Scheduling the Valley Baseball League

Elizabeth L. Bouzarth (), Benjamin C. Grannan (), John M. Harris () and Kevin R. Hutson ()
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Elizabeth L. Bouzarth: Department of Mathematics, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina 29613
Benjamin C. Grannan: Department of Business and Accounting, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina 29613
John M. Harris: Department of Mathematics, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina 29613
Kevin R. Hutson: Department of Mathematics, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina 29613

Interfaces, 2022, vol. 52, issue 2, 189-197

Abstract: The Valley Baseball League is a collegiate summer baseball league with 11 teams playing 42 games between June and August. Producing a schedule has proved challenging for league management, because of the odd number of teams as well as a large number of league mandates and team-specific requests. As an amateur league with limited financial resources, there is pressure to best leverage the league schedule to maximize revenue for each team. A schedule generated by mathematical programming was enthusiastically adopted for the 2020 season and significantly outperformed previous manually produced schedules.

Keywords: sports scheduling; binary linear programming; prescriptive analytics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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