sports scheduling

Comparing league formats from a business oriented view: the case of Argentina’s National Basketball League

  • Nicolas Garcia Aramouni
  • Juan José Miranda-Bront
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences Tags , , , ,

    During the last decades, the use of advanced optimization algorithms to generate sports timetables has caught the attention of both academics and practitioners. From a managerial standpoint, the competition’s structure and the design of the league’s schedule represent key strategic decisions with a direct impact in terms of revenue and other important indicators. Argentina’s National … Read more

    On the Complexity of the Traveling Umpire Problem

  • Lucas de Oliveira
  • Cid C. de Souza
  • Tallys H. Yunes
    • Categories Combinatorial Optimization, Other Topics, Scheduling Tags , ,

    The traveling umpire problem (TUP) consists of determining which games will be handled by each one of several umpire crews during a double round-robin tournament. The objective is to minimize the total distance traveled by the umpires, while respecting constraints that include visiting every team at home, and not seeing a team or venue too … Read more