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USE OF PARTIAL ROUND ROBIN SCHEDULES

The partial round robin schedules have been divided so that they fall into
two playing units. The natural mathematical unit has been set off by solid lines.
Through using this spacing every team in the even number leagues can play every
day. The other division is shown by the dotted line. This is a four game unit
and provides about the same rest periods for all teams. Most of the schedules
may be played in smaller units as shown in the illustrated schedule for ten teams.

Five game partial round robin tournament for ten teams

Units as shown in partial Same schedule broken into smaller
round robin schedules playing units
Four game unit Natural Unit Two game unit Three game unit
Team numbers Team numbers Team numbers
2-10 1-10. tat day cae Vee
tet day << 2-9 a-9 o-7 ist day
7 O78. 4eE day 3-6. 2nd 23
° h- = 7 Ao]
5-6 5-6 3rd 5-6. 2nd
end day 1-9 | ae i
10-8 10-8. Ath ASS
e-i ene Gay eo] eo] oo Ord
2-6 3-6 5th 3-6
3rd day 4-5 L-5 L=5
1-8 1-8 6th iS 4th
a1 8-7 7
“10-6 . 3rd. day 10-6 7th 10-6
Ath day 2-5 oo 2. Sth
ack ga Bt Sh
it acy Le
8-6 8-6 9th 8-6 © 6th
pu day. 9-5 - gth day 23 =>
10-5 LO LOth 10-4
: a a3 eo th
1-6 1-6 llth 1-6
6th day 7-5 tao 1)
$=. > Son dey - Sh -12th 67h 6th
ye 9-3 9-3
7th day 10-2 10h, 2obn poe on

Schedules drawn for leagues composed of an odd number of teams, 7, 9, ll,
etc. are drawn up by a different method so that in some cases the natural unit
is smaller than the four game unit. It is impossible to draw partial round robin
schedules for an odd number of games and an odd number of teams. For example, you
cannot play 5 games each in a 7 team league, but you can play 5 games each in a
6 team league. For this reason only schedules for an even number of teams are
Shown in the odd number of game tournaments.