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Highly constrained college basketball scheduling

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  • T Van Voorhis

    (Iowa State University, Ames)

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In intercollegiate athletics, conference basketball schedules must satisfy several criteria to be acceptably fair to each team. Scheduling is often further complicated by building conflicts and agreements regarding televised games. Although these requirements make it tedious to develop feasible schedules by hand; they can readily be modelled as constraints in an integer programming formulation. Software has been developed that finds multiple feasible solutions to this integer program, where each solution corresponds to an acceptable schedule. By generating multiple schedules in a short period of time, the software allows conference personnel to quickly evaluate different scheduling scenarios (eg different TV games) and consider several alternatives. Thus, the software makes an important contribution to finding the most attractive schedule possible.

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  • T Van Voorhis, 2002. "Highly constrained college basketball scheduling," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 53(6), pages 603-609, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:jorsoc:v:53:y:2002:i:6:d:10.1057_palgrave.jors.2601356
    DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601356
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    1. M B Wright, 2009. "50 years of OR in sport," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 60(1), pages 161-168, May.
    2. Mancini Simona & Isabello Andrea, 2014. "Fair referee assignment for the Italian soccer serieA," Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, De Gruyter, vol. 10(2), pages 153-160, June.
    3. Simona Mancini, 2018. "Assignment of swimmers to events in a multi-team meeting for team global performance optimization," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 264(1), pages 325-337, May.

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