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Optimal Sports League Realignment

  • Nathan Brixius
    • Categories (Mixed) Integer Linear Programming, (Mixed) Integer Nonlinear Programming, Applications - OR and Management Sciences Tags , ,

    We consider approaches for optimally organizing competitive sports leagues in light of competitive and logistical considerations. A common objective is to assign teams to divisions so that intradivisional travel is minimized. We present a bilinear programming formulation based on k-way equipartitioning, and show how this formulation can be extended to account for additional constraints and … Read more

    Heuristics for the mirrored traveling tournament problem

  • Celso C. Ribeiro
  • Sebastián Urrutia
    • Categories Meta Heuristics, Scheduling Tags , , , ,

    Professional sports leagues are a major economic activity around the world. Teams and leagues do not want to waste their investments in players and structure in consequence of poor schedules of games.Game scheduling is a difficult task, involving several decision makers, different types of constraints, and multiple objectives to optimize. The Traveling Tournament Problem abstracts … Read more