The multi-league sports scheduling problem, or how to schedule thousands of matches

Morteza Davari; Dries Goossens; Jeroen Beliën; Roel Lambers; Frits C.R. Spieksma

doi:10.1016/j.orl.2020.02.004

The multi-league sports scheduling problem, or how to schedule thousands of matches

Morteza Davari, Dries Goossens, Jeroen Beliën, Roel Lambers (Corresponding author), Frits C.R. Spieksma

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Abstract

We consider the simultaneous scheduling of multiple sport leagues, with interdependencies arising from teams in different leagues belonging to the same club. Teams from the same club share the same venue with limited capacity. We minimize the total capacity violation in polynomial time when each league has the same, even number of teams. We introduce two generalizations: one where teams from a club have to play according to the same pattern, and one where club capacities differ throughout the season.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	180-187
Number of pages	8
Journal	Operations Research Letters
Volume	48
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2020.02.004
Publication status	Published - Mar 2020

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The research of Frits C.R. Spieksma was partly funded by the NWO, Netherlands Gravitation Project NETWORKS, Grant No. 024.002.003 .

Keywords

Home-away patterns
Multi-league sports scheduling
NP-hardness
Polynomial algorithms

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