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Scheduling Asynchronous Round-Robin Tournaments

Combinatorics 2018-04-19 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We study the problem of scheduling asynchronous round-robin tournaments. We consider three measures of a schedule that concern the quality and fairness of a tournament. We show that the schedule generated by the well-known "circle design" performs well with respect to all three measures when the number of teams is even, but not when the number of teams is odd. We propose a different schedule that performs optimally with respect to all measures when the number of teams is odd.

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@article{arxiv.1804.04504,
  title  = {Scheduling Asynchronous Round-Robin Tournaments},
  author = {Warut Suksompong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.04504},
  year   = {2018}
}
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