A Decision Support System for Scheduling the Canadian Football League

Kent J. Kostuk () and Keith A. Willoughby ()
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Kent J. Kostuk: Federated Co-operatives Limited, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 3M9, Canada
Keith A. Willoughby: Department of Finance and Management Science, Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5A7, Canada

Interfaces, 2012, vol. 42, issue 3, 286-295

Abstract: The eight-team Canadian Football League (CFL) features an 18-game regular season played between late June and early November. The regular-season schedule is manually created using an iterative process involving league management, teams, and a television sports broadcaster. We developed a mixed-integer program-driven decision support system that provided league officials with multiple schedule versions relatively quickly. Our approach informed the development of the regular-season schedule by offering league management a neighborhood of potentially solid solutions. We demonstrated the impact of specific schedule requests to decision makers. Such sensitivity analysis was impossible under the previous manual creation method.

Keywords: decision support; optimization; OR practice; scheduling; sports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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