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Post by tim914790 on Dec 12, 2014 9:21:02 GMT -6
Coaches,
We currently play in a 12 team conference where we play all 10 of our games in conference and miss one team for two consecutive years. There does not seem to be any rhyme or reason to who we miss each time the new two year schedule comes out. We have missed the same opponent 5 out of the last 8 years which seems more than just coincidental.
We want to create a 10 year schedule where everyone gets assigned a number 1-12 and the schedule is already set team 1 plays team 8, etc... for each week. Then you draw the number and that is what schedule you have. The opponent that you miss each year will become your week 1 opponent the following year and your week 10 opponent will drop off the schedule for a year.
We are running into an issue with trying to get the same number of home and away games for each year as this changes based on what the team played in week 10 of the previous year.
Is anyone aware of a program, website, existing template that would accomplish this? We want to present this to our Conference Administrator soon.
Thanks!
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Post by Chris Clement on Dec 13, 2014 1:31:39 GMT -6
What they're probably doing is making a new round-robin every year without considering the previous years and just omitting one week
There are schedule generators that work for free online, but roughly how I'd do it on paper is this:
Create a round-robin schedule, this will be the basis for the next 11 seasons, call it the 0 schedule
For each season use one week from the 0 schedule as the 0 week of that schedule, that will tell you who is NOT playing whom. Then you can fill in team A's schedule at random and then B's, and so on until you fill the schedule. If you have a consistently scheduled rivalry game like a thanksgiving matchup you should schedule those first.
If you have a whole slate of must-have Thanksgiving matchups and some games are neutral sites and some teams have no home field then just bite the bullet and spend $50 on the computer software. Hell, just do that right away and save yourself the hassle.
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