SchedulOpt® took minutes to do what used to take us hours of frustrating work on spreadsheets. The schedule was perfect, fair, and ready to publish immediately. It’s been a total game-changer for our league.
- League Coordinator
Use Case
A local youth soccer league needed to schedule a single round-robin tournament for 8 teams, ensuring each team played once each weekend with a fair and balanced fixture across limited dates.
The Challenges
- Round-Robin tournament structure required
- Preventing duplicate matchups by ensuring each team will play each other just once
- Home and Away balance requires at least 3 Home games and no more than 4
- The teams need to alternate between Home and Away games as much as possible
- Ensuring all 28 matches fit into 7 weekends
- Keeping the schedule easy to follow and publish
The SchedulOpt® Solution
With SchedulOpt®’s Single Comp platform, the tournament setup took just minutes:
Step 1 - Team SetupAll 8 teams were entered into the platform:
- Maplewood Falcons
- Eastside Eagles
- Riverbend Rovers
- Northhill Strikers
- Brookside Blazers
- Lakeside Lightning
- Westfield Warriors
- Sunnyvale Storm
Step 2 - Date Setup7 weekend dates were added - one for each round of the round-robin.
Step 3 - Tournament ConfigurationIn the Tournament module:
- Type: Round-Robin
- Number of times each team plays every opponent: 1 (Single Round-Robin)
Step 4 - Home & Away RulesThe following rules were used to ensure schedule fairness for all teams:
- Home-Away Balance: Each team could have at most a 3-4 or 4-3 Home/Away split
- Home-Away Repeated: No more than 3 consecutive Home or Away games allowed
The Result: A Perfect Season, Delivered Instantly
SchedulOpt® transformed this difficult manual task into a smooth automated process.
- The resulting schedule was superior to the manual versions
- 100% Complete Schedule: All 28 matches were perfectly placed across the 7 weeks
- Guarenteed Fairness: Bias in Home Team advantage was mitigated by ensuring the Home and Away scheduls were well balanced.
- The resulting schedule was superior to the manual versions
- Professional & Clear: The entire scheduling process, including data entry, rules management and the scheduling ruin was completed within the hour.
