Tight bounds for break minimization in tournament scheduling

Andries E. Brouwer, Gerhard F. Post, Gerhard Woeginger

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Abstract

We consider round-robin sports tournaments with $n$ teams and $n-1$ rounds. We construct an infinite family of opponent schedules for which every home-away assignment induces at least $n(n-2)/4$ breaks. This construction establishes a matching lower bound for a corresponding upper bound from the literature.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1065-1068
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of combinatorial theory. Series A
Volume115
Issue numberSupplement/6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008

Keywords

  • break minimization
  • Sports scheduling
  • sports tournament
  • Latin squares

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