Sailing League Problems
Optimization and Control
2025-10-01 v3 Combinatorics
Abstract
We describe a class of combinatorial design problems which typically occur in professional sailing league competitions. We discuss connections to resolvable block designs and equitable coverings and to scheduling problems in operations research. We in particular give suitable boolean quadratic and integer linear optimization problem formulations, as well as further heuristics and restrictions, that can be used to solve sailing league problems in practice. We apply those techniques to three case studies obtained from real sailing leagues and compare the results with previously used tournament plans.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2212.02865,
title = {Sailing League Problems},
author = {Robert Schüler and Achill Schürmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.02865},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
22 pages, improved exposition, added additional references