Scheduling Softball Series in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference

Marjorie Cone Saur (), Kaleigh Starr (), Mark Husted () and Alexandra M. Newman ()
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Marjorie Cone Saur: Rio Tinto Kennecott Utah Copper
Kaleigh Starr: Division of Economics and Business, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401
Mark Husted: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401
Alexandra M. Newman: Division of Economics and Business, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401

Interfaces, 2012, vol. 42, issue 3, 296-309

Abstract: The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference is a Division II National Collegiate Athletic Association conference that offers, inter alia, women's softball. Within the conference, four-game series are played against every other conference team according to a temporally constrained schedule. Manually generated schedules result in imbalances, such as breaks of multiple home or away series and away-series season openers and closers for the same team, and fail to mitigate weather-related series disruptions. Our integer-programming–based schedules eliminate these problems while ensuring that all requisite series are played. In this paper, we present a 40-game schedule; we do not present 36- and 44-game schedules, which are nearly equivalent. For its 2011 softball season, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference adopted the 40-game schedule from these three schedules.

Keywords: scheduling; sports applications; integer programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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