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 …

Many sports leagues organize their competitions as round‐robin tournaments. This
tournament design has a rich mathematical structure that has been studied in the literature …

In this work, we consider some basic sports scheduling problems and introduce the notions
of graph theory which are needed to build adequate models. We show, in particular, how …

This paper introduces the multi-league grou** and scheduling problem, which integrates
the grou** of teams into leagues and the scheduling of each league. This involves two …

Most sports associations regularly face the problem of determining and scheduling games
for dozens if not hundreds of non-professional (youth) teams. For practical reasons and …

We consider the simultaneous scheduling of multiple sport leagues, with interdependencies
arising from teams in different leagues belonging to the same club. Teams from the same …

Even for sports leagues with a small number of teams, the construction of a round-robin
timetable taking into account various constraints, eg, venue availability or travel distance …

Time-relaxed sports timetables utilize more time slots than minimally needed to schedule all
the games. We consider the decision problem whether a time-relaxed single round-robin …

This paper introduces a general multi-league sports scheduling problem where timetables
for multiple leagues must be determined simultaneously, a practical and challenging …

Round-robin sports timetables are commonly generated in two phases: determining when
teams play home and away, and when each team meets every other team. Depending on …