need a bocce schedule

April 29, 2007 2:50 PM

I need help establishing a bocce schedule for 31 teams to play 3 days a week on two courts in 3 time slots (9:30 am; 10:30 am & 11:30 am. James Nuti [e-mail]
posted by Sunrise Bay to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (4 answers total)

This seems like a good place to start
posted by rhizome at 3:03 PM on April 29, 2007

Do you have any parameters?
Is this like a tournament or like a league?
Do you want every team to play once a week?
Do you want every team to play every other team? Once? More than once?
What about the odd team?

It strikes me that the pairings are the problem. Once you get the pairings, you just drop them one-by-one into your time slots.

There are round-robin and single- or double-elimination pairings on the internets, but more info is needed.
posted by MtDewd at 3:44 PM on April 29, 2007

Response by poster: It is an informal league. Would like each team to play once a week against every other team at least once. The odd team will play against a blind score.
posted by Sunrise Bay at 10:05 PM on April 30, 2007

This page gives round robin pairings for any number of players. (If you put in an odd number, such as 31, it gives you pairings for one more - just treat team 32 as the blind score.)

As MtDewd says, once you have the set of pairings, you can just drop them arbitrarily into the slots you have, if there's no further restriction on which team plays when or anything like that.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 9:04 AM on May 1, 2007