Every sport needs rules. Tournament design refers to the rules that determine how a
tournament, a series of games between a number of competitors, is organized. This study …

Sports have worldwide appeal. Professional sport leagues involve significant investments in
players. Events such as the Olympics Games, the Football World Cup and the major golf and …

Benders decomposition uses a strategy of``learning from one's mistakes.''The aim of this
paper is to extend this strategy to a much larger class of problems. The key is to generalize …

This paper presents a comprehensive survey on the literature considering round robin
tournaments. The terminology used within the area has been modified over time and today it …

Sports timetabling problems are combinatorial optimization problems which consist of
creating a timetable that defines against whom, when, and where teams play games. In the …

Sports scheduling problems mainly consist in determining the date and the venue in which
each game of a tournament will be played. Integer programming, constraint programming …

Abstract The Traveling Tournament Problem (TTP) is a combinatorial problem that combines
features from the traveling salesman problem and the tournament scheduling problem. We …

This paper reviews about 50 years of activity in OR as applied to sports. After some history
and an overview, including discussions of what we mean by sport and what we mean by OR …

Logic-based Benders decomposition (LBBD) is a substantial generalization of classical
Benders decomposition that, in principle, allows the subproblem to be any optimization …

In this paper, we present a solution method for the highly constrained problem of finding a
seasonal schedule for the best Danish soccer league. The league differs from most sports …