ROUND 37 TEAM K1 TEAM F1 ROUND 38 TEAM A1 TEAM F2 ROUND 38 TEAM B1 TEAM E2 ROUND 38 TEAM C1 TEAM D2 ROUND 38 TEAM D1 TEAM C2 ROUND 38 TEAM E1 TEAM B2 ROUND 38 TEAM F1 TEAM A2 ROUND 38 TEAM G1 TEAM K1 ROUND 38 TEAM H1 TEAM J1 ROUND 38 TEAM I2 TEAM H2 ROUND 38 TEAM J2 TEAM G2 ROUND 38 TEAM K2 TEAM I1 ROUND 39 TEAM A2 TEAM G1 ROUND 39 TEAM B2 TEAM F1 ROUND 39 TEAM C2 TEAM E1 ROUND 39 TEAM D2 TEAM D1 ROUND 39 TEAM E2 TEAM C1 ROUND 39 TEAM F2 TEAM B1 ROUND 39 TEAM G2 TEAM A1 ROUND 39 TEAM H2 TEAM J2 ROUND 39 TEAM I2 TEAM K2 ROUND 39 TEAM J1 TEAM I1 ROUND 39 TEAM K1 TEAM H1 ROUND 40 TEAM A1 TEAM H2 ROUND 40 TEAM B1 TEAM G2 ROUND 40 TEAM C1 TEAM F2 ROUND 40 TEAM D1 TEAM E2 ROUND 40 TEAM E1 TEAM D2 ROUND 40 TEAM F1 TEAM C2 ROUND 40 TEAM G1 TEAM B2 ROUND 40 TEAM H1 TEAM A2 ROUND 40 TEAM I1 TEAM K1 ROUND 40 TEAM J2 TEAM I2 ROUND 40 TEAM K2 TEAM J1 ROUND 41 TEAM A2 TEAM I1 ROUND 41 TEAM B2 TEAM H1 ROUND 41 TEAM C2 TEAM G1 ROUND 41 TEAM D2 TEAM F1 ROUND 41 TEAM E2 TEAM E1 ROUND 41 TEAM F2 TEAM D1 ROUND 41 TEAM G2 TEAM C1 ROUND 41 TEAM H2 TEAM B1 ROUND 41 TEAM I2 TEAM A1 ROUND 41 TEAM J2 TEAM K2 ROUND 41 TEAM K1 TEAM J1 ROUND 42 TEAM A1 TEAM J2 ROUND 42 TEAM B1 TEAM I2 ROUND 42 TEAM C1 TEAM H2 ROUND 42 TEAM D1 TEAM G2 ROUND 42 TEAM E1 TEAM F2 ROUND 42 TEAM F1 TEAM E2 ROUND 42 TEAM G1 TEAM D2 ROUND 42 TEAM H1 TEAM C2 ROUND 42 TEAM I1 TEAM B2 ROUND 42 TEAM J1 TEAM A2 ROUND 42 TEAM K2 TEAM K1
Absolutely brilliant. Just started a pool league. Priceless. Thank you.
Derek
Hi Thomas
I can only say thank you for everything.
Greetings
GOOD MORNING,
I AM WONDERING IF YOU ARE ABLE TO ASSIST IN PROVIDING INFORMATION ON HOW TO DO DRAWS FOR THE FOLLOWING YOUNG SOOCER/FOOTBALL PLAYERS :
OUR FIXTURES ARE 18 rounds -
Total of 3 clubs, Club 1 - 3 age groups, Club 2 - 4 age groups, Club 3 - 3 age groups.
Club 1 (A6 - 2 teams) - HOME & AWAY THIS AGE GROUP
Club 2 (A6 - 7 teams)
Club 3 (A6 - 5 teams)
Club 2 (AA6 - 8 teams) - HOME GAMES ONLY
Club 1 (B7 - 3 teams) - HOME & AWAY GAMES THIS AGE GROUP
Club 2 (B7 - 12 teams)
Club 3 (B7 - 6 teams)
Club 1 (C8 - 8 teams) - HOME & AWAY GAMES THIS AGE GROUP
Club 2 (C8 - 2 teams)
Club 3 (C8 - 4 teams)
Any help or information would be greatly appreciated. If you requrie further information please advise.
Regards,
Jodie - Secretary for local soccer/football club
my email client is not set to default to email you directly thru yr website so pls reply to me at squash@labrador squash.com
I have a squash centre with 8 courts and I need to do a draw for ten teams each week WITH TWO TEAMS on a bye each wek (we have 8 courts and each 2 teams playing each other use 2 courts) ie. 2 teams on 2 courts
I need to do a draw whereby two teams each week take it in turn to sit out.
Can you help?? Either by a 12 draw with 2 byes or something like that.
Thanks. Jo
Jo,
I have sent you a solution to your email address. Please let me know if you don’t receive it-
Wow, this has saved me a lot of time and effort on a new project, thanks for sharing.
Fanstastic stuff. Is there any way of converting your Java code into VB?
“Is there any way of converting your Java code into VB?” You mean automatically? Not that I know of.
It should not be much work to convert the Java by hand, convert the PHP by hand (source code link above) or you could write the VB prog from this algorithm description:
Hi Thomas. What a fast reponder you are!!! I can’t get your link to work. Maybe it’s my Internet settings. I’ll have a fiddle. Perhaps you could confirm that it’s still a live URL.
Ignore my last message……..I googled barrychessclub and got straight to it. What a dummy!!!! Must learn how to use a computer!!!! Much respect.
Im trying to create a 11 team comp. All teams will only play each other 1. I have treid all sorts of ways to make this happen but end up with on combination that doesnt fit,
Can anybody help
Cheers
Steve R
Steve - you can just use the first half of the season generated by the program above, no?
Hi Thomas,
Thanks mate it was early in the moring Aussie time and once I had a good look at the fixture generator it soved all my problems. What a great program,
Cheers
Steve R
please could you help me in sorting a formula out for us.
14 teams to play on same night 5 teams share same table.
For instance 1&2, 3&4, 5&14, 6&8, 10&11,
7, 9, 12, 13 have only one team that does not share a table can you help please.
I found what I was looking for from one of your messages but struggled to use the Generator for my 3 divisions of 8 Quoits teams in each, many pubs with 2 teams in. Do you have a program to generate league tables if results are inputted. I had one 30 years ago at University!!! Thanks for your help, Richard
Hi,
Could someone e-mail me the original algorithm description as the link at http://www.barrychessclub.org.uk/berger2001.htm seems to be down
thanks
Hi Paul
His new address is above
Hi,
I’m hoping someone can help, we have a Summer Pool League starting in May. We have 2 Divisions of 17 teams, but each team only plays the other once. There are 10 venues with 2 teams which will need to be alternated.
Thanks
Hi again
Got it sorted
Many thanks
Jason,
as I understand it you have two divisions with 17 teams in each division. There are 10 tables which each is used by 2 teams, which means that 20 teams totally are involved in table-sharing, and each of the remaining 14 teams does not share its table with any other team. Have I understood you correctly this far? If so, let’s call the divisions 1 and 2, shall we. How many teams in division 1 share table with an other division 1 team, and how many division 1 teams share table with a division 2 team? If you answer these questions, I can probably help you creating fixtures for your summer tournament.
Jason,
OK, your last message arrived while I was reading your first message and writing my reply. Guess you don’t need my help then.
iam running a darts league with 24 players i need to do a league so they play each other can you help
Ian,
do the players play against each other once or twice during the season? Is home and away an issue?
When I get the answer to these questions I can help you creating fixtures for your league.
You can reach me at fixtures “at” runbox.no
Hi Folks,
I am not a php coder unfortunately so I was wondering if someone had a little time to help me out,
I need to output the fixtures to a database table, the table has 2 fields and is a MySQL table.
The fields are HomeTeam & AwayTeam (ok no points for originality here ) and the table is called not suprisingly “Fixtures”
I don’t need team names I just need the values in the table, of cause the fixtures will have to be home and away as in Tom’s code
If any help if forthcoming I would be eternally greatful and of cause would give the author credit on my site.
Thanks
you can e-mail me at backupman(no spam)@hotmail.com {please remove the no spam to e-mail me} but I think there may be a few people that need this info so posting it on this thread would be helpful I think.
Hi Folks,
Just thinking out aloud here and there may well be problems with the idea so please bear with me….
for those of you who have an uneven number of teams in your divisions e.g.
Div 1 = 12 teams
Div 2 = 14 teams
Div 3 = 14 teams
Div 4 = 12 teams
or whatever your combination is.
Why not just add say 2 byes to div 1 and 2 byes to div 4 thus giving you 14 teams in each division.
The reasoning being you want all the divisions to start and finish at the same time for promotion and relegation issues to be clear and also a mathematical formula is often much more robust and easy to create if it is to be used on a constant rather than a variable.
Doing it this way then opens up greater possibilities for ensuring multiple teams accross multiple divisions don’t all play at home on the same day when limited pitches/tables/courts etc is a factor as the maths behind the solution will be able to treat the problem as a combined whole division rather than seperate divisions
I will code a solution to this and as such will probably answer the questions posed herein myself one way or the other but it does seem a reasonable hypothosis.
Comments?
Hi,
I wonder if you could help me. I’ running a summer skittles league for the first time and have been trying to compile the fixures and i’m getting nowhere fast. There are 13 teams who play each other once at the same venue. The league needs to be spread over 8 weeks playing 4 nights a week and with no team playing more than one night a week.
Looking forward to your response
Many Thanks John
To Johnny Hill.
Interesting problem. In order to solve it, I need answers to these questions:
1) How many games can one team play during one night? (With 8 weeks and only one night per week, a team will play exactly 1.5 games each night it plays (in average).
2) How many games can be played in total on one single night? (The average is 2.44 games per night).
3) Does each team has to play each week? (Or would it be possible that a team plays for instance 3 games one week, two games the next, and then has a week off?)
4) Is it necessary that each week shall have 4 nights of games? (Or is it OK that some weeks for instance have only 3 nights of games?)
If you can give me the answers to these questions, I will have a go at it. (But no promise of a successfull outcome!)
Hi,
Slight change of plan there are now 14 teams. In answer to your questions.
1. The minimum is 1 game the max is 3 games each team can play per night.
2. The
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