From: Dave Howell <groups+2006@...>
Date: 2006-08-31T07:14:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Pairs tournament algorithm


On Aug 30, 2006, at 4:40, Eduardo Y瘻ez Parareda wrote:

>> You say 'an algorithm' like it's calculating something...  I think you
>> just mean a  system to chart the progress, no?
>
> No, I mean 'something' that make pairs of teams to make a tournament
> calendar.
> Well, I know it isn't easy, I wanted to do it dynamic but finally I
> think it's better to do some lookup tables with the fixtures will be
> played for 4 teams, 6 teams, 8 teams and so on.

Somebody else was looking for something like this a month or three ago, 
and we had a number of people propose algorithms. I'd say search the 
maillist archives for "tournament".