Title :
Scheduling a triple round robin tournament for the finnish national ice hockey league for players under 20
Author :
Nurmi, Kimmo ; Kyngäs, Jari ; Goossens, Dries
Author_Institution :
Dept. of R&D, Satakunta Univ. of Appl. Sci., Pori, Finland
Abstract :
Generating a schedule for a sports league is an extremely demanding task. This paper presents a method to schedule the Finnish national ice hockey league for players aged under 20. The league plays a rare triple round robin tournament. To obtain a schedule, we sequentially solve four distinct combinatorial problems. The generated schedule is superior to the manual schedule used for the 2009-2010 season. We were able to find a feasible solution with only minor violations in one soft constraint.
Keywords :
combinatorial mathematics; scheduling; sport; Finnish national ice hockey league; combinatorial problems; scheduling; sports league; triple round robin tournament; Aging; Calendars; Games; Ice; Round robin; Schedules; Scheduling; minitournament; preassignment; scheduling; triple round robin;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (SCIS), 2011 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-195-3
DOI :
10.1109/SCIS.2011.5976545
