We study a sports scheduling problem where the entire fixture of a soccer season in Turkey must be scheduled by taking into account a variety of constraints. We model the problem as an integer program; because of the computational intractability, we develop a heuristic algorithm for obtaining a suboptimal solution. Differing from the earlier models, our model minimizes the assignment of matches where a team plays against strong teams consecutively. We compare the performance of our heuristic against the existing solution and demonstrate numerically that our heuristic performs significantly better than the current solution.
Operations Research
A novel integer programming model for the fixture schedule of Turkish professional soccer league
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