RE: 130-Team Conference, Scheduling Challenge
I mean, from a math perspective, a balanced schedule it's not "that hard."
You use some kind of initial system to rank everyone 1-130 and just draw a line every 11 schools to create tiers: 1-11 in Tier A, 12-22 Tier B, etc. Within each tier, everyone's ranked 1 to 11 already.
So chart it out: The #1 teams each tier play each other, the #2 teams play each other, etc. All the way down. Then you kind of manually adjust for geography as best you can. Just as long as everyone has one opponent from each tier.
Schedule Pod 1: Alabama, Iowa, LSU, Auburn, Tennessee, Arkansas, Tulane, Rice, Kent State, South Alabama, So Miss, Vandy
Schedule Pod 2; Clemson, UNC, Army, NC State, Kentucky, Va Tech, Maryland, Miami OH, Charlotte, Navy, South Carolina
Schedule Pod 4: Texas A&M, Texas, Utah, TCU, SMU, UTSA, La Tech, Texas Tech, North Texas, Baylor, Texas State
Schedule Pod 7: Oklahoma, Okla St, Indiana, UAB, Colorado, Air Force, Missouri, Fresno St, Colorado St, Illinois, UTEP, Kansas
You get the idea.
(This post was last modified: 04-04-2021 03:06 PM by JSchmack.)
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