Scheduling the Australian Football League

Jari Kyngäs, Kimmo Nurmi, Nico Kyngäs, George Lilley, Thea Salter and Dries Goossens ()
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Jari Kyngäs: Satakunta University of Applied Sciences
Kimmo Nurmi: Satakunta University of Applied Sciences
Nico Kyngäs: Satakunta University of Applied Sciences
George Lilley: Box Hill Senior Secondary College
Thea Salter: AFL House
Dries Goossens: Ghent University

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2017, vol. 68, issue 8, 973-982

Abstract: Abstract Generating a schedule for a professional sports league is an extremely demanding task. Good schedules have many benefits for the league, such as higher attendance and TV viewership, lower costs and increased fairness. The Australian Football League is particularly interesting because of an unusual competition format integrating a single round-robin tournament with additional games. Furthermore, several teams have multiple home venues and some venues are shared by multiple teams. This paper presents a 3-phase process to schedule the Australian Football League. The resulting solution outperforms the official schedule with respect to minimizing and balancing travel distance and breaks, while satisfying more requirements.

Keywords: sports; timetabling; multiple venues; travel distance; heuristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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